.. . . . . . . . . . LITERALLY!    I love music.  Always have.  Although I can't carry a tune to save my life and even though I had piano lessons for awhile as a kid, I don't play a musical instrument.  But OH, how I love music! 

Music stirs my soul in a way that borders on the mystical.  I can hear something from the 60's and instantly, I'm transported back to that teenager and a certain time in my life. If something from the early 70's comes on the radio, I usually pause and momentarily I'm a young mom raising my children as a war rages on the other side of the world. When I hear Cool and the Gang singing "We Are Family".....I'm in college for my nurses training.  Every single party or gathering we had during those very tough two years, that was our theme song.  

So yes, music stirs me and has always been an important element in my life.  I've read studies that music has energy, vibrational energy.  So perhaps this accounts for the incredible visceral feeling many songs are capable of arousing in me.

Over the years, I've managed to build up quite a CD collection...........from Bob Dylan and Simon and Garfunkel to Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli.  My taste runs the gamut from 60's, to classical, to jazz. 

I recently saw an ad in a magazine for the Bose Acoustic Wave II system.   I'm familiar with the exceptional quality of a Bose music system, because that's what I have in my Infinity.  It's the system that Infinity automatically installs in their cars.  And oh yeah, I've been very pleased with it!  So when I saw the ad for this system for the home, I decided to check it out.  And yes...........I ended up ordering it and it was delivered last Friday.

It truly IS beyond exceptional.  The purity and quality of sound is impossible to describe in words.  I love how compact it is, taking up very little room here in my writers studio.  The booklet said for maximum enjoyment the volume should be around #85 (did you hear it at your house?)............So I popped in my VERY favorite Canon by Pachelbel, got myself a much deserved bourbon and water (after the stressful two weeks of the contest) opened the door to my writers studio, and sat out on the lanai.  I swear I thought I was sitting at the Wang Center listening to the Boston Symphony perform!  I was so excited with the sound, that I had to keep jumping up to see what Burl Ives would sound like singing a favorite of my Aunt Marie and I - Down in The Valley, and then Enya's CD, A Day Without Rain,  and oh, I HAD to hear Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli singing, "Time to Say Goodbye."  And to hear Henry Mancini's Thornbirds was pure ecstasy.

Needless to say, I don't think I'll ever be sorry for investing in this totally awesome music system.  As I sit here and pound the keyboard working on my next novel, I'll be enjoying the soothing notes of Mozart and Bach and all my other favorites.

See you here next time..................