So, at the end of January I had a dream calling on me to exert my ego, have purpose and take action. Which I did!
I had just mastered the skills of composing a score and mixing my voice with artificial musical instruments and my whistle. (Well, acquired sufficient skill to produce some kind of product). So, during February I wrote scores for nine James Joyce airs (that I had been making up down the years), and a few of my own songs, and launched them onto the digital services (YouTube, Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music, Amazon, etc.)
This took hours of hard purposeful labour and probably expresses to some degree who I am. At any rate this is my work and my creation.
This February proved a good month to do it. The days were bitter cold. Down the country they had lashings of floods, (though in Glasnevin we don't see that much of the actual rain) and it was not tempting to be out and about. Might as well be sitting at the computer solving all those little quirky problems that trying to accomplish anything places in your path, and singing.
I decided to have my own recording label, Glossneen. Well, the leading labels were hardly looking out for me.
All in all, I feel more lively and purposeful as a result. I thank my dream for calling attention to my ego deficit.
