Fun Friday and an Epiphany, Of Sorts

Happy Friday and Day Two of World Music Therapy Week!!

I was watching some early morning social media, especially some of the music therapy propaganda coming from Nordoff-Robbins (which I LOVE) about a girl who needs pervasive levels of support for all activities of daily living. Music therapy was a place where this girl was able to express aspects of her personality that were not easily accessible in other areas of her life. This reminded me of the students I used to work with who seemed similar to this girl.

I realized how much I miss those students and the interactions that we had during their therapy sessions every week. Perhaps this is one of my pathways for the future??

Yesterday, I printed out some of the materials shared by the World Federation of Music Therapy and put them up on the wall by my music room. No one has mentioned them yet, and I wonder if they will. It was fun to share a little bit about what we do with the people around me who tend to take it for granted most of the time. I hope that someone reads the posters I put up, but who knows if they will?

It is time for a Fun Friday.

My Fridays are my administrative task days. Sometimes I do a great job of filling my time with tasks that make a difference in my music therapy practice. Other times I do not. Lately, I have not been using my time wisely or productively.

Today, my to-do list is growing with all sorts of tasks - both directly client-related and not. I want to continue to clean and organize my materials. I have two large cabinets that I want to move from one room to the other, but my back is not really cooperating with that task right now. We will see if I actually do anything at all.

One of the things that I haven't been doing lately is sitting outside of my room in the communal hallway. I am not feeling like heading to a place where other people make snarky comments about how they wish they had time to sit in the sunshine but have to go back to work. Blah. I can do my work in the sunshine - that's a benefit to being a journaler - my ideas book can go anywhere, anytime!! I am not tied to an electrical plug with my journal (do you like how I tied that to bullet journaling??).

Oh, dear. It is time to leave and head to work. I wish I could go back to bed, but I can't so, off I go. It is time to turn off the British comedy shows and head into the world to do my thing...

Happy Friday.

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