Despite the weekly reminders, it seems that nearly a year has past since my last post. Despite my own pet-peeve-ness toward posts that start off by saying "wow, it's been a while," here I am doing that very thing. It's only a brief mention, just so it doesn't seem like there are several missing posts since May of last year.
I'm tired. Pretty much all the time. Charlie is a bustling 14 month old and our life couldn't be better with him in the center of it all. But boy he's having a hard time sleeping lately. We're hoping that he'll eventually be able to stay in his own crib for most, if not all, of the night, but now is not that time. Any frustrations we have immediately go away when he looks at you and just grins that goofy grin of his.
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| Goofball, 2.0 |
Work is great. Like really, really great. I drive to San Antonio twice a week, but despite leaving at 4:15am most mornings and not getting home until 5-6pm, I enjoy it immensely. (My nifty Sleep Cycle app is a huge help, despite it maybe being a placebo.)
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| If only I actually didn't have to wake-up until 7:30am. |
On the days that I don't teach at the University of the Incarnate Word, I'm at
Austin Soundwaves, possibly the single most important musical thing I've done thus far in my short career. Beyond making even the smallest impact on these kids, they're just plain wonderful human beings. It's a privilege to work with them everyday and to make such music with them. The stories are never ending and not a single class goes by without something amazing me. Most recently, their performance at a recent concert in downtown Austin just blew me away. I've never heard a group of junior high kids with an average of 2 years playing experience sound the way they sounded with the musicality that they possessed.
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| An amazing group of kids. |
Also, I *think* I'm still a composer. So there's that. And a couple of other projects. Leaves me with exactly 3 hours of sleep or something a week. Or whatever. Who needs it? Weariness is just your body telling you to slow down because you're having too much fun. Right?
