How Far We’ve Come!
Welcome back to the Weekly Songcast! It feels a little like it did back when it started from scratch. I was reminiscing about that the other day with a friend. When I decided to do the Weekly Songcast, it wasn’t called the Weekly Songcast. In fact it didn’t really have a name and the first few entries were done using iWeb on my Mac.
It seemed like a really easy and self-contained way of publishing a podcast at the time, but I soon went back to WordPress to enjoy the amazing flexibility it provides.
Anyway, back to Dec 30th 2007. I had decided to publish a new song every week and I promised myself that song number one would make it onto the website before New Year’s Day 2008. I got the site up and ready quickly enough, but the stumbling block was the first song. I had some chords (actually I had chords for loads of songs ready), but no words and I was due to visit my friend for New year on 30th; not coming back until after New Year’s Day.
The clock was ticking and I had to just get myself out of the way, so to speak. Song number one (Moment) ended up being published at about 18:30 (ish) hours on December 30th and I then raced to pack some stuff into my bag, ready for the 3 hour drive to my friend’s house in the really snazzy coupe hire car that I had been upgraded to for free (2007 was the year I got to drive nice, new cars for almost free due to being smashed into by a massive lorry in the summer).
I arrived at my friend’s house pretty late, but satisfied that I had actually honoured my intention and made my deadline. The Weekly Songcast name came later, around February with the switch to WordPress, but it was well and truly Alive (song #2). It was to be a defining moment in my history and helped me grow as a songwriter, musician and generally as a person.
It seems like a world away now as the title of the song in this post, although the ‘World Away’ referred to in this song is more about any undesirable feeling or situation being a world away once you get over them and progress with life. It’s a word of encouragement and support I suppose. There have been some moments like that for me in my life that now seem like a world away, which is another sign for me of the progress I have made.
All in all I am grateful for the Weekly Songcast. I love it and I should never have stopped it in August 2009. Still the reason I did stop it (to focus on something that wasn’t in my heart) provided me with some great lessons about myself and an increase in self awareness. It caused me to wake up some more to how I fit into this crazy game called life, which I love more and more as each day goes by.
The Weekly Songcast has helped form a significant chapter of my life. It has been with me as I put my plan to change my life situation into action, it inspired me to keep going and cheered me on as I moved to the other side of the world to live in a tropical paradise. It witnessed me marry the woman of my dreams and now it will get to share with me the joy of being there as my baby daughter Lilla grows up.
How long will the Weekly Songcast continue? WHo knows, but it is my intention that this is, again, just the beginning!
2009 was the quickest year of my life and I feel a little like I didn’t have time to get anything started, but as I look back at the year I can see that it was one of the biggest years of my life and contained the ultimate in joyous moments for me – Becoming a dad!
Thank you WSC and thank you life for keeping me in the game. I’m ready for more!
From Longing to Living:
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Welcome back. Like the voice. Perheps a rest does you good now and again. Not that you sounded like u needed it. Oh I’m putting my foot in it. I’ll just shut up
Yes, please shut up. You are just a cat after all.