Earlier today, thanks to the miracles of facebook news feed, I saw that a friend's song is now available for purchase on iTunes. I've been trying to shove this music down people's throats for months now, so I was excited to finally have a convenient way to add it to my iPod's mix (the easier to commute by).
Then I thought to myself, How perfect! I'm grateful for Erika Fatale (Rodger) and for all the creative people I know who have the guts to go out and really make it work Then I thought to myself, wait a minute--I already wrote that blog entry about Jack Roberts and The Study Band. And I could write it about Jared Bartman. And probably countless others.
In my head, it was set. I would write about creative people and link the blog back to my old blog. Simple.
It wasn't until I just went back and looked that I realized that I wrote that other blog entry almost a year ago today. Maybe there's something about this time of year that makes me yearn for something more creative. I can tell you that I wrote the original "creative people" surrounded by ungraded speeches with the threat of a thesis hanging over my head. I'm writing this entry surrounded by ungraded papers and the threat of unfinished laundry and an unwritten conference presentation. The situations certainly sound similar but I think what is really happening is I'm yearning for a world of different possibilities. And I think it's a world where "the dream" isn't dead. Where having a crazy dream doesn't mean you are crazy but that you have integrity of thought, mind, and action.
People like Jack and Erika remind me (once a year, apparently) that dreams are still floating around out there. All you have to do is grab one and hold on (and then work your ass off).
But that's why I started this blog, so that I would write every day. Day ten and still kicking. So thanks for reading.
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