Swati
Kashmir
India
It never rains when you want it to...
I became a Norah Jones fan at a very difficult time in my life. Its was early 2004 and I was at home driving down the road listening to the radio with my kids in the backseat. As I was scrolling through the stations a song was playing, it was about in the middle of it. It was the most beautiful peaceful song I think I had ever heard. Immediately when I got home I called my niece who usually knew about the current music scene. I said hey I heard this song, it was so beautiful and told her the lyrics. She said she knew the song but not the artist. A few days later I was driving in my car again and the DJ came on and announced, up next we have Norah Jones with the song Don”t know why. The tune was familiar to me so I listened and it was the same song! As I listened to this beautiful song, it put me at immense peace, my life at that time was staying at home taking care for 4 young children, two being my sons and the other two being my step-daughter and my step-son. At that time I was attending football practices, baseball practices and numerous others while juggling household chores and my sons who 3 and 8 years old. We had very little money and was living in a very poor neighborhood living from paycheck to paycheck and the worries of will I be able to feed my children tomorrow. Life was so hectic and stressed that when Norah came into my life it was like a breath of fresh air, the feeling of immense relief. Later that year life looked more positive as my husband started making more money and we decided to buy our first house. We moved into a very nice neighborhood only a mile from the hospital where my husband worked. Sometime in that year I was at the store and I saw the Norah Jones cd Come away with me, for sale. Thinking well a lot of cds have one good song and the rest are usually not so good I was hesitant to purchase it but I did anyway. I went home and crossed my fingers and pushed the cd into the cd player and put it on the song, “come away with me” and I was hooked from there. Sometime that fall I was again driving in the car and it was announced that Norah Jones would be in concert soon. I made it a point to purchase those tickets right away. When I went and Norah came out on stage, the crowd went wild with excitement. And I must say she is exceptionally lovely in person and a gorgeous singer also, and a very nice person all around. Now everyone I meet I introduce them to the music of Norah Jones and they always love it. One person that I didn't introduce though would have to be my good friend Saptarshi Chakraborty, and in turn he has introduced me into a world of Norah that I never knew. I must say he is her biggest fan with his Norah Jones community on Orkut, and his Norah Jones website. These sites are extremely impressive with a link to almost every possible Norah song ever made. Saptarshi really does Norah proud in his extensive knowledge of this amazing and talented person, and I am proud to say that he is a very good friend of mine.
Thank you,
Oklahoma
U.S.A.
Spinning, laughing, dancing to
her favorite song
A little girl with nothing wrong
Is all alone
Eyes wide open
Always hoping for the sun
And she'll sing her song to anyone
that comes along
Fragile as a leaf in autumn
Just fallin' to the ground
Without a sound
Crooked little smile on her face
Tells a tale of grace
That's all her own
Spinning, laughing, dancing to
her favorite song
A little girl with nothing wrong
And she's all alone
I guess this blog requires you to write about what is our personal realm of experience through her songs … but a life can not but be held out in a piece of blog and am not a great writer either to attempt that … only a few things which can be said is … the freshman me in the college was a loner … I came to study architecture against the many odds and somehow it didn't make my folks at home very happy in d beginning , I left the chosen path of general engineering … n in the dream field of mine I confronted with people of a different world , there were doctrines and dogmas in this new world and friendship was often dodged by hypocrisy … Though all was not prosaic and mean …
And it needed time to find out the true soul mates…
But I haven't forgot Norah the friend of my yellow times … I wont say it was dark .. or grey … ... yellow is not cheerful but it was a disguise .. a disguise of tawdry friendship that eluded , disguise of evils in form of Samaritans ... and obscurity of my vision towards the future ... towards hope and life spirit…
and here goes the prologue ….http://ingenueifranlein