There is a vitality, a life-force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost. ~ Martha Graham
I GOT KIN
Plant
So that your own heart
Will grow.
Love
So God will think,
"Ahhhhh,
I got kin in that body!
I should start inviting that soul over
For coffee and
Rolls."
Sing
Because this is a food
Our starving world
Needs.
Laugh
Because that is the purest
Sound.
~Hafiz, The Gift
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. ~ Howard Thurman
I started teaching myself in college with a guitar Ananda W left in my room while she was away for a month. She also left her book of the easy version of Beatles songs. I figured out chords from that. I was SO eager, I would rush back to my dorm room after a quick lunch to squeeze in a few more minutes of practice.
I started writing songs in a music class my last year of college. Our assignment was to create a melody every day! I couldn't play piano, and all I knew on the guitar was chords, so the melodies had to be sung. I started with bits of poems I'd already written that seemed to lend themselves nicely to music. The assignment only required a few bars, but once I got going with a verse or a chorus, it usually spilled out easily into a full song. A lot of my first stuff was "poor me, he doesn't love me" type of things, cuz that's the space I was in at the time. I don't write quite so often at the moment, and I'd like to get better at both guitar and music theory so I can expand my stuff, but this will require motivation and dedication on my part, since I graduated in 2001 and don't have a teacher to nudge me along.
Lately I've been having fun hosting a radio show on my town's little low-power grassroots community station - KRUU-LP 100.1 FM. My show is called Lyrical Venus and the focus is on female singer-songwriters. We only broadcast within a 15 mile radius, but you can listen anywhere in the world online at www.kruufm.com Tune in Tuesday mornings at 9am Central!
I also like to blog! Subscribe to my MySpace blog above for updates on local acts or fun music links. If you like female singer-songwriters, check out my other blog - lyricalvenus.com
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