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Everybody has their “thing.” That one indulgence they always look forward to experiencing. It might be food, watching sports, working in the garden, taking in a show, traveling to some far-off destination, reading, spending time with the grandchildren or perhaps listening to music. It’s that “something” that takes you away from the daily stress and provides an escape or perhaps an opportunity to decompress so you can recharge your “batteries.”
For me, it’s golf. But a close number two is listening to music. I love all kinds of music and like most people, what I am listening to at the moment depends mainly on my mood. And if I am having a challenging day, music can change my mood. It’s also amazing how quickly a song can take me back to another time in my life. Just one song can put me square in the middle of a date I had in high school or perhaps back in my dorm room in college. And while I don’t always know all the words to the songs I am listening to, I still enjoy them just the same. Tim Hawkins has a great video on how people sing the wrong lyrics to songs, and I pretty much think it applies to most of us. My top picks for music would be country, classic rock, jazz and even classical. But put me in the seat for an opera and I will feign an illness quicky and be heading for the door before the first screaming note is heard on stage (my apologies to the opera fans).
The Jazz Age is particularly intriguing to me. The era speaks of an incredibly challenging time in our history and shows the strength music can have to communicate the issues of the day. I was in a speak-easy a few years back listening to an incredible jazz band. At one point, each of the band members was introduced and as part of that introduction, each one played a solo on their instrument. And as this process played out, I thought how talented each member of the band was in their own right but how much more talented the band was as a group when each of the members was playing in harmony with the others. And isn’t that the success song we need to see more of in today’s modern community association board? I have worked with thousands of boards over the decades, and I am amazed more so today than at any point in the past, how out of tune many modern-day board members are with each other. Why is that the case? Why
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