Shakin', Rattlin' and Rolling

"We're all going to be home now, you know." my son told his newly job free father.  I took it as kind of a warning.  He and I had already found our daily rhythm.  He, home again after gigging in New Orleans for two months.  There was no need to keep an apartment, we told him.  Come home.  Me, home again after closing a business of six years.

"Mom and I barely see each other".  This was the hint and warning to his father.  Well, maybe not so much a warning to him as much a warning to all of us that our tiny house was now harboring four full time creative people.  One son finishing high school.  Another son finishing a second album.  One father, home after being cast off in a private equity capitalist fiasco.  And me, in probably the biggest transition ever.  All together in one small space.  I can feel the foundation creaking from the load.

It's funny that we all find ourselves in this huge transition, each working to discover the next move along the journey we voraciously carve out for ourselves.  There is a lot of inner contemplative work going on.   Big creative ideas brewing in one small house.  Man, it's getting warm in here.

It's not a bad thing.  Creativity spawns more creativity.  But quiet time in a house full of musicians is a scarce commodity.  I've said it before.  Times, they are a changing.  You can feel it.  I saw a sign on the highway the other day.  Do one thing each day that scares you.  Ha!  Life is a fright fest every hour in this house!!!

It's not fear I feel, but anticipation.  That edgy angst that gives you the jitters because something is about to move but hasnt' yet.  Give it a few minutes....  Anticipate the best.  The fear is the unknown.  The unknown is making way for the new.  The new brings exhilaration that is just beyond the jitters.  Shake it all loose.  Let the old and worn out fall away so we can survey the vista of opportunity that stands before us.

My house is dancing right now; shaking, rattling and rolling to the sounds of new albums, new paths being excavated, new ideas, new perspectives.  It's going to be hard to contain it one it blows!  Our task is to clear the way for our own greatness to emerge.  Onward and upward!