Ready?

By now we’ve resolved that we’re up for trying again to get it right. Like the cargo ship pictured above, we’re loaded up and headed out to the sea of life seeking adventure and good fortune beginning on this new year’s day of 2010.

I was a young songwriter when I wrote these lyrics to one of my compositions entitled, “The Peaceful Ship.”

The Peaceful Ship.
Strong with tradition
yet open to a new sea of ideas
where gulls make leave their pleasant homes.

It was about being willing to take risks and go outside our comfort zones (a.k.a. laziness and status quo) in order to find ways to enhance ourselves and hopefully those we come into contact with. A lofty task for a fifteen year old? Not so much. I think it more risky to be willing to expose one’s feelings in such an uncontrolled public forum as the Internet. At the risk of even one person “getting it,” I put myself at risk.

My good friend and talented professional musician-buddy Dan Bates told me that even when playing gigs in clubs where the house (number of people in the room) is small, the music your putting out there will affect someone in a positive way. He went on to say, “that counts!” Yeah Dan.