Hum, I wonder

[me]

Ran across this this morning and found it interesting. 

http://fox59.com/2013/09/02/playing-for-time-can-music-stave-off-dementia/#axzz2diLayfIj

[Locutus]

I used to play, but that was years ago now. 

[me]

Maybe you should take it back up again.  If nothing else but for your own enjoyment.   

[Locutus]

I've thought about it but I'm just too busy doing other things these days.

[me]

Just a half hour a day would work I'm thinkin'.  I keep forgetting you don't have a winter down there to keep you inside because of cold and snow though.   

[Locutus]

It's opposite for me.  Sometime a 95 degree day with a heat index of 110 will keep me inside. 

[me]

Guess that is true, I know it would me.... 

[libby]

It's opposite for me.  Sometime a 95 degree day with a heat index of 110 will keep me inside. 

Same here in July and August. Miserable. 

I remember the first time I went south -- to Florida -- on the train, when I was a girl, and stepped outside somewhere in Georgia during a stop. I was stunned by the heat and humidity, and my first thought was, "I can't get my breath!"

[Locutus]

Same here in July and August. Miserable. 

I remember the first time I went south -- to Florida -- on the train, when I was a girl, and stepped outside somewhere in Georgia during a stop. I was stunned by the heat and humidity, and my first thought was, "I can't get my breath!"

I don't want to do a weather hijack on "me's" thread, but I've visited your area for business during the summertime. After living in Florida for many years, I found the summer humidity around there to be more stifling than what I left behind in Florida.  The air is literally so thick that you think you can cut it with a knife.

[libby]

I don't want to do a weather hijack on "me's" thread, but I've visited your area for business during the summertime. After living in Florida for many years, I found the summer humidity around there to be more stifling than what I left behind in Florida.  The air is literally so thick that you think you can cut it with a knife.

I knew it!

I agree about  not hijacking me's thread. It's an interesting one. I've long been interested in the brain/mind and that has led me down some interesting paths. For instance, music and healing: there's quite a bit of current study going on. I have three books on the subject:

Musicophilia, Tales of Music and the Brain, by Oliver Sacks. Sacks is a practicing physician and the author of ten books.... he is a professor of neurology and psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center. I can say from personal experience that he is a fascinating writer. Remember the movie Awakenings starring Robin Williams? It's based on one of Sacks' case histories.

The Mozart Effect, the Power of Music to Heal the body, Strengthen the Mind and Unlock the Creative Spirit, by Don Campbell. He is described as "the world's foremost educator on the connection between music and healing. He trained as a classical musician and has written several books on music and healing.

This is Your Brain on Music, The Science of a Human Obsession, by Daniel J. Levitin.  The book was a Scientific American Book Club selection.  Levitin is described as a rocker-turned-neuroscientist.

[me]

I knew it!

I agree about  not hijacking me's thread. It's an interesting one. I've long been interested in the brain/mind and that has led me down some interesting paths. For instance, music and healing: there's quite a bit of current study going on. I have three books on the subject:

Musicophilia, Tales of Music and the Brain, by Oliver Sacks. Sacks is a practicing physician and the author of ten books.... he is a professor of neurology and psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center. I can say from personal experience that he is a fascinating writer. Remember the movie Awakenings starring Robin Williams? It's based on one of Sacks' case histories.

The Mozart Effect, the Power of Music to Heal the body, Strengthen the Mind and Unlock the Creative Spirit, by Don Campbell. He is described as "the world's foremost educator on the connection between music and healing. He trained as a classical musician and has written several books on music and healing.

This is Your Brain on Music, The Science of a Human Obsession, by Daniel J. Levitin.  The book was a Scientific American Book Club selection.  Levitin is described as a rocker-turned-neuroscientist.

Those sound like interesting books.  I may just have to see if they have them at the library.

[libby]

Those sound like interesting books.  I may just have to see if they have them at the library.

I recommend starting with Oliver Sacks. My first book by him was "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat." I didn't have a clue who he was, bought the book just for the heck of it. It's a compilation of case histories about patients he saw in a mental institution. I read it from cover to cover.  Some time after that, I was taking a psychology class and the final paper was to be about subjects/writers the teacher selected. Oliver Sacks' book (the one I had) was on the list, and I wrote my paper on one of his cases. The teacher wrote me a note on the paper when she passed it back to me, saying it had earned me an A for the course.   

[me]

I recommend starting with Oliver Sacks. My first book by him was "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat." I didn't have a clue who he was, bought the book just for the heck of it. It's a compilation of case histories about patients he saw in a mental institution. I read it from cover to cover.  Some time after that, I was taking a psychology class and the final paper was to be about subjects/writers the teacher selected. Oliver Sacks' book (the one I had) was on the list, and I wrote my paper on one of his cases. The teacher wrote me a note on the paper when she passed it back to me, saying it had earned me an A for the course.   

I used to read all the time but, unfortunately, due to my eyesight it's hard for me to read for any length of time comfortably.  I would like to read those books you mentioned though even though it may take me a little longer then it used to.  Heck, I can always renew them, if the library carries them of course.   

[libby]

I don't want to do a weather hijack on "me's" thread, but I've visited your area for business during the summertime. After living in Florida for many years, I found the summer humidity around there to be more stifling than what I left behind in Florida.  The air is literally so thick that you think you can cut it with a knife.

Today is one of those miserable days here --  hot and VERY "thick."