At times – I do believe I am strong
So someone tell me why, why, why
Do I, I, I
feel
stupid?

(Matchbox Twenty, Mad Season)

*extended post…this is the mix CD I would have made today, if I could have made a mix CD today.*

Mad Season Matchbox Twenty
Life Less Ordinary Carbon Leaf
And So It Goes Billy Joel
Give a Little Bit Supertramp/Goo
Love Me Do The Beatles
The Tide is High Blondie
When It’s Love Van Halen
Elephant Love Medley Moulin Rouge
What is Love? Haddaway
I Want You to Want Me Cheap Trick
The Waiting Tom Petty
God Only Knows The Beach Boys
Rosy and Grey Lowest of the Low
To Make You Feel My Love Bob Dylan/Garth Brooks

This list probably would be longer if I had my own CD collection in front of me. 😉

How many other people out there do this? I have, for as long as I can remember…searched for songs to express a mood, an emotion. I’ve made countless CDs about missing someone, about falling in love, about getting my heart broken, about getting over the broken heart, about friendship, about loss…they used to be tapes, of course, but I’ve made the technological leap to CDs. Sometimes the tapes/CDs were just for me. Sometimes they were made to express my feelings to someone else. But always, at least for me, there’s something cathartic, something powerful and true about finding the perfect song, the perfect lyric, to express how I’m feeling at that moment in time.