Apparently it’s January.
I should make some resolutions
Find a tag phrase
Mark my achievements
Notice shortfalls.
Make a plan
Move into action
Kick the habit
Start the swimming.
Open up
Define my boundaries.
Smile more
Feel the grief
Smile more
Feel the grief
Smile more
Feel the
I’ve a song here that I wrote, arranged and set to sound in 2021. It’s a lullaby to encourage a tired and tried love to sleep. It was probably about someone I loved. What it’s really about though, is allowing what’s passed to rest.
As we move into this new year, I find that resolutions and action plans aren’t making any sense to me, not without first releasing what’s passed. And, as I listen to this song about the best that could be mustered, I work to own the lessons I have been trying to teach myself. They are in the words I use.
In this new year, I attempt less estimation. I attempt more specificity and, where estimates are all I have, I endeavour to move with hope; with trust that the desired outcome is possible.
I hope this song touches you somehow. It’s the original and first recording, although the production value is higher than many of my other home recordings. As with most of my work, I used my own voice in GarageBand.
You could do this too! Any tool that allows an encounter with one’s own voice, taken at one’s own comfortable pace, can be a rich experience. Sometimes it can feel excruciating. Listening or reading back with honesty, like looking back at a past relationship, or year, can illuminate one’s limits, shortcomings and flaws. It can also be a magnificent mirror though, allowing us to notice the ways in which we judge ourself. And we can learn, we can learn, and the more we do, the more we might discern beauty.
Listen to Estimate on Soundcloud here
With hope for the new year :) x
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