Penny for Your Thoughts

One Saturday after a recording session, I was walking to meet a friend downtown, and I passed a penny-jingler on the street. I just kept walking past, and the man took me by absolute surprise when he paused and said, "Slow down...you always get there." As I continued toward the place I was meeting my friend, I thought, "Wow. He is totally right." For that moment, for the week, for the semester, for life and a career...what is all the hurrying about?

There is not a single path that is identical to another. We each have our own. Particularly in the arts, but honestly in anything. That path is unique to us; it becomes our legacy. Who we are and from where we've come, both figuratively and literally. Perhaps, it does not always define us, but it does form our character. No one can answer the questions for us or tell us what will be. Instead, it is our own discovery in our experience of life. As terrifying as that sounds, it is also pretty cool. You are unique; comparisons to others are superfluous. (Yes...guilty as charged when it comes to comparing one's self...)

So where does my path go? I don't know yet, and I am honestly tired of people asking me that question. It makes me want to retort with something like, "Well, do you know what you are going to have for lunch next Tuesday?!"

Whatever my path goes, it is going to be an adventure! (Because let's face it...there is no way it couldn't be when it involves klutzy me and the ridiculous things that happen to me...like getting locked out of the apartment because the door latched behind you, no one else home, and a dead cell phone locked inside the apartment...actually happened...last week...)

And it will be my adventure...which already continues every day...