1 post tagged “direction”

After my weekend on the beach (in my mind...), I've had a few thoughts come to me....

1. I would like to be in more contact with my family.
It takes a lot of work to meet up with extended family.  If I just "let it happen," it doesn't tend to happen.  I love seeing my brothers and sisters (on both my side and my wife's side) and I just don't do it enough.  I want to plan my life around that more.  Plan out a year by who we're going to visit.

2. My relaxing activity: cooking
I like to cook.  I'm not particularly good at it, and I don't have any aspirations of being an amazing cook.  Maybe that's one reason this popped into my head this weekend: it's an activity that I can just enjoy without getting into my (typical habit of) critical thinking.  It's so much fun to find some fresh ingredients and cook them up into something tasty.  I haven't really cooked much over the last year. I love sampling different olive oils, types of rice, breads, spices, cheeses, chocolate...I want to learn how to cook tapas.

3. Music is my hobby
I've been putting too much pressure on my music, and that's led me to lose direction.  I play and compose because I like it.  I don't need any other reason.  When I get too many ideas about what I'm trying to accomplish, I lose out on the artistic side, and the self-expression side.  I have other parts of my life that are governed by goals, deadlines, and accomplishments; and in those areas, that's fine.  Music is fun.

4. Time to launch the art festival
Quite a while back I had an idea of holding a Christian art festival at our church.  The idea is this: order a hundred pizzas, set up the stage for bands to play, for open mic, and for poetry readings.  Have the projector showing paintings, movies, and any other visual arts.  Maybe some workshops.... And just invite everybody who loves art to come and eat pizza, mingle, and enjoy the show.

The pastor is all for it; I've talked to people at church that I think would like to be involved and they are very excited about it.  I'm going to call a meeting and begin planning.