I've been learning a few new songs a month and singing them at open mics. It was REALLY hard, at the beginning, to sit on stage by myself and try to entertain. Tonight I was looking for lyrics to the next song I want to learn, Let the Mystery Be, by Iris Dement, and came across the following sentence in an Anchorage Press (of all papers!) article from 2002. Robert Meyerowitz wrote, "Some music – and painting and drawing, and poetry and prose – can be simple, sincere and absolute." Whoa. That's what I'm aiming for.

If someone wrote an article like this about me someday, I'd die happy.

http://www.anchoragepress.com/archives/document1ee2.html