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Holiday Cheer Music

12 Days of Christmas | Song 7

Happy Twelve Days of Christmas! A Christmas Countdown featuring my Christmas favourites (plus pictures of my foster kittens).


Just as important to me and entertaining as Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer is Merry Christmas From the Family performed by Rosie O’Donnell and The Chicks (or, as I know them, The Dixie Chicks).

Unfortunately, this song won’t play on Spotify for me. Maybe it will for you! I’ve still included it in my Top Twelve Christmas Songs playlist which I’ll be releasing December 25.

I used to listen to Rosie O’Donnell’s Christmas CD for weeks leading up to Christmas. I had a great range of exposure in my childhood. 😉


Grace & Frankie having a pre-Christmas nap.


Find my full Christmas Playlist on Spotify here.

Find my full Winter Playlist on Spotify here.

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Holiday Cheer Music

12 Days of Christmas | Song 6

Happy Twelve Days of Christmas! A Christmas Countdown featuring my Christmas favourites (plus pictures of my foster kittens).


I love Elvis’ Christmas Album. It brings back lovely memories of enjoying the holidays with my mom. I love it all from Blue Christmas to I Believe. But I have a special fondness for Peace in the Valley which resounds the true feeling of the season even if it’s not the most Christmasy song on the album.


Frankie finds these Christmas tunes relaxing.


Find my full Christmas Playlist on Spotify here.

Find my full Winter Playlist on Spotify here.

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Holiday Cheer Music

12 Days of Christmas | Song 5

Happy Twelve Days of Christmas! A Christmas Countdown featuring my Christmas favourites (plus pictures of my foster kittens).


On the fifth day of Christmas, I recommend to thee,

Have A Holly Jolly Christmas with me!

I have great memories of busting out my Burl Ives Christmas cassette tape – a favourite in my holiday line up. I loved dancing to A Holly Jolly Christmas! The song Snow for Johnny was obviously a close runner up.


Time travel back with me! Enjoy this classic and, while you’re in the past, maybe catch one of my favourite Christmas films: Santa Claus is Coming to Town.


I think Grace & Frankie and me are going to curl up for a holiday movie night!


Find my full Christmas Playlist on Spotify here.

Find my full Winter Playlist on Spotify here.

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Playlist Poetry Saturday Expressions

Take a Gamble | Session 6

Take a Gamble:
A Poem in 21 Songs

Runtime: 1hr 18min

Lucky Day
let’s play

Truth
or
DARE

I took you for
The Gambler

if you can
Jump into the Fire
we’ll pretend

I Feel Lucky
so
Dare Me

Ain’t it funny
in my
Impossible Dream 
I’ll be asking
How D’ya Like Your Eggs in the Morning?
and you sing your reply 
Yes, We have no Bananas

All Your Yeahs
with
Burning Love

inspire
Enlightenment

but

The Truth 
is
You Can’t Always Get What You Want

un
Lucky

It’s a Sin
to 
Pass Me By

why not
Pawn it All
instead?

you’re still gamblin’
Lucky You
I bet.

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Holiday Cheer Thirsty Thursday

12 Days of Christmas | Song 3

Happy Twelve Days of Christmas! A Christmas Countdown featuring my Christmas favourites (plus pictures of my foster kittens).


On the third day of Christmas my true love gave to me…

a drink because I was thiiirstyyyy
(no?)

Welcome to the Thirsty-third Day of Christmas. Today I showcase Baby It’s Cold Outside – my favourite version – by Leon Redbone and Zoey Deschanel.

I can’t say if it’s because I was raised on Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, but I find no offense with this song. I think it’s sweet and sexy and a lovely dated portrait of a young couple doing the dance of flirtation on a cold winter’s night.

The best part of my all time favourite Christmas soundtrack from Elf, in my humble opinion.

I also love the song Sleigh Ride (from the same soundtrack) which always reminds me of the masterpiece, “Bless Your Beautiful Hide”, from Seven Brides (for some absolutely unknown reason):

How to find yourself a wife

Bonus: 12 Days of Charity

Looking for a charitable organization to support this season?

How about Women’s Place of South NiagaraThis organization helps women escape domestic violence. They provide education in schools on how to identify healthy and unhealthy relationships. They made a huge positive impact on a friend of mine. Their support is critical to the thousands who have been helped by them.

How to go courtin’

A holiday hello from Grace & Frankie, the foster kittens 🙂


Find my full Christmas Playlist on Spotify here.

Find my full  Winter Playlist on Spotify here.

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Holiday Cheer Music

12 Days of Christmas | Song 2

Happy Twelve Days of Christmas! A Christmas Countdown featuring my Christmas favourites (plus pictures of my foster kittens).


Today I recommend the jazzy God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen performed by Barenaked Ladies and Sarah McLachlan. Fun to sing and dance to. Join me?


Bonus: 12 Days of Charity

Looking for a charitable organization to support this season?

Choose YWCA Niagara Region. This amazing organization provides emergency shelter, transitional housing, and other critical programs to women, men, and families throughout the Niagara Region. Helping people in times of crisis, they function year-round to provide essential service no matter what the state of the world. As they grow sustainably, they are always in need of donations and support to maintain their tremendous efforts.

These guys think YWCA is great:

Foster kittens to be adoptable through Pets Alive Niagara.


Find my full Christmas Playlist on Spotify here.

Find my full Winter Playlist on Spotify here.

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Holiday Cheer Music

12 Days of Christmas | Song 1

Happy Twelve Days of Christmas! A Christmas Countdown featuring my Christmas favourites (plus pictures of my foster kittens).

