Welcome back to Christmas, and a blog a day for these 12 days.\u00a0 (No partridges involved.)<\/p>\n
There will be a few guest blogs from good friends of Live Loudly Donate Proudly and, sprinkled around them, a liberal helping of tunes.<\/p>\n
The season is littered with Christmas playlists and favourite films to binge\u00a0on (or avoid!), so we thought we’d extend the idea a bit.\u00a0 In our commitment to encouraging those conversations about organ donation, we’ve invited a bunch of friends from the transplant world to contribute a song or piece of music that has\u00a0become part of their own journey’s soundtrack.\u00a0 We were surprised (shouldn’t have been) by the responses that came so readily, and that provide a window onto some deeply personal and intimate experiences.<\/p>\n
Many tracks are familiar, although to link them with these personal journeys\u00a0may be to hear them in a completely\u00a0 new way.\u00a0 Our tastes vary, but in all this music there is an invitation to\u00a0visit a different place, even for a few minutes, and “sit with” those who give us their music, and sense a little more of the hopes and fears, joys and dreams that come with it.<\/p>\n
We also wondered how best to share these tracks.\u00a0 Never easy for the non-IT skilled…and since people use all sorts of different music platforms we gave up scratching our heads and suggest you take the titles suggested, find\u00a0them on your own chosen platform, and start building a Live Loudly Donate Proudly 12 days of Christmas playlist…<\/p>\n
To start us off,\u00a0here\u00a0are a couple of tracks that helped bring organ donation to mind in a public way in recent years.\u00a0 The first video released with\u00a0Lewis Capaldi’s song, “Someone you loved”<\/strong>, featured his relative, Peter Capaldi, as a man who visits the family of a woman to whom his wife’s heart was donated.\u00a0 It was released in partnership with the organ donation campaign group, Live Life, Give Life<\/em>.\u00a0 The second version of the video focused on\u00a0friendships and family, and, as Capaldi said,\u00a0\u00a0“…the people we surround ourselves with that have the strength when we don’t and help us continue to make the right decisions in moments of fear or hardship.”<\/p>\n Then, in a different genre, a song from\u00a0Bonnie Raitt,\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cJust Like That”<\/strong>,<\/span>\u00a0inspired by a similar news story she saw about a woman who donated her son\u2019s organs after he\u00a0died, and\u00a0who then met\u00a0the man who received her son\u2019s heart.<\/span><\/p>\n And, if you are still hungry for Christmas films, and don’t mind a spoiler…there is a story wrapped around the Wham track, “Last Christmas”, in a film of the same name.\u00a0 Critics criticised it, audiences loved it.\u00a0 You choose.<\/p>\n Whatever you do with these blogs, may there be kindness for you in the best of this season…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome back to Christmas, and a blog a day for these 12 days.\u00a0 (No partridges involved.) There will be a few guest blogs from good friends of Live Loudly Donate Proudly and, sprinkled around them, a liberal helping of tunes. The season is littered with Christmas playlists and favourite films to binge\u00a0on (or avoid!), so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-news-and-events","category-personal-story","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phtpid-op","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1562,"href":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions\/1562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}