“Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves. They never get around to being the particular poet or the particular monk they are intended to be by God…
They waste their years in vain efforts to be some other poet, some other saint…
They wear out their minds and bodies in a hopeless endeavor to have somebody else’s experiences or write somebody else’s poems or possess somebody else’s spirituality.
Thomas Merton, “Integrity,” New Seeds of Contemplation, 1961.


We are musicians, writers and artists for a great multitude of reasons. What ties us together is the very struggle of expressing ourselves as an individual person or group. We work to understand our sound, the music we enjoy creating and feel good about expressing.

Nevertheless there are times where that creative spark has dimmed. We seek an outside source for that energy; a muse, a pilgrimage to a place of inspiration or we turn inward and ironically seek light from the darkness within. This is where things can get ugly. Depression, lack of self confidence, low self esteem, the mind wanders more and more and you start to physically disconnect with the world around you. You know you are in the darkness.


I know, I lived in this darkness for a couple years. I internally shut down, no inspiration and no desire to continue… until one day I had enough! I was fed up with feeling sorry for myself, I was fed up with complaining and not doing anything about it. I activated myself. Now it’s time to make your move! Activate before you get trapped!