The Music and Lyrics Which Inspires Me

 

The beauty of music. It sings to me and inspires my creative juices in a way that brings out the feelings I have stored deep within my soul. The words just flow first like a small brook, becoming a stronger stream, until finally, cresting forth like a powerful river over its banks.

 I had realized this many years ago but decided to live my life in a different direction. Then, in my early sixties after I recovered from Stage 3 Colon Cancer, my younger brother Tim suggested that I restart that engine. So, I began my blogsite, which you are reading this on today. And this is the 660^th commentary on my blogsite. (I also started to build a playlist which I play as I write. Of course, that took time, too.) I didn’t think I would find a niche that would be of any long-term interest to a particular audience.

 And I was right. I went down a meandering path of thought: politics, sports, religion, whatever came to mind to me on a given day. And, finally, I came to the realization that I was the audience I was writing these commentaries to. The day’s commentary was of interest to ME, and that if someone else read them, I would be pleased because it seemed that at least someone else thought my comments and views were of at least a mild interest to them.

 Anyway, my brother and I started a social media consulting business in 2015 where he and another person would solicit our clients, my nephew Mike would develop the creative art, and I would finalize the copywrite to substantiate the client as a thought leader in his or her industry, and posted it across the client’s and our social media pages.

 And it was fun. A lot of fun. But then Tim wanted to retire. It was becoming burdensome for him to expend the energies needed to work at a high-paced, pressure-cooker level each day. So. he finally retired.

 I knew I was “over-qualified” (code words for ‘too old’), having heard those words after I closed my mortgage business when I was in my mid-fifties. So, I filled my days from 2018 to 2020 driving for LYFT. And I enjoyed it. After all, I was meeting people, something I was accustomed to, having been a banker, bartender, cabdriver and even a sometime musician in bands in the 60s, and later in the 70s with, you guessed it, my brother Tim.

 I had stopped driving due to the unknowns of Covid, especially for someone like me who fairly recently had Cancer.  Tim passed, right at the start of Covid and I had to find an outlet. So, I wrote several books, playing and adding to my playlist each day. The music helped me deal with the loss of my brother. And it inspired me to write.

 660 blogs, nine books, and a musical play later, I am still inspired to write. My characters sing words to songs to other characters across the pages of each book in my library. For me. You have witnessed this if you have read my books. And if you bought my books on Amazon, or read my commentaries, I thank you.

 I am in the middle of my latest book, which should be published by the Fall, called the Positivity of Cancer. It is a story where our five protagonists deal with their cancers, some more than once. And of course, the music I play while writing inspires the creative juices to tell their stories.

 Stay tuned.