Photo A Day and Impacts

I was looking for my self-portrait blog and found this one. I'm really in a slump right now.  I want to keep my dreams alive and lord knows I've tried, but life keeps slinging mud at me.  People that say they love me sure don't act like it some times. Yesterday at the archery range I got so depressed that I didn't take a single photo.  Then I read this account about a man that took a daily Polaroid for 17 or 18 years until he died of cancer.  Now that's commitment. http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/26f8Ia/www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/15131 You can read the story for yourself.

Ukelele

My friend Robert just figured out how to post to Youtube. Here he is with his new ukelele.

That Moose Group

I've been sick for two weeks which has given me lots of times to think about my dreams, and how out of reach so many of them are. One of my goals was to read 100 books this year and here it is December and I've read about 20. I don't regret the books I read or having the goal, but I do regret that I didn't do better at it. There is a saying that man plans and God laughs. I believe it.

Musically I've been inspired by a duet my boyfriend shared with me on Youtube. I'll go find an example and post it here. I have a lot of instruments and would love to do something like this, but I don't know how to do the electronics. I don't know how to lay down sound tracks and harmonize with my own voice and so on. I can never remember the band's name, only that it has the word Moose in it.

CIrcular Breathing

Here is a breathing tutorial that makes a lot of sense.I'll try this next.
 

Make a Didgeridoo

I took my didgeridoos out in public last Sunday and the general consensus was that I'd made the mouthpieces too big. Drats. So today I melted the beeswax with my hair dryer and reshaped them. I'm letting them cool now. I still can't figure out the circular breathing to save my life so it's discouraging. Especially when I see a kid on youtube that must be all of 16 playing like he was born with a tube in his mouth. Let me see if I can find that for you.

Tone Deafness

I thought maybe the problem with my singing was that I was tone deaf. Not according to this: Hearing Test Results

You correctly identified 26 tunes (out of 26) on the Distorted Tunes Test. Congratulations! You have a fine sense of pitch.

Thank you for taking the Distorted Tunes Test. More information about the the NIDCD's research into tone deafness is available from Dr. Dennis T. Drayna's web page.
So what is my problem then?

Write a Song a Day

As a personal challenge, I've been writing a song every day. Today was day five. Then I put it on youtube or Flickr. I wish I could say I sound great but I don't. I guess all those years of being in choirs didn't really stick. But I still want to be a singer. But it's kind of messing with my head. We all want to put our best selves out there but what if we don't measure up to even our own expectations? So I keep trying to squirm away from writing a song a day, which is the very reason I should keep on making them. Conquering my fears is a big part of it. Some people fear skydiving. I fear singing in public.

If you want to hear the rest of my songs, just double click on the video and it will take you to my Youtube page.