I'm a defunct music major. Grabbed the minor, and have only looked back once or twice.
Today...today, it all got the best of me.
Job.
Family.
Politics.
Simply it's all stress.
I woke from a dream last month, realizing that my current path is not the one I'm called to do. Regardless what people say, it's about vocation and not occupation.
Tonight my gracious wife has given me reign on her office...her computer...and our CD collection.
Here I sit, music cranked up (The Raiders March by John Williams, conducting the Boston Pops).
When I close my eyes and raise my hands, and start conducting the scraps of paper, HP printer, and the USB plugs way in the back...I'm connecting back to myself, and the pleasure that is EXISTING.
Next up is Patrick Stewart performing Peter and the Wolf...
So, what do you do, my late-night friends on the Eastern Seaboard, and my 2nd-glass of wine westerners, when it all gets the best of you for a bit? How do you escape and relax? where is your solitude?