When Rihanna was on SNL recently I thought she was fabulous. My kids watched her performance with me and I joked with them that she was in tune, had a strong voice, filled the space with her voice and wasn’t “pitchy” at all. At our house this was an obvious slam reference to Katy Perry’s recent performance where she was just OFF! I personally had visions of Ashley Simpson. Ends up I don’t think Katy Perry will have the fall out that Ashley Simpson did. At least not with her junior fans. My kids were not impressed with my editorializing.
In fact my oldest turned it into a question of me – “If that’s what you’re seeing mom, where are you ‘out of tune’ or ‘off key’ in your own life?”
Direct hit. We’d spent some time earlier that day as part of an ongoing conversation on “the shadow”. Put in its simplest terms we notice things in the world around us that are merely projections of what is going on for us.
Each noticing is a chance to heal our own story, our own body, mind and spirit.
Since that time I’ve been pondering a lot. I’ve not put my finger on any one thing – yet have felt some definite shifts inside of me as I relate to the world and to myself. Possibly I have sanded off some rough edges. If all I got out of that was some inner fine tuning I feel blessed. And maybe it’s a bigger piece than I have yet discovered.
As we watch what’s going on in the world around us there are so many events and experiences of life that seem off-key. May we all feel the call to tune up our inner lives so that harmony is more available on this planet!
