New Year New Post

I've been remiss of late, dear readers, in updating this blog. Seems as though this long winter won't ever end and grey skies keep coming. I've not been holed up like this for a very long time and it's not been without it's hardships.

When the light is grey, it's hard not to see all the negative things attached to this life. The aches and pains, the lack of 'fill in the blank', the yearning and the longing for something though that doesn't seem to be very clear. I envy the animals who can hibernate and sleep away this wintertime blues to awake to a spring fresh and alive with promise and life.

Living in this farmhouse has been trying at times. Missing the friends we hold dear on the other coast and not really wanting to move out of the house after the light fades makes for a poor social life.

But the end of our self-imposed isolation comes none too soon. We will be leaving in a little over six weeks to travel back across Canada to BC. Not sure what awaits us there but it is a decision we made.

We don't have a home to go home to. We're not sure what our musical path will be when we get there. And we're trying really hard not to think about the future too much.

We did manage to get a few gigs home so the trip expenses will have some respite. And we're playing in places we've never been - even better, new audiences, new experiences, new challenges.

Writing has been very slow..poetry mostly with the odd song lyric showing up. But it must be the time of the year, it's hard to stay focused on any one thing and make time for practice.

We cancelled our trip to Memphis, a sad thing, but necessary. We struggle with future thinking every day....trying hard to focus on the now and not worry about the future.

Life is never boring....sometimes.