This is a blog which is part two of the Camelot series. I go back to a period of time in my life when I suddenly headed in a different direction. This blog is about the musical side of the program.
I have always been a closet musician. When I was19, I got a guitar and proceeded to hide in my bedroom playing guitar. My head was filled with melodies and lyrics, but who was I to think anyone would want to hear them?
Then about the time I had my church Camelot birth, I started singing in the church choir. One choir rehearsal night I talked to another singer and told him I played guitar - he did too. He told me to bring my guitar the following week. When we sat down we went into the kitchen behind the choir room and he and I started playing "The Boxer." A third friend came in and started singing with us. The choir director wandered in and listened to us. He then asked how long we had been playing together? We told him it was the first time and he looked with amazement and said that we had a sound we needed to do more with. Thus our trio was started. It is now some twenty-five years later. We have gone through three or four iterations of the first band and started another Sunday morning group as well.
This was not so much a huge change in my life; it was more coming home. Since 2000, we've played over 300 gigs and had some wonderful memories. We played one gig on a Rocklin property where the house was situated on top of a hill. The temperature outdoors was in the 30's and the only people outdoors listening to us sat on a couch with blankets. Everyone else went inside and watched us through the windows. We had another gig where we were playing for the wrong audience. After the first song was played, people started asking if we knew any Metallica or Iron Maiden. We also played in 100 degree heat at the California State Fair. We played political events, and fundraisers for non-profits. We continually learned new music and learned new songs differently.
Our other group consisted of four voices singing harmony on Sundays in churches all over Northern California.
I discovered there are things we do that bring us home. We can't stay away. It amazed me when I first experienced my health challenge. I lost all energy and was filled with fatigue. Yet I could play songs from our play list, and it was as if I had plugged directly into the energy of the universe. Rachel said once I started singing it was as if I had no health challenges. It is that part of us that when we are in direct harmony with our soul vision, there is no effort. It is easy and simple.
Find your home within and spend time in it. It will fill your soul with manna from heaven.
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