Walk Around or Climb: The Mountain Won’t Move Itself 🎵 Inspired by: “As” – Stevie Wonder

In today’s Good Vinyl Mornings, we confront the question: Do you keep walking around your mountain—or do you finally begin the climb? Because the truth is, every step away from the summit doesn’t shrink the challenge…it only makes the path deeper, the mountain higher, and your opportunity for growth more limited. Stevie Wonder captures that eternal chase in “As”, a seven‑minute soul-jazz prayer that became a single in 1977 and reached No. 36 on the Billboard Hot 100
Emerging from his masterpiece Songs in the Key of Life, the song was co-produced with a cast of musical greats—Herbie Hancock on Fender Rhodes, Nathan Watts on bass—and filled with metaphors of endless love: rainbows burning the stars, oceans covering mountains 

But beneath the romance lies a deeper invitation: commit to the climb. As Stevie chants “As around the sun the earth knows she's revolving…,” he reminds us that time only progresses in cycles—not in circles avoided. Choosing easy detours can leave us entrenched in routines that dig grooves instead of elevating our perspective.

This episode invites you to:

• Acknowledge your mountain—the dream you delay, the relationship you avoid, the purpose you hesitate to pursue
• Recognize that circling leads to accumulation—not of growth, but of distance and delay
• Leverage the song’s promise of constancy—let the steady chords and metaphors of enduring love fuel your faith in steady ascent

Stevie built this song at a crossroads—after nearly leaving music, after personal injury—yet he climbed, unwavering in both sound and spirit 
Let his resolve be your guide.

So today, stop circling. Start climbing.
Because the mountain doesn’t move itself—and neither will your destiny.

SONGS OF THE DAY
Stevie Wonder - AS
 
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