I am idealistic, hopeplessly optimistic, and been called naive by some I love, but......

(another sporadically deep process of thought on this dreary Winter day of January 2012)
to the artist who writes and sings...............


I absolutely love creative people. Music and art are funny things. We have art teachers and vocal coaches and those who are good and sometimes great at helping some "rise above the rest" to perform their art in a manner that a certain demographic of people will pay alot of money to see, support, and freely promote. What does it really mean? I see so much on so many different levels of a few people who THINK they have what it takes for YOU the musician to "make it big". Twist it, tighten it, color it up til it isn't what it was born to be so it looks and acts and breathes like something else they know that glitters. I am sorry that I would rather sit in the bus station in South Louisiana and listen to an old black man sing about his life travels rather than pay 25.00-200.00 to get in to an arena to see a fraction of what could be only to have that money used to kill and distort the musician and music that was gifted to that person in the first place. That is not to say that some do rise on what they are and see "fame" without distortion. It is not the norm from my observations.

I absolutely love wildflowers..some, who know me, would not be surprised in the least. I love wildflowers because their beauty is untamed and free. Music, when sang by those who feel it, live it, love it, cry with and for it, die in it, and share it are much like wildflowers. The "scene" that some want to cover and write about and be close to for personal gain, is not as interesting as the alternative. If you write, please write for those like myself who want to hear what you have to say.:) Sing it, whisper it, scream it, laugh it out loud, but don't give up no matter what.  I personally don't ever want to be stuck with the twisted and tainted-ly changed to fit an other's prideful interpretation of what you write. This does not include co writing by the way which I find more and more fascinating each time I am witness to it. We speak to one another on different occasions and have great conversations, but there is something about having a song written to and for you that is special. Beautiful. All those I call friends who understand this, thank you for giving to the rest of us a piece of yourself or your life.

Absolutely beautiful.

Does anyone observe what I see too?

Music is truly an undefinable art of soulful expression......some will get yours, others will not.