Soundtracks: What love sounds like

I move through life pretty kinesthetically, my job and the things I am most passionate about require physical stamina, endurance, fortitude. In my former academic life I was a visual artist, and so I process visual images voraciously, almost hedonistically. They offer me a richness I dont find in day to day conversation. My heart, and my sentiments are bound loosely by the music that tempered the emotions in a moment. Its the one thing that crosses all lines of who I am and how I move through the world. It is textural, and raw, and very very real. There is a blogger I admire who ends every post with a song reference. I like it. It makes me want to connect what about those thoughts and feelings resonate in that song. And so, I submit for the universe, and for you, the connection my memory has to the songs I still hear, months, sometimes years after that moment happened. But, first, a list. In the wake of a terrible breakup, I actually wrote down the songs that were playing while my heart was absorbing the shock of it.
Ani – Dilate
Tracy – Crossroads
Dar – As Cool As I Am
Indigo Girls – Ghost
Brandi Carlile – What Can I Say?
Chris Pureka – Silo Song
Melissa Etheridge – If I wanted to
Amy Ray – Lazyboy
P.J. Harvey – This is love
Ellis Paul – Marias Beautiful Mess
Mary Chapin Carpenter – The long way home
Dixie Chicks – Landslide