Momentum Around The Bend?

I am coming out of the gate in 2025 pretty strong. I hope you are, too. If you are not, allow me to be one person in your life who might pick your spirit up or take you deeper into your soul journey. It is not easy being human. This has been established from the first beginnings walking on two feet. I have read that there are theories that we sang, as humans, before we spoke, before the invention of language, we were humming and crying to each other, hoping our needs could be felt through our kindred animal hearts. Perhaps this is why music has always been such a gift, because even our survival may have depended on it.

I started out the gate strong, but make no mistake, I am also coming out of the gate understanding the trials I will undergo. For now, though, I will share what a day like today looks like:

I paid the rent! I am so grateful to be in this beautiful house! It is the best place - the best place - I have ever lived. It is built solid. It feels a little bit like a tree house, with its master bedroom downstairs with the laundry room and its living room, kitchen, living room, recording studio and another bedroom upstairs. The views from the windows of the upstairs are exhilarating, even now, in winter. And a parlor grand piano sits in the living room, constantly calling me to make something up. Outside, I have a cold plunge on a deck behind the house, and I get into it, most every day, feel the icy cold of 40 degree water, sit there soaking that up and come out, my body flooded with some of those good molecules we need to move towards beauty.

Within biking distance are the YMCA, the grocery stores I like to go to, the library, and downtown, places for coffee and friends. This is a kind of richness that I know many others may not have access to and all I can do, my people, is make the music. Make the music for the grief, make the music for the sorrow, make the music for the joy, make the music for the sense of calm we want to feel as we face whatever it is we have to face.

Today looks like a new plan for people to be able to give gifts of music, which I talk about here and here.

Today looks like a new poem I want to share with you, just below here.

And today will be about composing another piece for the woman who is the heartthrob of the man I wrote “Trial By Fire” for, a gift from her. I am behind on putting all these new pieces up on Spotify but that is coming soon.

The sun is out. I will take a break after a bit of time to go feel that. Sending you lots of love right along with you in this new year.