Guitar Blues

I am LOVING my guitar class!! Learning to play the guitar is one of my dreams and it fits so nicely into the degree I'm working towards (Early Childhood Education) since I can play songs for the children that I enrolled in a guitar class this semester. We're several weeks into the class and I've learned so much! I'm actually starting to sound a little bit like I know what I'm doing! I'm learning the classical guitar style so it's mostly all finger-picking (as opposed to using a pick) and we play both the melody and the bass parts with our right hand simultaneously - fingers play melody + thumb strumming bass. It's really cool!

My guitar looks like this one and sounds so rich and full. I love it!

So one of the first songs I learned was a blues piece called the Blues 4-Beat Lick. I've played it for the children in our child care and preschool and they just love to dance around to it. I've also played a few of the classical pieces at the end of lunch and beginning of nap time. It's so peaceful and beautiful that it really helps calm them down and lull them to sleep.

Anyway, there's an update on working towards my dreams. :)

Dreams

I lived in LA once. I was single then. There was a group of other young, single adults that got together on a regular basis. Some of them formed a group to help each other reach their dreams. I forget the name of the group - Dream Team or the Dreamers or something like that. But they figured that with the 50+ members in the group there was bound to be someone else there that could help you reach at least one of your goals.

There's this great Jack Johnson song that goes...

A dreams a dream
And all this livings so much harder than it seems
But girl don't let your dreams be dreams
You know this livings not so hard as it seems
Don't let your dreams be dreams

here are my dreams, in no particular order...

• get barrelled surfing
• make the short surf film Watermark that I wrote
• get my children's books published
• play the guitar well
• play the piano well

• go sailing for my first time
• sail down the coast to Mexico
• go on an open-ocean sailing voyage
• sail around the world
• have children

• become fluent in another language
• be able to do a pull-up
• run a marathon
• create a frame-worthy painting
• sew an article of clothing at least once a month

• become good at cross-stepping on a longboard
• hang 10 longboarding
• bust the fins out shortboarding
• windsurf on a regular basis
• do yoga every day

 I'm currently working on several of these dreams. But any help and inspiration from others is welcome and greatly appreciated. I think I'll post them in the sidebar and ceremoniously cross them off as I achieve each one.

What are your dreams? What can I do for you? What can we help achieve together?

Hello, again

jour·ney/ˈdʒɜrni/ Show Spelled

–noun

1. a traveling from one place to another, usually taking a rather long time; trip

2. a distance, course, or area traveled or suitable for traveling

3. a period of travel

4. passage or progress from one stage to another

I've been away for a while. I was physically away, in another country; then I was mentally away, lost somewhere inside my mind. But I'm slowly coming back to myself. I feel as though I've traveled a long road only to find myself back where I started. As T.S. Elliot said,

"and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."

Well, I'm not done exploring but I am rediscovering who I am and what I want from life. I'm ready for a fresh start. I have no expectations, only hope. Hope of reaching each new day just happy to be alive and sharing it with those I love. I hope to share each new discovery with you along the way...

 (a little inspiration from this etsy shop...)