Grasping at Straws: Finding a Cure for the Blues

Annamaria on Monday

I am having a lot of trouble hanging on to my reputation of the MIE neighborhood jejune and cockeyed optimist. The news reports these day could make one despair. Could make even an optimist like me terminally angry.

The news makes my heart hurt.

If your heart doesn’t hurt, go away now. I don’t want to know you.

At times like these, I find consolation in music. The Dies Irae from Verdi’s Requiem or Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings can turn my anger or sadness into sound and somehow make it bearable.

But not even that is enough to perk me up now that, here in the northern Hemisphere, the daylight is dwindling away. The cold is coming. This is the wrong side of winter for me. It’s no surprise that Seasonal Affective Disorder is abbreviated SAD.

I imagine we all need ways to cheer up.

My spirits are are so low that I am turning to my surefire cure: dancing! So I present here my most cheering performances. If you have a case if the blues, log on to these. They are sure to make you smile.

My first two choices are pretty obvious, but nonetheless surefire hits.

First Fred, but not with not with Ginger Rogers. In this case it’s Eleanor Powell. Rival studio contracts kept Hollywood’s two best dancers apart until they finally got to team up in 1940.

https://youtu.be/DWW6QeeVzDc

And then Travolta!

Here a great favorite you may not have seen. Did you know the mega-talented Christopher Walken could do this?

I am smiling now. I hope you are too.

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Grange City Hotel
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