Sunny Manitoba is supposed to reach 35 Celsius today...then 37 for the next three days. We are certainly a province of extremes, that's for sure! The past several weeks have found me too, too busy with work to find time to journal here, but the positive side of that is that the busyness has allowed us to install central air, and what a good year to do it! It makes all the extra hours not only more tolerable, but certainly more worthwhile....
Music has once again been slid back onto the back burner on me. It seems to be the cycles of my life. My subconscious must be struggling to remind me of the joy I'm setting aside right now, because the past several weeks have given me the most amazing series of dreams to enjoy! Gotta tell you...I love my dream world!
I think it started with Jann Arden and I putting on this really great concert together at the Rossendale Country Store....we were amazing! A couple of nights later Randy Bachman was giving me a personal tour of this amazing, ocean side house he'd just finished renovating on Salt Spring Island and I was feeling so great knowing that we were going to be next door neighbors. Then came my tour of the UK with Paul McCartney, after he'd asked me to sing backup for him on his latest album. It was a pretty cool world of swanky parties and big lights. Two nights ago I had the chance to sit and talk with Martina McBride before she preformed at a fundraiser I was attending, and we were having this great discussion about writing, and the power of lyrics. Then there was the evening I spent hanging out with Elvis, but I gotta tell you, that one left me a little disturbed, because if he and I were hanging out...one of us was in the wrong dimension! ....Yep, I love it when I go to sleep! I really do believe that our dreams are trying to tell us something....not likely that I'll be singing with Paul McCartney any time soon, but I think they do work at telling me that I need to be more actively involved in my music, because it's really calling to me these days. I just have to take the time to listen and heed the call. That's been a struggle with all of life's commitments, but that's all part of the journey.
We attended the wedding of a couple of dear friends last night, and were once again reminded of the power of love...to heal hearts, to revive dreams, to renew hope. Those reminders are so great to have, because sometimes I think we truly do forget what's most important in the hustle and bustle of it all. IT was great to be invited to witness and participate the birth of a new family, and see the old hurts washed away. Congratulations Heather and Mark, and thank you for sharing your day.
Time to run again. It's one of those days where the opportunities are endless, the commitments are minimal, and the world is our oyster. It's time to go see what it all has to offer!
Later,
Lynda
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