Wednesday, July 20, 2011

"It’s Like Harps were Playing"

Add to Technorati Favorites   “It’s like harps were playing” was a quote I gave describing how I woke up after having a restful night sleep wearing a prototype of my sleepwear nightgown. I gushed about the joy, the serenity, the delight in having a comfortable restful night sleep in this month’s First Magazine. My story is on page 96 at the check stands of your local Grocery store right now.
The irony of this reference to harps playing was I just went to a wedding and there was a harpist playing as the wedding party came down the aisle. It was very lovely and serene and delightful. Maybe my gushing wasn’t as exaggerated as it appears.

Earlier in the week I paid a visit to a friend in the hospital. We walked around her floor and at one end there was a harpist. I thought it was very comforting. My friend thought it reminded her of a funeral and wanted to be released as soon as possible. Interpretation and reference are important on harp gushing!

I know many people who play or have played the guitar, piano, accordion, clarinet, trumpet and saxophone but not one harpist in my social circle, ever. How I would spout the virtues of a harp is beyond me. How I would have 2 encounters with harp music with-in a week when it has been years since I saw or heard someone playing a harp is either celestial or odd.

My first recollection of the harp is from watching a Groucho Marx movie. Harpo was playing a harp. He wasn’t an angel, although in viewing Marx Brothers movies as an adult he was pretty funny. He made a harp sound, soothing, and pretty and rather angelic.

So this story about me and my company comes out with my quote about “harps playing” while I encounter not one but two harp playing events in one week. I am interpreting this as not just a good thing, but a great thing! Coincidences can be very interesting or nothing at all, you be the judge!

4 comments:

Rachel Blaufeld said...

Haralee - I cannot wait to see article -- what an opportunity!
I love the way you talk about your prototype...such vibrancy even years later! I still need my pj's....
Someday - I hope to be so excited over my prototype moving forward.
kudos!! Rachel

Haralee said...

Thanks Rachel. Look for the magazine in the checkstands when you are grocery shopping and say I know her!
Huge sales and new items and production, I do indeed gush, and you will too. It is so much fun!!

Nicole Fende said...

I think the harps playing paints a perfect picture of heavenly rest. Reminiscent of the "Calgon Take Me Away" commercials only better.

What is the magazine? I need to get it. Congrats! That is awesome.

Haralee said...

Nicole, I forgot about the "Take Me Away" commercial, but thanks for the association and the compliment.
The magazine, FIRST, page 96, is at grocery store checkstands now!