Kicking it off with Bing Crosby’s Mele Kalikimaka – the wise way to say Merry Christmas to you.

One of my all time favourite Christmas Songs and Christmas albums!

Bonus: 12 Days of Charity

Looking for an organization to support this season?

Why not Pets Alive Niagara? – an amazing organization that helps prevent needless euthanasia of shelter pets through its creative network of volunteers, fosters, adopters, and donors.

They work to support and save lives and benefit little cuties like these guys:

I hope this helps get you into the holiday spirit! 🙂


Merry Christmas! Or should I say, Mele Kalikimaka 😉


Find my full 🎅 Christmas Playlist on Spotify here.

Find my full ❄️ Winter Playlist on Spotify here.

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Poetry

Come Together

Infinite

Endless

Space

You create your future today

Do not become overwhelmed by the opportunities
If What if is What is then Why not What if
Something fucking fantastic.

Let us come together like fire and ice
to create the perfect fog
to slowly uncover the puzzle
put together by sightless senses
somehow complete and smooth around the edges
Won’t you create intentionally with me?

Let us build a masterpiece of a life
reciprocity
boundless giving, love instead of fears
we have such fun to make
a home of sex and joy
transforming life 
for hearts we touch
and we strive to touch them all
with a swinger’s gift
unique lust lends
to love
after
all.

You showed me gypsy magic
under light of waxing moon
simple, soulful tunes,
banged out with wooden spoons
passed down from father to son
carved with mystic ruins
creating music for ear
hair raises on skin
I feel it on my neck
like hot breath
and scruff scratch
I feel it on my lower back
where kidneys rub tissue to soundtracks
my arching spine senses the divine
from this music made
so much more than sound tonight
as only magic that persuades
the body move separate from mind
out of control, dancing in time
to art brought forth from empty space
a fire burns within this place
a story comes forth from your lips
I’m dancing with it on my hips
it is hypnotic as I twirl
no longer human, no more a girl
a spirit, light and transformed, airy
you moved me with the music sound
so that my feet no longer meet ground
yet I dance, so moved by you
and you by my words
as you play your tune.

We came together this cold night
to create intentionally by candle light
both romantics, painfully, to core
wishing freedom from attachment
wishing for much more.
yet still finding the body
anything but a bore
because these human sensations
can be felt in each pore
Have you counted them recently? 
there are billions
yet we call it one piece
don’t see it fragmented
and wish for release – 
from what?

It’s the thoughts and desires
like three deadly poisons
like witches who snare
with unsolicited visions
inciting toxic ambition
that clings to an “I”
not found in team
not found in love
which only gives, lest I dream
and yearn to receive as much as I live
to selflessly, unabashedly strive
to get rid of the ego and get rid of my pride.

Until I have made much more progress here,
I just yearn for the music
to help me release fear
the magic is working
as the gypsies knew
the music is magic
and the music
is you.

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Playlist Poetry

Your Playlist

Your Playlist:
A Poem in 80 Songs

Runtime: 5 hr 10 min

Do you think about me often?
Like I’m a 
Hex Girl?

Lucky You
because I
Diga, Diga, Doo
too
How I’d like to do 
The Jitterbug Waltz
with you

Unchain My Heart
Spellbinder
I find your voice
Super Good

Tonight in the Moonlight
I Hope You Dance
Dog Trot
Dip It Low
and even
Lose Control
with me

we’re 
Very Busy People
part of this
Nowhere Generation
Cherry Picking
On The Banks Of The Owichita

In Another Life
I think we were
Up and Rolling
I think we enjoyed
A Quiet Life
by the 
Riverside
maybe on
Such a Night
I was your
Gypsy Queen
you, a
Wayfaring Stranger
melting my
Stonecold
heart

are you the
House of My Soul?
because
The Truth
is that your
Spring Fashion
is in 
Perfect Harmony
with my
Taste

I felt I could be
The Yellow Rose of Texas
but then the mournful soul that sang
Tennessee Waltz
(It was Patti Page)
because you already had
Too Many Friends
Counting Bodies Like Sheep To The Rhythm of The War Drums

while I was
Running Up That Hill
yearning for a 
Higher Devotion
thinking
How Do I Get There
thinking I’m a
Bad Liar
thinking I can’t
Stop Thinking About You
even
Dreaming of You
nothing 
Quite Like
anything I’ve felt before

at
Bedtime
with a 
Mind on Fire
thoughts of you
Tearing Me Up
making me want to
Ruin Your Night
too, for making me
Think It Over
think that it was
Signals
for me, but it was just
Scotch and Soda
for you

I was a
Girl from the North Country
wandering, wondering
Where Have All the Average People Gone
not the one with
Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes

so when I feel this
Ghost Pressure
I call you
Troubleman
wondering
What Else Is There?
wondering is this the
Wrong Vibration

I
Got It Bad
and you’re
Making Me Nervous
because
I Got it Bad And That Ain’t Good
so I picture you saying
None Shall Pass
and the beg my 
Fatal Fantasies 
of you
Fade Away

knowing just the same
I’ll See You in My Dreams
In the Early Morning Rain
with your 
Slow Hand

and I 
Dream in the Dark
that I’m
Chainsmoking
Your Love
as if it’s the only way to
Stay Alive
and I’m
Beggin 
Think About Me 
Turn Your Love
to me

in 
The Land of the Silver Birch
we’ll 
Moondance
Tonight
Wasted

until I 
Fade Into You
until the
Evening Star
is
Fallin’
For You
too

and I know I’m 
Falling for U
too, thinking
I Fall in Love too Easily

With You