No condition is permanent...

Even when you do your best to make it so...

I have made so many vows over the years to write more frequently and though I have not adhered at all that isn't going to stop me from making one more...only I am going to approach it a little differently which is less writing only when in the mood and a more structured organised setting a timetable approach.

Yes I am going to attempt to write on a schedule and get a post up at least once a week. And not just any random stream of consciousness type of post about nothing at all.

What spurred this you may wonder...well it's following on from my appreciation of the musical geniuses in my last post. It got me to thinking...we are all blessed and talented in our own way and just because we do not create musical masterpieces does not mean that we are less in any way than those who do. What limits us is the way in which we choose to use our time and live our lives.

And for me personally, I have spent too much damn time on the hamster wheel going round and round and round, doing the same damn thing, following the same damn routine. I have gotten comfortable and it's not even a satisfactory comfort at that so why am I still going round this damn wheel?

Well it's time to get off and get out of my own way. So here are the three things I plan to do...

1. Something new - a place, a book, a song...anything at all, only rule is it has to be a new experience for me.
2. Re-connect - I have let relationships slide, I need to pick them back up. 
3. Be thankful - no matter how small, I need to be more thankful and less wishful.

Now some of it I will document, most likely numbers 1 and 3, but whatever the case I will try my best to write more. It's something I have always loved doing so why I have let it slide all these years beats me.

Anyway so that's it for this night. Here's hoping for a more fulfilled future.

Xx

If music be the food of love, play on

Late this afternoon as I cleaned my home I put my iTunes playlist on loud and Diamonds and Pearls came on and whilst I am not the greatest Prince fan the song did give me a pause as I remembered his untimely death and it made me remember Michael Jackson's death and FYI HUGE MJ fan over here. So one thing led to the other and I stopped cleaning and fell down the YouTube rabbit hole watching music vids from MJ and Prince. And then the vid of John Mayer playing Human Nature at MJs memorial came on (I would pay good money for JM to release his version...hauntingly good!). Anyway that led to watching John Mayer vids all the way back to Your body is a Wonderland but then I stumbled upon JM and BB King...wow!

Just wow!

It's now 9pm and I am onto Eric Clapton after a brief stopover with Norah Jones. Speaking of Norah I remember when I had her Come Away with Me album on constant replay back in the early noughties but I had to forcibly stop listening to it because mehn the lyrics, the notes, the feelings invoked...my heart couldn't take it after a while.

Ironically I find that the music I really really like, the best for me is also the worst because the kind of songs I love are the ones that make you feel deeply, that turn you introspective. And sometimes I kinda don't want to know what's going on with URO.

But back to these amazingly talented individuals who create this....I don't even know what word(s) to use...heaven on earth and allow us to play in it. I am in absolute awe at the work of their hands and the belief and dedication it takes to produce these works. That they are human like me makes me more aware of my own lack of genius.

But that I am allowed to partake in their world, for that I am ever thankful. And on that note YouTube is now playing Eric Clapton's Change the World and I think that's a great place to end this post. Eric, Prince, MJ, JM, etc..... thanks for bringing sunlight to my universe...

Xx