'Till Next Time...

Well, as a follow up to my last post:  Ben's first pitch has been rescheduled to THIS friday.  Stay tuned for that! So instead of going to the game last Friday, I went and got coffee with him instead.  It was then that I had the pleasure of hearing some of the mixes of his album Ivan Strega.  DANG!  That's all I can say that would be radio-friendly.  It sounds great.  It sounds different, cohesive, completely his own flavor and sound.  It is going to be a great album :)  We also talked about playing some shows together in the future, which I will naturally keep everyone updated on when we do.
But to begin a new post: I read The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde last night, all in one sitting.  Great book.  And I was indeed taken by the concept of human duality.  Only it made me think that I am more of the trinity type.  Home, creativity, and performance.  Those are my three.  And while they all feed and nurture each other, they also fight terribly.  There is only so much time in a day, and only so many days in my life... It can be quite a struggle for me to feel fulfilled and at peace when I am being tugged in so many directions.  This has always been the case for me, I have always been juggling a sort of trinity in myself.  The domestic, the magician, and the mime... And then there are such things as distractions, both worthy and unworthy of my attention that I must tend to as well...  What I am trying to say, is that I struggle constantly to make peace and harmony out of these three.  And through it all, I struggle even harder to lift everyone else above me to their own peace.  I suppose that you could say that transcendence is my goal.   More for others than for myself.  But I also frown on talkers who don't walk their own talk.  So the only option left for me is to hope that I can find transcendence in myself and that others will follow suite.  It is a mad, sad, and sick world out there right now.  And the hardest thing for me to do is to help myself, when all I really want is for others to get the help that they need.  But I suppose truth has never been an easy pursuit, nor is it easy to  find it through art.  And so I will leave you with the fact that I am trying, and hopefully someday I will find what it is that I am looking for, so I can clue everyone else in.  But until next time, wish me luck in my madcap ways, as I promise that they are intended to be fruitful.

xo
-Dion