September 11, 2012

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  Day Twenty-Five:  Listening to Jim

  I’m a intentional user of psychological manipulation.  Wow, that sounds crazy, doesn’t it?  What it actually means is that I know what things set me off and avoid them, and know which things cause other reactions in myself in utilize them.  For example, when I was growing up, I knew that my mom’s rages could be dissolved by putting Jim Reeves in the tape recorder.  So I did that.  A lot. 

  But it also works on me.  When I was a kid, my mom always cleaned the house to Doug Oldham and Jim Reeves’ Gospel albums.  Both are long gone, and your great aunts are probably the only ones who listen to them anymore… besides me.  Because you see, when I turn on those two albums (I have them on opposite sides of the same cassette tape) – I have to clean.  I can’t sit down.  If I hear that music, I’m lighter, the house is brighter, I have more energy, and I know it’s psychological, but I’ve just got to clean.  And because I know this, I use it.

  We listen to a LOT of Doug and Jim, around here.  And honestly, it’s good music.  Old school – VERY, very old school – from the King James era, just about – but very, very good.  I prefer it over just about everything else.  It’s soothing.  It’s meaningful.  They don’t make ‘em like ‘Gentleman Jim’, anymore.  He’s just so, SO smooth and easy on the ears.  And while there are no clips off the Doug Oldham album on YouTube, there are  SEVEN of Jim’s songs on there!!  How about that number?!     So I thought I’d link you to them, so you can hear what I listen to.

   

     

  So this is what’s playing in my house this week –
  because it’s crunch time, and I’ve a lot to do!

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