real time

Live recording is a wonderful thing.
And filming it at the same time is even better.
On Sunday we took a stack of camera's into studio Atlantis, miked up all the gear and played.

A zealous dance to capture a flawless performance. It became pretty obvious early on that flawless performance was in no way similar to faultless. Our experience got me thinking....

Seems art is nothing without risk.

It takes courage to step beyond the edge of reason. Beyond the safety, the security, the known.
And it takes faith to give up what is, for what could be. But its the energy that is summoned to support or create that courage and faith that is communicated so clearly between the notes, between the brush strokes.

That energy is what moves, inspires, captivates us. That energy is what we connect with and stays with us long after the moment. Not the perfection of the performance. But the powerful vibration that sings "they were willing". A vibration that rings in unison with a note deep within us, no matter how faint, and calls us like the horizon does on dusk. It makes sense to a part of us. To keep searching.

Whether we dined with the dangerous will be obvious. But what has opened up, like all great adventures, is another map to another place like none we've ever seen....

we leave tonight...

mike

day one

Today is my birthday and it got me thinking.

It’s pretty clear we’re rapidly approaching a fork in the road as a planet.
At some point each and every one of us will have to make a choice (or more accurately, a series of ongoing choices) that will impact which road, we as a global community, will take.

There is no morality outside of the human condition, and as far as the universe is concerned, the path we take will be the path we take. But I think it’s important we make these choice’s as the fullest expression of who we are.

The ocean is under no illusion of who she is, nor is a ‘63’ fender strat.
I am merely a declaration, a commitment and an action.
Said more succinctly, I am my relationship to my word.

Now is the time to stand firmly in who we say we are, share ourselves fully and be open to receive everything else that is doing the same.

In the words of Oren Lyons, faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan of the Onandaga Iroquois, when speaking of his tribal council tradition: "We just keep talking until there's nothing left but the obvious truth."

Now is the time to open a conversation, and so I begin......

mike