COURAGE! YEOW!

Soooo... I am a musician... and a painter... and other things, too. I guess we should never be labeled just one thing... it could be mentally limiting. ANYWAY... what I was going to say is this: I am a musician. I just put out my first CD this last November, and I just got some photos from the cd release party that a friend of mine took... yesterday.

I have to say, it's the strangest thing to see photos of that event so long after it happened. All the craziness and excitement around that day is long-passed. It's wierd... like looking at someone else be on stage as the centre of attention (something that kind of freaks me out). I look pretty chill somehow.

This music-thing is so strange. Never thought I'd be doing performances and making an actual album, but I think if I had never done it, I would always be wishing I had had the courage to do so. You kind of have to get over the fact that you are not perfect... not the perfect musician, not the perfect performer, not the perfect writer, not the perfect singer, etc... but once you let that go, it's kind of an interesting and fun journey. And if you get just 1 or 2 people who encourage you, and maybe a few more people who even like your music, then you seem to have just enough juice to keep going.

I'm making this sound very unappealing and really a struggle. I guess I'm in limbo-land with music right now. That's why. I haven't written in a while, and I should be doing shows, but it's like biting on my own tongue to make the calls to book some. I guess it comes back to that courage thing again... COURAGE, ANNA!

Now, I'm going to pull a Garnet Campbell here... he always turns his conversations into preaches....

Maybe there's something you feel a bit afraid to do in life, but you know that it would fulfill your deepest desires to do... well, I say COURAGE to you, in Jesus' name. Yeah. Preach it.