As of late, an unlikely but inter-connected series of projects and pursuits have gotten me buried deep in all the things I really love to do. They’re community-based and local projects, I’m creating and executing research and business plans, making music and writing copy. Sometimes I look at my “To Do” list and think to myself how strange an wonderful to find such unlikely variety and unity across all the items.
Between now and the end of the year, I hope to share the results of the work that keeps me from writing too much for this blog. I am still writing, just in-progress and behind the scenes pieces that isn’t intended for public consumption. My plan is not linear, but interconnected in a way that makes it hard for me to articulate how they actually fit together. Perhaps I will write about the “eureka” moments that I experience (I have some in mind already from the interviews I’m doing for the Business of Music research). Perhaps from the random posts you will piece together a bigger picture of about what I’m working on.
The present is marked by feelings of excitement and anxiety and also of doubt as to whether I can actually make things happen; all the typical response we experience when we try something new. This feeling is familiar. I felt it on the first day I showed up for classes at the Faculty of Music, the first time I presented a paper at a conference, the first time I had to negotiate my wage. Right now, it also feels like a productive randomness, and I hope once I make some progress, I can look behind me and tell you retroactively what it was I was trying to do.
Until then, I will be busy embracing it.
