A while back, I posted about listening back to my old old music, from recordings made in the 1990s, and how surreal that was.
This past week, I have been archiving this blog, in order to move this whole dang website to a new home, soundworkshealingarts.com, coming soon. It took a lot longer than it could have because I kept stopping to read stuff.
And wow, how weird is it that I don’t remember writing probably 60% of it? Stuff falls out of my fingers, but I am apparently not involved. Some other intelligence writes through me, using my voice, and I’m fine with it, honestly. Write on, Spirit Sib! Rarely do I ever set fingers to keyboard and have nothing happen. Somebody in here, or out, up, down, or over there, has got my back in the writing department and I am humbled and grateful to be an instrument.
My dear friend Sandy Kemp has been advising me for years to do a book collection of some of the best of my blog posts, and I have hemmed and dug my toe in the dirt … partly because, as a musical creator and artist, I already have so many unsold CDs and records clogging up my storage space and I really don’t want to move anymore of that kind of stuff. (My forthcoming new record, The Light You Can’t See In the Day, will be all digital for that very reason.)
But then my dear friend Raechel from Australia suggested audiobook, and all the synapses fired. I can do an audiobook. I have everything I need. I have recording gear, I can provide segue music, and I will have a webstore to sell it from! I can totally do that!
Sn now I’m reading every post, and putting them into buckets: Creativity, Magic, Pagan Stuff, Pagan Holidays, Healing, Repost, and No.
It’s gonna take a minute, because to date there are 190 posts from 2017 to now. Uffda. That’s a lot of words.
So what have I learned from this? Like with the previous post about listening to old stuff, I have seen myself become a better writer, and that’s a happiness. But the core of what I am passionate about and interested in is very consistent, though I do find new things to fold into my obsessive dot-connecting way of life often. It’s fun to remember stuff I was learning and doing. It’s also fun, and a little shocking, to discover insights I captured, put out into the world, and completely forgot about. That happened a few times. Eep. Ah well. I remember now.
So stay tuned, and I’ll let you know when this stuff becomes available. I hope at least one collection by Solstice, but who knows what life will have in waiting for me between now and then. I look forward to finding out!
