Lockdown 19

Lockdown Day 19 - 14 April 2020 

Good songs have a way of sticking and recurring like a maxiplay on repeat. And the only way to get it out of your head is to either keep on singing it out loud until it leaves or to start singing another one over and over. Problem is, that one will also stay a while. Today I started out with Dancing Queen while clocking up a mean 7km on my walking "route" and after breakfast, while sorting that last cupboard I got it out by listening to podcasts. For a while I had 'song-silence'. And this, for me, is very rare. It is a lot like losing your muse while writing a book. No matter how good a writer you are or how well your notes are organised, if the muse went fishing, the muse ain't coning back without a fish. Yes, you can continue writing, but right brain writers like me just waffle on. And when you read what you wrote in your muse-less state, you feel like those America's Got Talent judges slapping the 'x' to reject a performance. The song silence extended into another shopping stint at the pharmacy during a turrential downpour, figuring nobody would be this brave. As Simba from The Lion King said, "I laugh in the face of danger". After dinner we played Tangram to get the student in the house on a good brain wave, and suddenly my anthem was back, just like that. And now, ending the day with a mug of hot spicy Glühwein, 

I resolve to dance to the anthem tomorrow. Good night all my fellow locked down people, I leave you with the words of Jesus from John16:33b, "take courage, I have overcome the world." 

Oh yes, God's got this.