No matter what day, what time, what year... challenges just present themselves. I have had a hard month because my long term promoter recently passed away. One day I'm making plans to set up a concert in Canada, then the next I'm scrambling to keep everything afloat while I deal with this loss which just came from out of nowhere. It truly is a testament to take life for what it's worth... to never create the drama, but to just live it. You know, cliche's have a bad connotation, and they shouldn't. When it comes down to it, sometimes we should truly just live as close to ideals as we can: "Never take anything for granted", "live life to its fullest", "love like you want to be loved - love with all of your heart" etc.
Lately, I have been going through some papers I wrote while I was in college, high school, and yes, earlier. They are bare, but they are also very good for me to get to know myself again. To realize where I came from. I actually have a lot of quotes from these papers... but I'll just have to use later posts to share them all. But, here are a few from my first semester in college:
I knew where I had to go. It is a place where I cannot open my eyes to see: a place where I can listen to the sound of silence. I can dream of all that I can never be and will always be; I can visit the places I will never see, yet I will remember the sights. The gentle, soft touch of music is my guide--the tears in my heart are my destination... it weeps when tears fall from my eyes. It comforts me when I am alone. It can pronounce my anger with its sound. It holds me when I need a friend. There, in the corner of my living room, my place exists and holds my heart. It also holds everything about me that words can't say.
Halcyon Days
I guess another recurring theme I use in my journal is what song I'm listening to. Right now it's Bruce Hornsby's "Halcyon Days." I really like the melody and words that accompany it: "some rise by wrong and some by virtue fall - and those in judgment could be guiltiest of all - wash it all away, I just love to bring you on a silver tray, some halcyon days..." Halcyon is: a fabled bird, identified with the kingfisher, that was supposed to have had the power to calm the wind and the waves while it nested on the sea during the winter solstice. I need me some tranquil, peaceful, and prosperous days. Don't we all...
Chad
Author: Chad Beall
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