prepare today for the open door tomorrow

I'm off towards a new adventure tomorrow before I re-enter the mundane world of the working. I hold no ill will towards the hard working so do not get me wrong but having taken a break for almost 4 weeks was great. Granted, in the back of my mind I wanted a job. Go figure! But the fact is, I'm going back and having been re-energized after a years of being pounded into nothing, I'm actually looking forward to working. Though honestly speaking, it may not be what I REALLY want to do, but that's me judging the soon to be workplace so its really not fair. Let me say this though --you'll never know right?

I'm boarding a plane tomorrow, for that adventure and my destination, Tampa. I'm visiting my cousin Archie who is getting married on Saturday. I'm also meeting up with my old pal Mel whom I haven't seen forever. It saddens me that she's being shipped to Iraq though her status was changed to reserves. They activated her again and she had to withdraw from school and leave behind friends she talked into moving to Tampa with her. Which blows really. She really wanted to finish school. I'm a little mad about it but it's out of her hands. This in turn has engraved even more in me that my vote does count and I need to go to the polls in November to be heard. I encourage everyone to do so as well.

Anyway, I decided today and I've actually verbalized it to my mother that I intend to write as many songs as I can and when I have enough decent songs, then I would hopefully have saved enough money to record them and then maybe get enough courage to send it out to people to hear. Mom asked who would play music, I figured, I would and maybe talk my guitar teacher Wes into contributing and maybe my friend Justin for base. Percussion? Well, I have yet to figure that out. But that's down the road and the exact details are yet to be smoothed out. But at least the goal is there and I'm trying.

I have one song written. It's titled "Silence." Those who have heard it liked it and my cousin Jacob said that it sound something Norah Jones would write. I'll definitely take that as a compliment for I like her music. It may however turn off some people but who care? I like it, so zip it! I do have some chords that I like that I'm playing around with and hopefully, I can actually remember enough of the words that I spontaneously sing when I do play. I should really listen to Wes when he says to have the tape recorder on when I putz around with the guitar. I'll have to remember that. But the songs are there, I can feel it inside me. It's just a matter of finding the right way to express it, musically. Who knows what would happen right? So long as I work on what I love, when the opportunity comes, I'm set. "Today Matters" and we need to prepare for tomorrow, today. I honestly believe that. Just like what happened with Josh Grobin . He has been training as a singer forever and when the opportunity came to stand in for Andrea Bocelli, for his duet with Celine Dion, "The Prayer," well --the rest is history I should say. It rocked. I love that song. But the morale as I have said is prepare for when the door does open, you are ready. That's the motto right? Be prepared.