I finally wrote a song with words about two or three months ago after struggling for a really long time to commit to a particular idea. Here are the lyrics:

As a child I went out to roam and explore
Took on new inspirations, no fear in my soul
I loved to run and to sing and to dance and to give.
Like so many the years have pressed in on my soul
I have narrowed my vision to what I could hold
On the teaspoon of acceptable practical logical form.

I am free now.
I can see now.
It’s the breeze now
From the sea now.
All around me.
Come around me.
Come and hear me.
I have found thee.

Lines and measurements, gridlock to life
I am bursting through boundaries just like a knife
An explosion of pent up will and intention and love.
Please open your eyes and open your ears
I really want to calm your fears
Let the love and the light flow full force from within.

I am free now.
I can see now.
It’s the breeze now
From the sea now.
All around me
Come around me.
Come and hear me.
I have found thee, I have found thee!

Sometimes when I look at myself and what I have been doing about my own pain and need, I see myself as a psychologically challenged person who is acting out how she needs to. There may be some truth to that point of view. But if I look at that same thing from what I believe to be an even wider perspective, I think that my challenge is a shared challenge. I believe that most of us are in pain and are on a quest for finding peace within and without. Maybe if I share my perspective, however faulty and Suzielike it may be, and share it from as deep a place as I can, maybe I will provide hope and courage to someone else to take a chance also.

I find that as I go along this path that I am following I am meeting some incredible people. Now my challenge is to open myself to learning new things. I have something to say and now that I have said it, it is time for me to listen. Please folks, feel free to contribute your thoughts.

OK folks so here I am sitting at my computer. My cat Abby is on the desk in front of me waiting to be petted. My dog Dakota is on the floor hoping that sometime I’ll be done and take him out for a walk. My kids are both upstairs in their rooms with their own routines. And here I sit typing.

Yes, I love to reflect. And I love to send what’s in me out through my music. But the cat, the dog, my kids, the pile of mail on the floor, the dishes and all of that is here too. And it is as it should be. I spoke briefly in one of my entries about coming down to earth. OK. Out of my brain and into the world!

Speaking of procrastination, check this out, folks:

And that is what it is all about for me. . . Hello World, but revised. . . This is how I am feeling these days. And much of this can be expressed and experienced through music. I think that a lot of people are feeling a sense of renewal these days. And I have great hope for all of us. What appears on the surface is not always to be relied upon. I think that we are emergent. The surface is sometimes just a hardened shell that will soon be cast aside. Like the shell of an egg. And what better way to bring along a birth but through the joy of music.