2025. I didn’t make any New Years Resolutions. I have recently started feeling the faint desire to rekindle my diminished friendship with music. For years I have referred to my musician days as “a past life”. I acknowledge that it existed, but if I’m being honest, I never liked that version of me.

My career took a pointed turn when my computer and problem solving skills took over. I consider myself lucky to have fallen backwards into such a fitting place.

I do have a knack for music, and I have had a long and strange relationship with it that, frankly, I wouldn’t expect anyone to understand. I have, on occasion tried to explain it to people, but I’ve come to terms with the fact that there is a perspective there that only few have.

That subject could probably end up becoming a book. Perhaps another day. At any rate, I kind of want to make it a goal to kind of make a do-over with music. I still have all of the knowledge. Theory, Tech, Chops, etc. I can play music. The next step would be to make music. In the later years of my previous life, I recorded an album with an incredible guitar player which had a lot of promise. As those things usually do, it fizzed out. It would be fun to take that approach again, but in a less pressure filled environment. Who knows, maybe actually try to have fun with it? A lot to unpack there I guess.

Well. If nothing else, it helped to talk through this with myself here. Some inspiration - based on the concert I went to the other day.