Lonnie Ezell

Life’s been crazy. Mostly the band, family (with new Boy Scouts thrown in the mix) and new “job”. The new job is, in many ways, fantastic, but I’ve found myself doing little outside of coding PHP and HTML. There’s a joy in that, but not when that’s all that you do.

So it’s time to find the Breath again.

What is the Breath? If you’ve read my novel, Daughter of the Sun, you’ll know. For those that haven’t, it is the spark inside of you that allows you to create magic. It is something that I believe is inherent in everyone, but we have, so far, forgotten how to use it. It’s when we find the things that give us joy, and watch that joy blossom into something special. That’s the magic.

It feels like I’ve been floating along the ride of 0′s and 1′s and gradually losing grasp on the magic that is inside of me. If it wasn’t for the Sea Dogs, I might have already lost it.

Time to start again, and start again slow enough that I can build up the habits, the muscle memory, that will let me take this for the long haul.

Here’s the plan:

• One new song recorded every month. Many times this will be a new whistle tune that I’ve learned, but I am going to do it up right with guitar and percussion, as well. This will help me grow as an artist, develop skills and arranging/mixing skills. Most of those items will go up here for free. Every year, I plan on releasing a new CD of the best of the tunes.
• Start writing again. I haven’t set any specifics yet, but we got to start somewhere, right? I have two short stories that I want to finish up before getting back into Book Two (yes, I’m well aware it is way past due, and I apologize.)

Neither of these items form a new ‘job’ and both have plenty of breathing room in them to allow for real life and the job, but to still give me enough forward motion to find the life again. To feel alive, not just like I’m floating along, grasping onto a rotten log and hoping that it won’t break on me.