Where to Start

For those of you who don't know me personally, I relentlessly overanalyze my work; Needless to say I've gone through several drafts of this first blog. Each version is completely different, and none of those rejects will ever see the light of day. With every new draft I kept thinking to myself, why the fuss? it's not that serious. Eventually I convinced myself that I didn't have anything important to say, nothing that couldn't go unread, no cure for cancer. But then today I was listening to Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock" and the lyrics haunted me: 

We are stardust

We are golden

And we've got to get ourselves

Back to the garden

  

The song is inspiring and these particular lines made me realize that although we are all on different paths, in many ways we are on the same journey. We are all dust but for the short time given to us on this earth and in our time we all make a tiny footprint, our contribution to the universe. Music is my path and contribution, but my journey, like so many, is a quest for purpose, love, happiness, and fulfillment. And when I thought about it that way, the intimidating gap between me-the-artist and you-the-audience narrowed to nil.

So I'm starting the blog... And however minuscule my footprint may be in the scope of time (or other footprints), this is one attempt to dig my heels in a little deeper while I can. 

Here I will share my thoughts and recount the exciting, unfortunate and random events of my daily life. I suspect it will turn out to be more of a stream of consciousness than anything else. At the very least, I'm happy to entertain, but my real hope is that you will find we have something truly meaningful in common.