melissa.talk
Melissa
Speech pathologist. Spends her days helping people find their words, and the rest of the time playing music, picking flowers and jumping in the pool.
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Tap a flower
Every flower here makes a sound. Start anywhere.
Walks in the park
Most afternoons, if the weather's kind, Melissa does a lap of the park with something upbeat in her headphones. She stops for every flower, which makes it a long lap.
Park rules
Please stop and smell the flowers. All of them. Yes, that one too.
Upbeat music
Her playlists don't do sad. If there's a beat, she's clapping along. Clap a word with her, one beat for every syllable.
Rising up
Teaching some speech
Power struggle
With a 5-year-old
watermelon
4 claps
Strings, keys and a voice
Melissa plays violin, piano and guitar, and she sings. Some evenings that's all four before dinner. Have a go.
Piano. Try C, E, G together.
Violin. Press and hold to bow.
Guitar. Tap to strum.
Voice. Pick a vowel and the garden sings it.
Poems & songs
She writes both. Her anthology, Seasons of Me, follows her through every kind of season, and some of the poems have grown into songs. Every poem has a beat, so tap this one out.
Look at the trees,
How they bend and sway
They don’t ever worry
They were made that way
Hear the birds as they chirp and sing
They sing a song in unity with everything
They do not worry about shelter or food
They trust the source and know that it’s all good
Good food, good people
Long lunches, birthday singalongs and chats that run past dessert. The food is great. The people are the best part.
Who's bringing dessert?
Mel, play us something!
One more song, then a walk?
Same time next Sunday.
Swimming
Just for fun, never for times. Nothing clears the head quite like it.
Pop a bubble.