06.12.09
Wondering…
I was sitting on the couch playing my guitar this evening. My 2 year old son was sitting on the chair across from me playing “his” guitar (my baby Taylor). He would strum the guitar on his lap and sing along with me (using any words he could think of). He occasionally stopped to look at me with a huge grin on his face to say “I’m a good singer!”.
It was cute. What struck me was how much I don’t do this with him. In fact, I spend so much time working with technology that I sometimes stop feeling like a musician at all.
This evening was odd, because I suddenly felt inspired to do some of those musical things I had left behind to “be the good father & husband” and to “provide for my family”. All lies to myself. I was just afraid to allow myself to be the creative person I really am. And now I am feeling such a pull to be “the old Steve” and pursue that part of me again.
Oddly, this all comes on the heals of starting to take better care of myself; exercising regularly and eating better. Maybe that has something to do with it, maybe it doesn’t. All I know is that I feel inspired like I haven’t felt in a long time. So much so that I have decided to resurrect my second album project. I released my first album, Wasted Time, in 2000. I was planning on getting the second one out there in 2003. That never happened. I wrote songs for it, recorded some of them and then just became occupied with other things.
My thought right now is to work towards finishing the album and to then release it under the creative commons license to make it freely available for people to listen to.
Oh, and the working title for the second album has been Hurricane Season for years. I’m sticking with that…for now.
