Sunday, December 31, 2017

The Chrysalis Year

I started out 2017 with a New Year's Resolution to write a blog entry once a week. I kept it fairly consistent until about August than dropped the habit in favor of spending more time on song writing and life stuff.

This year was incredibly transformative and I'm super grateful for it. I'm in awe of all the things I achieved. 

-I wrote 28 original songs
-I wrote music for 14 songs for Feather's A Super Hero Musical
-I wrote music for 8 songs for LIVE's musical episode
-I dropped my office day job and went full time as a freelance musician and teacher
-I turned 30
-I got engaged
-I survived my first full year without my mom and wrote a lot of cool stuff

This has been such an awesome year and I look forward to what 2018 has in store. I may start blogging more consistently again. We'll see. Anyway I started the year with a poem and I'm ending it with a poem-


The Chrysalis year

This year was a Chrysalis year
Wriggling out of a room full of fears
Breaking thru anxiety
And shedding layers that no longer served me

This was a year to rise from the ashes
As I tend to do from time to time
And learn to fly holding my newfound resilience

Humans aren’t butterflies
There’s always another chance to change

We’re more like snakes
Shedding skin
There’s always another layer to let go
And it takes awhile to know
And trust the next step

I’m ready to keep flying forward
Letting the light shine brighter
Than ever before
Exploring all things unseen
Grateful for all the lessons I’ve learned
Looking forward to what’s around the corner

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