The academic schedule is ingrained almost instantly into the consciousness of children. There is the time when school and the associated work is all that there is and then the blessed summers. Days that stretch forever and only the responsibilities created by parents. Sure, there are things like camp and for some there is the summer job, but for the most part there is the freedom from being compelled to produce anything of worth. Perhaps this is shifting a little with the more and more common two income household and the proliferation of daycare. Maybe it’s the year-round school that we dreaded back when I was in grade school. But it’s too late for me. Summer is here and I have run out of steam.
My wife tries to put it into perspective for me. She has noticed my pattern of simply coming to the end of my idea rope with the first of the seemingly endless 90F+ days. I have been told that the best thing for me to do is read. Do some research. Putter around with some of the less intense ideas that I have had floating around since who knows when. She is right. But I hate it.
At the end of the day, I desperately want to be productive. I want to put out a piece of music every week. But with three months of upper 90s and 100+ temperatures, the well has run dry. Or pretty close to it. The wise thing to do at this point is to get back down to brass tacks with some of my reasearch items since the garage is a place where I can spend no time until September. I still have some ideas for pieces that I can work on without microphones that will pick up every turn of the ceiling fan overhead. But the motivation has dropped significantly.
What does all of this mean? It means that a change of course is indicated. One that should have been forseen. With that said, I will continue as indicated by circumstances.
I will still try to post every week. I doubt that I will have musical items to include in my postings, but I won’t say that it’s going to stop. The time for culling the songs produced this year is here. As such, there will be edits and plans for going back into the studio when the time comes.
Flexibility is the new name of the game.
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