The Turntable of Life...

So, here goes.  My foray into the blogosphere.  Why 'Life's Turntable'?  Turntables have always played an important part of my life.  My first memories are of my father blaring records on his 'Hi-Fi', imparting on me a love of music and an affection for vinyl.  I vividly remember him taking the records out of the sleeve, gently placing them on the platter and then carefully cleaning each one before playing.  To this day, I still use a turntable to listen to music and buy my favorite artists on vinyl.  It reminds me of my childhood escape - sitting behind the big green chair in our living room with my 'Close-n-Play', playing my 45's and eventually retreating to the basement as a teenager where I had my makeshift DJ set up (two turntables and a mixing board) and could crank up some U2, Sex Pistols, Police, Clash, Earth, Wind and Fire and many, many more of my favorites.   Music has always been my release and the comfort I find in placing a record on the platter of my turntable is inexplicable. 

Life is like a turntable in many ways.  Sometimes you put the needle on the record and it skips, sometimes you put the needle on the record and it finds the perfect groove, putting out the clearest, sweetest sound.  It spins round like the circle of life - creating memories and evoking deep emotions through the power of lyrics about birth, life, death, sex, addiction, love, loss, faith, hope, joy.  All the emotions we experience in life, captured perfectly in a song.  

My turntable and part of my vinyl collection in my 'woman cave'.

I plan on using this blog to reflect on life through the many lessons I have learned along the way.  Lessons about being human, being tolerant and being able to find the sublime in the ordinary.  

For now, I'm going to listen to a little Beach Boys on the old turntable.