Music as a valve

Music has the ability to reach inside our chest and to release emotion that has been denied its full expression.

It can turn a release valve to allow joy, pain, sadness, excitement, anger, love, serenity … to let those things come to the surface and to flow out of us.

There are times when we choose songs based on our feelings … but there are also times when a song catches us by surprise, turning that valve, and there we are — faced with that raw emotion that had been waiting for its moment.

Let it come … and let it go.