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Burning Down the House

Talking Heads are SO weird!! Today's song is kind of an ode to what I am doing today.  I am taking part in a "de-hoard".  And I'm excited about it!!  (I'm weird, I know...)  I wonder if at the end of the day or at some point during the day I will want to say, "Let's just burn down the house."  AHAHAHAHA!  That's why I thought that the Talking Heads should be given this space today and with this song. 

Hoarders fascinate me.  I can't get enough of the show and I think it's because, along with the psychologists, I'm trying to figure out the why's of their hoarding.  I've always been interested in trying to help someone figure out their wounds, their responses to their wounds, and changing it so it is healthy and not unhealthy.  Hoarding is always an unhealthy response to wounding.  But enough of this seriousness...

With Talking Heads on the playlist for today how could anyone be serious for very long?!? :) 


Burning Down the House

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