Dear Reader:

While driving in the car yesterday… the radio announcer said. Did you know that the month of September is the most popular month used in songs… titles and lyrics?

I eat trivia news like that up … so as soon as I got home… I started researching and sure enough September is the most popular month for songwriters to use…for a wide diversity of reasons.

Technically three syllable words are easier to work into music plus September represents such a transition of emotions to match the transition of the month itself that it lends itself to an instant popularity of acceptance with rhythm and lyrics.

September is also, a month of transition, warm turns to cool, bright colors like leaves start manifesting their beauty and we find ourselves in reflective and nostalgic moods with many mixed emotions. It is a time of change.

To just give you a partial example… here are the top ten selling songs with September in the title…

1) September-Earth, Wind, and Fire

2) September Skyline- Single File

3) Maybe September – Tony Bennett

4) Pale September- Fiona Apple

5) The September of My years- Frank Sinatra

6) September Morning -Neil Diamond

7) September Gurls- The Bangles

8) Come September – Natalie Imbruglia

9) September When I First Met You -Berry White

10. September Song -Frank Sinatra

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There are twenty plus songs that use September in titles and many more in the lyrics-Frank Sinatra leads the pack with singing the most… September Songs.

Let’s go back and look at number one again… interesting story… September by Earth, Wind and Fire.

It starts with a question and even today at wedding receptions, reunions, or just neighborhood gatherings … if the event starts out slightly stilted… with people staring at each other… this question is heard over the speakers and suddenly toddlers, small children, adolescents, high schoolers, college youth, young, middle, and older adults are suddenly dancing anywhere and everywhere. The question? Ah… you know it- Do You Remember… the 21st night of September? ….

Three writers tried that opening line with every day of the September month ( 1-30) and made the final decision collectively… 21st sounded best!

It was crowned the Happiest Song from the late 1970’s until….

Yep… you guessed it… until 2014 … Pharrell Williams singing and performing ( with a lot of help from people everywhere 😁) HAPPY!

… Okay I’m back… sorry but Happy-the 24 Hour Video is still available anytime you feel a need or want to listen and watch again… and just dance and get happy… best medicine around!!!

If you can squeeze a few minutes in today… especially remembering yesterday, September 11… allow yourself to be happy…certainly not for the tragedy that shook and changed our sense of security forever… and the lives of many families… but for the response to the nightmare that brought out the best in humanity in its aftermath.

I was watching GMA yesterday when suddenly they switched to the Twin Towers because it was 8:46 am … and all our lives, but especially those inside’s lives would never be the same.

Last week Cindy Ashley sent me an article … she thought I would be interested in.. concerning the meaning behind the Pursuit of Happiness… it was thoroughly researched from many angles but I wrote Cindy back and said that I found the most unique component (about the relationship between suffering and happiness) the most revealing.

Pause for a moment and think about life itself… haven’t we all come into this world upon the suffering of another? Weren’t we given the most precious gift -of all -life- by the person ( our mother) who suffered but also loved us simultaneously during our birth?

Sometimes it is the extreme polarization of unexpected circumstances in life that bring joy and love back into our lives following an unimaginable situation …filled with pure terror.

So until tomorrow…

Today is my favorite Day-Winnie the Pooh

I thought this was the perfect Winnie quote today… didn’t we feel this way after 9/11… looking at the before and after Twin Towers… we all felt lost temporarily too… what had been … no longer was. Today it is back… in a different way… beauty brought back to let the world know hope is still alive and growing! The memorial pool/ fountain remembering those who perished in the tragedy.

Hope grows in my garden too…