Give whimsy some space. You’ll be glad you did today and even more glad, looking back, tomorrow.
Let love do its thing. Fall into it. Take part in it. Let it lead you. It’s the glue of memory.
Let your music play and get lost in it. How great would it be to look back at a day, week, month, year, or decade and be able to claim it felt symphonic?
Full is the man that often recalls ‘remember when?’.
Alas, I’m glad I did > I wish I had.
Footnote: You are the contingency of your experience.
If at all possible give altruism a role in the music you make.
Success in parenting is clothed with altruism.
Success in relationships and friendships is colored with altruism.
Success in marriage is bonded with altruism.
And ‘good business’ is what we say when we exchange altruism for a profit.
Altruism. A word we should ponder and pursue more often in the themes, feelings, and vibes within the music made of our days.
The world’s arms are open wide for such a cause.
Can you locate your fulfillment?
Can you name the geocodes for your purpose?
Where do you go to make your art?
What’s the place look like that makes you sing?
There.
You.
Go.
“I’m right, you’re wrong.”
“But…”
‘He said – she said.’
“That’s not fair.”
“Lucky him.”
“Lucky her.”
Notice there is no ‘togetherness’ in these statements, lies, ideas, and excuses.
These are simply the statements that lead to the noise in our lives, families, and businesses. They do nothing well other than one thing – separate us.
The best songs are the ones where you get the sense the writer is holding your hand and saying ‘let’s do this or figure this thing out together.’
To be human, at the core, is to be in and experience something together.
Let the lines fade and let the music play.
Victor Hugo once said ‘music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.’
The same can be said for our lives.
In the end, your music will be what we call your life and your life will be what we call (and what you call) your music.
Few of our spoken words will hang frozen in time, but our action and love will echo for ages.
Couple this idea with Shakespeare’s thoughts, ‘If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it.” This now takes us into the law of reciprocation in which all areas of our lives can benefit.
The pursuit of more life begets a deeper and wider life.
The pursuit of more love begets deeper and wider love.
The pursuit of more music begets deeper and wider music (remember, this is that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent).
More X More = More and More and More and More.
Life, love, and music, when pursued, reciprocate the pursuit with themselves and there’s a fountain flowing deep and wide.
Ashton.Gustafson 