Posts tagged creative career
A Reluctant Calling

“Soul healing music” – that’s what the slightly shocked tourist at the airport called what I play as he dropped a bill into my guitar case.

“I wouldn’t expect to find you HERE!” he said, shaking his head, bemused but grateful.

It’s not that I heal anything, really. More like I affirm the humanity we go so much of our lives trying to cover up. In certain stressful places (like airports) hearing even that much of a reminder that we are OK as we are is profound.

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For the Black Sheep

It's the plot of countless holiday movies - successful, creative adult gets singled out as not good enough by their family because they have an unconventional career and are often single. After being worn down Holiday season after Holiday season they just want a break...so they lure someone in faking being their partner, only to fall in love for real and have all of their life tidied up so that next Christmas they can fit all of their families expectations for real.

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