A talented songwriting friend, who has been having trouble writing, asked me why he should bother writing another song. "Who cares?" he asked.
I knew what he meant. Any song we write today will become part of an infinitely large collection of songs (poems, paintings...) that human beings have created since the beginning of time. In a way, any song (no matter how "good") is insignificant.
What isn't insignificant, though, are the insights that arise when we write a meaningful song...and the way we grow when we engage in the creative process.
When we make meaningful connections in music and words...when we share a song that moves another person...we affirm the recreating Whole that is sacred and holy.
Sure, it takes effort. (My friend said, "But it's so hard!") But the rewards are immense.
Tonight a no-longer-blocked songwriter called me, ecstatic over the new recording she had just made, and the new possibilities that are emerging--all because she began to write from her soul.
That's why we do this.
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