Next week I shall be undertaking the beginning of the new project. Not quite on a ‘A Wing and a Prayer’ basis, but still the unknown presence of saying to myself ‘Do I have self ability to get this thing done?’
For months on end now, it has involved planning to create this intention of specific purpose. The VeeDub Bus becoming the focal point of the Cloud 9 songwriting, recording, playing and singing in the open air project.
Involving a ‘My Dream Map’ consideration from the guidance book by John C. Maxwell it has been good to focus on what needs should be met. Ten different questions regarding stages to follow from:
#1 commitment to #10 reality.
When asked, with guidance considerations for answers ‘Is my dream really my dream?’ to ‘Does my dream benefit others?’ and all the in between questions….. you can focus on essential specifics.
You find yourself ruminating quite a lot. If you have a purpose in life? Then you have to find value and self promise in what you want to get out of life. As the lyrics in my YouTube video upload state:
‘I’m caught in a passage of time. I’m moving all the way to a better place, I can call mine’.
Writing this song was a period of life where I wanted to move from situations I called ‘Wind of Sorrows’. Negativity to Positivity. A lyric I wrote back in the 1970s. In the song where it says:
‘I call your name, down through the wind of sorrows. I call out loud, until I can’t face any tomorrow’s. But Oh no. Not me! Oh no can’t you see?’
This is actually myself talking to myself. Wagging a stern finger.
Then follows the positivity of :
‘I’m moving to the rhythm of life, caught in a passage of time. Moving all the way to a better place, etc.’
Life’s perfect place? Ultimately?
‘I’ll call it Home’.
Home can be anywhere that matters personally and where your soul feels both alive and calm. Of course, you here (my WP friends) know that Billie Cloud 9 is considered ‘The Green Sanctuary’ in life. And the project, ‘Summers on Cloud 9 ‘ is in order to develop the Nirvana vibe and a synergy for future holistic therapy.
Basically it is vital to find something to do that brings an air of :
And so the story has developed. Over months on months of self considerations regarding the monetary situation and expensive outlay, time commitment, self skills base, possibility of need to involve others, the planning involved, tenacity to commit wholeheartedly, self confidence and the strength to overcome obstacles…..it has involved much self analysis. And at an older age? Whether the strength to get there is still inherent.
Next step? Out there on Monday to some well chosen local spot and get the thinking cap on. Initially? The simplicity of an acoustic guitar, the iPad, the decent MV88 Shure microphone for the iPad and a mind full of wishful thinking.
Here below? Experimental uploads onto YouTube have reached 10 video songs now. Nothing out there in the open air and in the VeeDub Bus as yet. But the intentions at present is simply to get a feel of how this YouTube system works. Already, I find no way of finding how to insert a ‘Subscribe’ button. Such a technophobe. But, it will get there.
10 VIDEOS SO FAR…… link below:
https://youtube.com/@graysummers5999?si=Re8A_0XqcQsgPbHX
ALSO…..YOUTUBE VIDEO LINK OF ‘MOVING TO….’ BELOW.
Gray Summers 