Olivia Newton-John, the didgeridoo and well-being.

There's a trend here: Olivia is always somehow linked to healing.

Yup. It's not just her recent album (Grace and Gratitude, wich she called a 'healing' album for her), It's not Stronger Than Before either (another well-being related album of hers from a little over a couple of years ago...).

It's not only her activism in encouraging women to be preventive towards breast cancer, it's not only her environmental causes..

It's not only the causes related to the protection of endangered species.. wich go back to the late 70's.

It's also the songs she sings, even if they weren't necessarily (??) intended to be healing.... perhaps they were?

In a song from 1976, I'll Bet You a Kangaroo, she sings about the didgeridoo, wich is for us all uninitiated an aboriginal musical instrument, from Australia.

Some people find the instrument to be one wich is appeasing, healing.

Sara Johnson certainly thinks so:

"I think the name of the song was 'I'll Bet You a Kangaroo' and the words say 'someday we will dance to the music of a didgeridoo'. I heard that song and I wanted a didgeridoo. I didn't even know what a didgeridoo was! I just liked the way the word rolled off my tongue."

(...)

(Johnson) is an advocate of the healing powers of the instrument -- or at least its ability to relieve stress and create a peaceful, easy feeling.

"I have been outside playing on my deck and butterflies will circle around the bottom of the horn and dance on the sound waves," explained Johnson, as she blew out a call to the bull frogs in her nearby pond. "When I stop playing the butterflies go away."

Well, my.. Olivia is definitely associated to healing.. It's now been a pattern for decades for her!

Read Sara Johnson's story here:

http://www.southbendtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070625/News01/706250361



The didgeridoo (with the little, optional lizard around it..;) )