This was the fourth year of posting thoughts and reflections on making music with our lives, relationships, and businesses.
Thank you for your support and kind words. It is day one for all of us and that is great news.
Below you’ll find the most read and shared posts for 2015.
LTMP Podcast: Introduction to Let The Music Play.
The Uncertainty That Comes With The Alchemy of Our Days.
Everyday you’re counting something.
Question…on the average day what are you typically counting in your head before you fall asleep? Bad drivers? Offenders? Cash on hand? Calories? To dos, ta-das, or do-overs? The thing is, even when you get to infinity, there’s still another number that can go higher…infinity one, infinity two, etc.
This world of measurement leads to all forms of downward spiral thinking and living: us vs. them, greater than less than, insider/outsider, good guys-bad guys, worthy and unworthy, fame and shame…you get the picture.
Then there are those experiences that we forget to measure, but they’re always being noticed and tallied in the, often unnoticed, radars of our bodies and souls. Things like love, beauty, impact, hope, connection, and joy. The things that strike the chord deep within us.
Here, with these things, is where measurement becomes something different altogether. The cup that we start to measure with wonderfully increases capacity. The scale just says ‘yes’. The numbers we count by are the numbers ‘again’ and ‘again’. Yes, this is an ocean that only gets deeper with waves that only get better in water that only becomes more pleasant. And the weather here always suits the soul’s palate for that day.
We all want to unwrap something ‘more’ today and in all of our tomorrows, but more doesn’t need to be numeric or divisive.
More and more of less and less. Lighter and brighter. Music over noise.
One of our greatest gifts is our ability to adapt in the midst of change.
The true fear we have in the midst of change is actually a fear of the unknown. So we tend to fight, fly, or freeze when change and an unknown future is on the horizon.
Here’s the catch: change is the horizon. Your gift and reward is your adaption through this horizon.
Merry Christmas.
Here’s the good news, the answer to the question ‘what’s next’ is currently in you.
Have you noticed the trees recently?
The leaves are beautifully falling away right now, but where would you expect to find the next ones that are waiting to replace them?
On the inside.
Though outwardly we’re wasting away and losing our leaves, yet inwardly we’re being renewed and prepping for the next bloom.
So may you rake your leaves and be grateful for their role in this last season.
Just don’t keep trying to glue them back on.
…the often overlooked, not public, and soft art of being human.
Except for the recipient of your humanity…
They may never tell you, but rest assured, there’s a song called You that’s buzzing in their bones.
Ashton.Gustafson 