{"id":24885,"date":"2024-01-31T23:34:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T04:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=24885"},"modified":"2024-01-31T23:34:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T04:34:12","slug":"s3-scribble-13-bells-for-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2024\/01\/31\/s3-scribble-13-bells-for-her\/","title":{"rendered":"S3 Scribble #13: Bells for Her"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cCan’t stop loving,\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today marks the 30th anniversary of an album that changed my life and provided me with some much-needed feminine strength, energy, and power throughout my late teens and into my present-day early twenties: Tori Amos\u2019s Under the Pink<\/em>. It was this album that launched me into the phenomenal discography of Tori Amos \u2013 an artist who, if you\u2019ve been following my blogs for a while, is clearly one of my favorites. I often see myself in her music, and sometimes her music even helps me process emotions I don\u2019t fully understand prior to hearing one of her songs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCan’t stop what is on its way.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve had the good fortune of seeing Tori Amos perform live in concert several times. I have made friends through our shared love of her music, and I was even lucky enough to meet her after one of her shows. I\u2019ve been told to never meet my idols. Clearly, whoever said that did not experience meeting Tori Amos. I wrote her a letter thanking her for her music and sharing the impact that it has had on my life and I gave it to one of her team members prior to the concert. When I met Tori after the show and told her my name, she said she had read my letter and thanked me for writing it, even referencing some specific things about myself that I had written in the letter. It was an unforgettable experience: someone whose work I admired so much had not only read my letter, but retained the information it contained! Needless to say, I will be a fan for life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd I see it coming,\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I feel particularly strong emotions, I love that I can often find comfort and relatability in the songs of my favorite artists. This week, I have once again had to practice letting things go, and the song \u201cBells for Her\u201d is about exactly that. Letting go of things I can\u2019t control isn\u2019t easy for me, and, thanks to this song, I know that I\u2019m not the only one who struggles with this. I \u201ccan\u2019t stop what is on its way,\u201d but I can work on accepting that I don\u2019t have control over everything. In this week\u2019s case, everything turned out alright\u2026 as it usually does. This is just yet another experienced example I can use, moving forward, to remind myself to relax in the face of uncertainty, because getting worked up will not stop what is on its way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd it’s on its way.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listen to Bells for Her <\/em>by Tori Amos here: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YWIvvDjOt-A<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cCan’t stop loving,\u201d Today marks the 30th anniversary of an album that changed my life and provided me with some much-needed feminine strength, energy, and power throughout my late teens and into my present-day early twenties: Tori Amos\u2019s Under the Pink. It was this album that launched me into the phenomenal discography of Tori Amos […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2242,"featured_media":23657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2242"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24887,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24885\/revisions\/24887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}