Music In My Life

        My last Blog I talked a little about keeping music in my life. Well as long as I can remember it has always been there. Growing up I would wake up with country music coming from the radio as my mother would be getting my father's breakfast together. My dad would be into blue grass music and then I had my sister's music which was soft rock or pop. One of my fondest memories was a little am radio that looked like a stereo system I remember tuning it in and listening to it until the battery ( 9 volt) died. Music to me has unlimited power to motivate a person. With the right song you can walk forever, love harder, feel stronger. I can live on music :-) I don't need to do anything else but listen and the world just fades away into wishes and dreams so real one might not want to leave it. I know I cannot stay there forever, but it sure does help my electric bill on those days I do that lol. No TV just a mp3 player.

     While in school we always had music in art class. It helped pass the time away no matter what we were doing. I took some vocational classes in middle school and remember having music being played while in those classes as well. Music one of the Muses :-) it is used in so many things , movies, commercials, even when we pass on we pick what we want played at our funerals. As I was growing up I went to church and of course music was there. at one point I lead the congregation in song. Not only there but at home we sang as well. and in my family if you didn't sing you played some sort of instrument, mainly the guitar. Mostly my Uncle and cousins played and we sang. When I was around 15 my dad showed me the key of D on the guitar and I have basically stayed with that lol. I play a little and hope to play more as time goes by. I might make that a resolution for next year lol.

    After I graduated from school I kept my love for music with me. I grew up when records were big and yes even 8 tracks ! I used to do all kinds of work from giving out samples of new cherry coke when it first came out to working at the Berkshire museum. But my favorite job was in radio. I used ot work for WBRK in Pittsfield Ma. I was only running the Larry King show and monitoring the FM (WRCZ) side, but it was fun and I got to work on my skills. After a while I got a chance to have my own show on WTBR a radio station in the local high school ( Taconic High). It was great I remember doing a morning show with a guy named Mike. We had a good time and I thought a good show.

  So how is music still in my life? Well beside the guitar and my mp3 player I still have a radio show thru my own station. Decades Radio, right now it is off the air but as I write this I am inspired to bring it back ! So who knows you might here me out there again soon talking about music or the latest events! But no matter what I love the passion music can bring into a person's life and the dreams it can create. Plus the memories it helps store in your brain, you know the ones which hit you all of the sudden when you hear that song you have not heard in ages :-) so turn on your radio and relax and enjoy :-)

About My Life

I guess I should introduce myself . Well I have found out this is the best way I can think of describing who I am :

I am a Husband, a Father, a Grandfather, a brother, a Uncle, and a friend. I am Loved, disliked, understood, and misunderstood, and I am sure hated by some. I live my life by two main values. 1: do unto others as you would have them to do you. example you want a kiss? kiss me , you want a hug? hug me, you want a laugh, make me laugh :-) or at least try to tickle me lol. But if you hit me , you will be hit, you hurt me , the same goes for you all is fair ! 2: If it feels good and no one gets hurt then do it. Too many times we have thought of something and not gone thru with it because we were afraid. Life is so too short and as long as what you do does not hurt anyone, or the person you are with wants to as well ( never against any one's wishes ) then do it ! even if it is just one time smiles and nice thoughts of the past get you thru life way better than regrets and guilt. :-) So yeah that is me in a nutshell . and yes I am a nut shell too but my past should not be able to make others feel bad , lets just say I am picking up the pieces as long as I have love.

  It took me a while to come up with that and yes it can be seen in other places as my about me :-) I want to say tho I think about my life more than most I am sure. A lot of people go thru life just living it. Me I think more than live lately and have to admit would like to change that, but how does one? I mean at times it is easier said than done. At times I have too many irons in the fire, then at times I choose none all out of a lack of support. Yes I feel a key factor in life is support. the support to keep one going. To me without it one just goes thru the motions of living and does not obtain anything worth enjoyment. I know it must sound strange to some, but I guess my past has cause me to need things others can live without ( that is another story ) .

  So what do I look forward to ? Well I guess right now I look forward to happiness and peace. Peace of mind that life is worth living and that I can do it without the support that I keep looking for. Maybe that should be my goal ? I do know this Music which has been part of my life will always be there :-) in some form or another I want that to stay :-) ( yes I like to smile a lot lol ) Ok I hope this is a good place to start a blog? I hope for better ones as the days go by ! I will also start to place my story I have been writing for years here too lol .