Gratitude

I am grateful for my true friends. I am grateful for being able to swim in the ocean. I am grateful for having a place to get away to. I am grateful for my family. I am grateful for all of the possibilities that I can see and that I can not even imagine. I am grateful for a 6th sense which I unfortunately have not been taking full advantage of. I am grateful for people that point out what actually is when I'd sometimes rather bury my head into the sand or under the covers. I am grateful for the good people that help me walk forward. I am grateful for those people I call the balance. The balance people are there when you have had a horrible day or painful experience and out of the blue, the balance people do a good deed,usually unexpected, and get you through. I don't know what you believe in, but I do believe that someone is watching out for you at times. Making sure you know that someone does care.

There are some strange things that go on in this world. There are some really strange,cold,callous people. Being a good person, I think it is harder for me to understand them even more sometimes, but I am aware that those forces are a part of life as well as much as I wish they were not. I sometimes wonder WHY and HOW( How can they, why would they) way too much. I know things just are the way they are sometimes, but what purpose do the cruel really serve? Can't we just send them out to space or something? They can be exhausting at times.

This photograph was taken by Nathan Fitch.

I am in still in love with music. Don't ever get that twisted.

We had a really fun jam tonight on the roof. I can't believe the neighbors did not call the cops. Steve Marshall was the ring leader.I had so many belly laughs. I love improvising with the guys. That is probably the most fun for me. We were cracking each other up. We were doing parodies of songs with serious gutter humor. It was awesome.

Never am I as happy as when I am singing. It is when I feel at one with the universe. Music is so pure. It is more honest than any lover could be. I am so at peace when I am singing. If you are singing from your heart, people can relate to it. I love it so much.More than life itself.

Sometimes what seems like a setback is an opportunity, a stepping stone for something much,much greater. When a woman gives birth, her body stretches and if she is not on anesthesia, she feel a great deal of pain as she is giving birth to her baby, but when it is born, it is so beautiful. It was created by her. It was born with her pushes, through pain and perseverance, because she and her body know that it has to be born.

Georgia' s Bday

Georgia had a great turn out. She as always put on a great show. A good part of it was letting the fellas in the band have it for not following all of her cues. It was fun and funny. I sang "Feeling Good". Stew and I had a very dry run through before. It was good.It could have been better. Then Georgia sang "I Feel Good" to get the momentum back up again. I sang background vocals for her and I was between two saxophone players. Saxophones are vocals when you think about it. There were two. One was from Australia. He was easy on the eyes and ears. He liked to be near the crowd. The other sax player liked to be closer to the band. He knew all of the licks for the covers.