Category: Things I Want to Remember

in·er·tianoun: inertia 1. a tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged.“the problem runs deeper than bureaucratic inertia” Similar:inactivity / inaction / inactiveness / inertness / dormancy / passivity / apathy / accidie / malaise / stagnation / dullness / enervation / sluggishness / lethargy / languor / languidness / listlessness / torpor / torpidity / idleness / indolence /… Read more →

“No one needs the things that I do. No one needs my music. No one needs or wants my skills and my talents. No one will pay me for what I have to offer the world.” — My brain sometimes As of 2020 there were approximately 7.753 billion people planet earth. That’s a lot of people. It takes 1000 true… Read more →

I want my life to be amazing. I want to wake up every day and jump out of bed with enthusiasm. I want to be so excited about my life that I can’t wait to get my day started. I want all of those things, but as I type these words I don’t currently have a grand plan for my… Read more →

I’m feeling it right this moment. I feel like giving up. I feel like ‘what’s the point?’. I feel lost. I feel like I have no direction. It’s a feeling of hopelessness. I feel these things even though I’ve had two pretty good sessions of practicing and composition today so far. Maybe I feel it because I’ve had these good… Read more →

Here’s what I did today: I got out of bed. I took a (cold) shower. I drank a kale cacao smoothie. I practiced trombone. I made and ate my lunch. I practiced trombone some more. I took out the trash. I gathered my dirty clothes and got them ready to take to the laundry. I took my clothes to the… Read more →

“Strive to be prolific. It’s the one aspect of your career as an artist that is completely within your control.” — TAS You can’t control whether or not your work is accepted or liked by the public. The only thing that you can control is the amount of work that you put into the world. It’s a numbers game. The… Read more →

I failed last night. I stayed up later than I should have. That means I started my day later than I should have. I don’t have a good excuse. I wasn’t doing anything to further my career or edify humanity. I know better. I’ve failed this same way hundreds and hundreds of times before. Here’s the thing. My failure last… Read more →

It’s not worth it. That thing that you’re considering doing instead of going to bed and getting a good nights sleep? It’s not worth it. You know what ‘it’ is. There’s no need to spell it out. It’s different for everyone, but everyone has something they do that they know they shouldn’t. It’s not worth the pain that you’ll feel… Read more →

Your life sucks right now. So what? Things are hard for you right now. So what? The government is broken and our so called leaders have failed us completely. Madness on the left and on the right. Afghanistan is a complete shit-show. There’s a global pandemic without an end in sight. The world is getting hotter and hotter, and parts… Read more →

I’m done with telling people what I’m going to do. I’m done with complaining to my friends that I haven’t accomplished the things that I wanted to do. I’m done with the lousy feeling inside that comes from knowing that I haven’t done the things that I’ve said I was going to do. I’m tired of hearing myself talk. Talk,… Read more →