Thankful
Monday, August 3rd, 2009Hey everyone. What a ride. Five years ago I never could have imagined finding myself where I am now. I expect life will continue to send challenges my way to keep me humble. And those challenges do keep coming, and I continue to fall short in many ways. I am a human being. But these days it seems possible to me to imagine a dream and then step by step find my way towards it. . . with a lot of help from friends and a bit of luck.
Along the way I do find myself creating new assumptions for myself, new expectations, new little alliances and prejudices. But I guess each one will go the way of everything. . .nothing is permanent, I guess.
Today I will be performing in a little set of a big music festival. I have invited my brother, sister and daughter to take part with me in one song. It feels like the culmination of a dream. I know it won’t be perfect. But for so long I have wished that something like this could happen. And now it will.
Five years ago I felt like I was dying inside. I couldn’t find the door to open out into the world anymore. Then I made a couple of key decisions. I went back to the questions that I had asked myself when I was young about what I really wanted to do with my life. I gathered my courage and began step by step to take chances. And the world began to open to me. And I began to open to the world.
To anyone who is in the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania: please come and see me if you can this evening: August 3, 2009. I will be performing at Musikfest in Bethlehem, PA at the Lyrikplatz stage at 6:00 PM. Michelle who owns the Wildflower Cafe and Bill Medei who often hosts that open mike have created this opportunity for me and for four others who are performing on that stage this evening. The group of us begin at 5:00, and it ends at 9:30 or 10:00.
Thank you so much to everyone.

