prev # Friday, Dec. 26, 2003 11:29 a.m. # next

Back and forth, up and down

One way or another, something big is going to happen. I'm nervous.

On a more pleasant note, I recorded my first song yesterday - as in, the first written BY ME. I played it (haltingly, nervously - as I'd never played it for anyone before) for my dad first so he could learn the chords, and then he used his vastly superior guitar skills to accompany me as I sang. He really likes the song, which means so much to me. It's about Silver Gate, MT, where I spent the summer. Sort of. He's spent a lot of time up there on vacations over the years, and says he's been trying to write a song but it just hasn't come together. He said I incorporated the personal element that was missing in his writings. The song's really about the haunting yet somehow beautiful lonliness that happens in a place like that. It's actually sort of a love song. I think the chorus especially is very nice, and now that I have a REAL guitarist, it's a REAL song! It was so much fun to collaborate with him on something that came out of me...

So that made me feel good, and helps to balance the anxiety that I feel today.

Christmas was fun, maybe more on that later.

Off to check out some mountains.

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