Devour Music

hello lovely lovely humans, i hope everyone i doing alright this week, sending lots of love to you all. first lil reminder iiiii haveeee a show! aug2, in brooklyn at the sultan room (tix here: https://tr.ee/EbsTMgdCKx). would be so lovely to see you. im no natural at promoting things, i prefer to just offer the art up but it would be special to get to perform live for you all so i will keep mentioning thisss :) also wow i hit 100k subscribers, don't even know how to wrap my brain around that but truly thank you all for being the best community ever, so grateful for you all! when i write these long winded thoughts down here they're usually coming from a place of letting myself know that this is something i need to hear. by writing out thoughts and feelings, i've held a little bit more grace for myself this past year. brain game that many of you probably have done before, but doing the thing where you take the harsh criticisms and expectations you put on yourself and instead imagine saying that to someone you really care about..... it can be appaling. the way the voice in our head can treat us sometimes is cruel, taking a moment to remember that voice isn't you, you're just the one experiencing the chatter, andddd if it were completely up to you, you probably wouldn't say those things. as you are gentler to the people around you, i think you'd probably take the option of being gentler to yourself as well. so im taking a moment now with the anxious thoughts, internal criticisms, fears and unrealistic expectations and moving them to expecting that from a close friend of mine. immediately the thought that comes up is, if that were my friend, i wouldn't be holding any of those negative thoughts towards him, i'd actually be really really proud of him for everything he's accomplished this year. id see the journey, all the years of dedication to music and feel truly proud seeing so many of the seeds in his life starting to sprout. its actually my birthday in a little over a week. if i take a deep breath and think about where i was at last 365 days ago and walk through all the moment's i've experienced since then, i'm really grateful. reminding myself that to me, success is not about what i accomplish in life, it's about how i experience those accomplishments and everything else. hope you get some enjoyment out of this weeks meditation, had a lot of fun trying something new with the totally reverbed out guitar sounds. sending love to you all, truly i appreciate every one of you! lots and lots of love, coulou