over and over

She took her time examining it, turning it over and over again, as if she had never opened an envelope before.

The four of them sang it over and over again as they marched through the eerily quiet halls, all the way to Miss Mortimer’s office.

The Chili Peppers sang—“Around the World,” “Parallel Universe,” “Scar Tissue,” “Otherside”—over and over and over.

“You are no better than anyone else, but nobody else is better than you,” Daddy would emphasize to us over and over, even as he guided us to understand the restrictions of segregation.

For Bruckner, rising melodic scales, humongous fanfares with trumpets and horns and Wagner tubas galore and repeated patterns over and over by an unstoppable orchestra serve as injections of musical endorphins.