A Hundred Billion Castaways

 

Keep the creative spark burning.

I’ve been quietly crafting this mini-blog as a way of motivating myself and other mothers to keep the creative spark alive.  I was profoundly blessed in 2010 with the birth of my children and a new job that came to me, serendipitously, allowing my family to relocate.  2010 was also rough on me.  I had two surgeries (still recovering from the second one which was a couple of weeks ago) and the addition of twins has introduced all sorts of new stressors.  I’m embarrassed by how long it’s been since I’ve visited my home studio but over the past month or so, melodies and lyrics keep invading my brain and the music has to come out.  It often feels like I have no room in my life to do another thing but as I inch my way back to the music, I’m realizing that I don’t have much of a life without it.  It makes me a happier person, a better mother, and more cheerful partner.  I’m certain that I’m not the only mom who feels that way. You may “make music” in a different way:  painting, crocheting, writing poetry, or just enjoying and pondering a novel or article you read in the newspaper.   The point is that it has to happen and there is no right or wrong way for it to happen.   If I can’t sit down at my keyboard for a couple of hours, then maybe I just have to record a melody into my phone as a voice memo.  Maybe I just take 10 minutes and write a list of the songs I want to download, the people I want to contact, the blog posts I want to read that will keep me moving in the right direction.  I have faith that if I hold and express my intention, then do whatever I can manage, no matter how small the step, the universe will do the rest and I’ll get there.


So excited about the New Year!  Happy 2011!

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