A Year of Change

It’s been a week since my last post and I hardly even noticed. I’ve been head down in my work not paying attention to much other than my output which has been centered around music and specific projects.

Namely I am trying to build some momentum for a semi-regular live event I’ve started. Each event has a theme/goal, the first being improvisation, the second being freedom, and the third will be impact. I want to blow away everyone who walks in the door.

Not only does that require practice but it requires planning and leaving a breadcrumb trail. I’ve been posting short videos to get people used to my songs but also to rediscover my love for them, because the best way to move others is to be able to move yourself.

There is a deeper theme too but I can only share that with you after it’s done and right now it’s looking like mid February. I need to get three new songs ready and rearrange a bunch of old ones so this is going to be a lot of work.

Before I set some goals for the last year in a later post, I want to look at some of the things I’ve accomplished or done this year.

• I released my very first music on streaming platforms , the Sun Shone Blue EP. This was after 10 years of constipation on an album so it marked an end to the constipation.

• I became a force of nature. I no longer let trip ups trip me up. I am 100% dedicated to the life I chose and will keep going no matter what. It’s the first year of my life where depression and overwhelming anger or hopelessness played almost no part in my life.

• I made my first and second proper music videos and a bunch of shorts.

• i started playing shows again and started the series mentioned above which i had thought about for years.

• I started jamming on stage, and playibg electric guitar, something which had always felt far off to me.

• I travelled over a week for the first time in 5 years and went to my first music festival in Japan.

• I made an audiobook and uploaded it to ebook platforms! I even made the soundtrack for it. “confessions of the damafed 1.1”. I think two peoppe bought it lol

• I started learning Mali style guitar, completely by accident and learned about 6 songs.

• I learned about 3000 advanced level words in Japanese

• I helped put out a literal fire. Together with 3 other people we prevented the whole building from being burned down.

I devoted myself to music. You can see from this list. I still teach but it’s become half of what I do. When people ask what I do, I finally feel comfortable saying I make music and art first.

This is a big deal. I didn’t think I’d actually get here this year.

I suppose one of the goals for next year is to bring my income from music up to speed 🙃 but I have a feeing that won’t require much thinking, just doing.

There’s still a much bigger theme for next year but I will share that with you next time.

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