The June 24, 2013 issue of
Woman’s World magazine offered tantalizing feel good/look good snippets. A
paragraph on page 4 indicated that “men’s brains are not wired to pick up on
the subtle facial clues that reveal how others are feeling”…This segued my
brain to an oldie-goldie song that made #1 on the “Billboard charts” in 1954.
Penned and published in 1953 by Edith Lindeman and Carl Stutz, it was made
famous by songstress Kitty Kallen.
A part-time career many years
ago found me playing easy-listening drums and singing pretty melodies, in
harmony with my musician husband who was a professional pianist and composer in
his own right. I still have a notebook of hand printed lyrics and several
sheaves of Murray Graham’s arrangements and harmonies for duets! Among those is
a wistful favourite which I think every woman would find inspiration in from
time to time.
“Little Things Mean a Lot” is
plaintiff and heart-wrenching…”Throw me a
kiss from across the room, say I look nice when I’m not, Touch my hair as you
pass my chair, Little Things Mean a Lot”.
The melody is easy to hum and the lyrics are as meaningful now as then.
In this day and age of
hurry-hurry, 24/7, on-the-go incessantly and hardly a second to catch one’s breath,
the Woman’s Day item concludes that all we have to do is “tell him how/what
we’re feeling and what would make us feel better.” Sounds simple, but not
consoling!
Who’dathunkit…..scientific
studies indicate that men’s brains are wired to be problem solvers.
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