Accidentally New Age*

Accidentally New Age is on the letter B in her project to listen to her music library in alphabetical order by album title.

Bad — The Bad Plus 3 Pak — Baduizm — Bag’s Groove

One thing ANA is wondering abou is how to deal with the songs and albums she isn’t exactly in love with (or downright can’t stand).  The tracks she would never listen to unless mandated to by some ridiculous project she’s set for herself.

ANA’s got plenty of space on her external drive, so it’s not like she needs to concern herself with the extra space she would have available if she deleted, say, “Part-Time Lover.” But at the same time she doesn’t like the idea of not keeping whole albums intact. (Do albums have feelings? She doesn’t want to hurt them.)

And what about if a friend is over who is all “What is this ‘Part-Time Lover’ song I’ve heard so much about?” ANA should probably hold on to it, just in case.

Accidentally New Age has to admit she forgot about you. Not each of you as individuals, of course. But the collective you that is the audience of this here blog. Indeed, she also kind of forgot how to log on to post this missive.

So ANA had forgotten about you, but then something happened — as it always seems to.

People have been talking to ANA a lot lately about flower essences. It’s not like she’d never heard of them; they practically have a wall full of them at Scarlet Sage. But she’s never really understood what they were, nor had the gumption to do research until recently. Because they keep coming up in conversation. Then, ANA’s bodywork genius squeezed some into ANA’s mouth during her last session and she decided she needs to know more.

Apparently, and ANA didn’t fact check this (nor does she have an intern to do said fact checking), the flower essences are made by infusing spring water with, you know, the essence of flowers. And they are used to help bring people and their pets back into their natural balance. Apparently they’ve been shown to work on babies and dogs, so take THAT placebo effect.

Anyhoot, what do flower essences have to do with you? Well the other day, when ANA got out her flower essences and squeezed four drops of each directly into her kombucha, she thought “I need to tell someone about this.”