First Monday of the month, new Hum Love playlist on Spotify and Apple
It’s a big question, ‘why are we all here’…but there’s a couple categories that are at least a part of the answer…
To make and make new again.
To create and recreate.
To build and rebuild.
We make songs, relationships, videos, vacations, dinner, bands...and then when they fracture and get messed up and completely fall apart…they can be made new.
If you’re a famous chef and you have people over for dinner, your guests are excited about all that you’ve achieved over the years and feel really special for getting to be associated with you.
But what they really hope is that dinner is good.
That’s the deal for a chef…you have to be able to do it again tonight. Tonight’s dinner doesn’t magically get world class because you cooked three good ones two weeks ago.
Should musicians and songwriters be paid more?
Should teachers be paid more?
Should therapists be paid more?
I think we know the answers…because how much is real change worth? It’s worth infinity.
This isn’t a license to complain that you don’t get paid enough. It’s to recognize that if everything goes right, your effect will always outpace your earnings.
We know after the third chorus that the end is likely near.
It doesn’t have to be that way but that’s the way it is. It makes sense to us because we’ve heard it that way thousands of times in our lives.
Of course rules were meant to be broken. And this one often is…in wonderful ways…and in ways that are confusing and off putting to the listener.
Three choruses just makes sense and connects to most listeners. So if you’re having a hard time connecting, funnel your creativity into this tried and true rule.
A lot of us get caught up in the ‘opening’ part of opening presents.
During the opening, the excitement level is at an all time high…our imagination is running completely wild and free. Anything could be in that box. So we fill it with every hope and expectation possible. Maybe this one will be the one.
And then we are finished opening the gift and we’re simply left with the gift. The actual thing.
The new gift (i.e. the new opportunity, the actual conversation, the way the event turned out in real life) alters reality not in an imaginary way but in an actual way. And we have to deal with the truth instead of what we hoped the truth might be.
The truth, the reality, the actual gift is often different than what we hoped for but it’s real. And that’s a gift.