What Matters To You?
Well, with the majority of shows behind us, and a quick trip home for two awesome concerts, a festival, and some much needed kisses, I at last have time to settle down and write a blog.
So here I sit, in a café looking out at a rambling old cemetery, on a beautiful sunny Portland afternoon, with green everywhere, and I am again struck by how grateful I am to get to do this.
My second album with Thorn, Songs for the Strengthening Sun, is doing well right out of the gate, and it is time now to turn my attentions to finishing the Pandemonaeon album Winter and I have been promising for so long!
So I spend my days hiking, exploring, and writing songs. And in fact, therein lies a challenge! To write a song that you will actually want to sing many times over, that you will want to have associated with you for the rest of your life, is no small feat!
It causes one to consider what things really matter in life, and is very much a magickal act in my eyes. It puts one in a state of self-reflection first, and then creation second. It hones Will, focus, and craft.
Some things that matter to me are – divine inspiration, becoming as the Gods, being masters of our own destiny, contributing to the beauty in the world, striving always to become greater than we are, meeting life with passion and fierceness and zest, drinking as deeply of the font of life as we can. Finding the epic arc of our own lives, becoming a great hero or heroine in a life that matters.
These are the things I think about – and strive to represent in meter and rhyme – when I write, and as such they give me occasion to muse on my own life and how skillfully I am crafting an epic life.
This is something I wish for each and every one of us, and encourage us all not to give up, though we may feel disheartened or far from a life with meaning. But it is the quest, not the end, that shapes meaningful destiny, and I encourage and cheer each of you – and myself – on, to take even a few small steps every day toward reflecting on that which feels most important to you and how you may best participate in bringing that further into fruition. We all deserve epic lives. In fact, I believe it is ours for the claiming!
Alright then – off to figure out how to say something like that in meter and rhyme!
