This week is the performance debut of the WAlbum music. If things were going as planed, I would have had all 10 songs written, recorded, and published online by now. As it currently looks, I have 6 tunes ready to go.

For a while I was feeling pretty bad about not reaching my goal of 10 tunes. I even thought about digging up some old tunes just so that I wouldn’t feel embarrassed for coming up short. Instead, I’ve had to come to terms with my own procrastination and poor planing. I’ve also recognizied that I set misaligned priorities for this project. My big goal was to write some music and stir up my creative juices. But instead of thinking of that, I was focusing on the specifics of the project rather than sum of it’s parts. Thinking and worrying about the quantity of tunes wasn’t connecting me to my vision for this project, it was just causing me more and more anxiety. As I prepare for a concert this week, I’m looking at the tunes I have and I’m proud of them. I’ve very excited to perform them, and pleased to have had the opportunity to write them. What more could I ask for?

And so here it is: this Thursday, the 18th of January at 7:30 at Bakalar Hall in Brookline Music School (25 Kennard Rd. Brookline, MA), new music will be performed. Valerie will be helping out on 3 tunes. We had our first rehearsal yesterday and I was very pleased with her contributions. We haven’t worked on a project like this in a couple years or so. It’s going to be great to play together.

Hope to see you there.