Even though I'm so happy that the album for Manifest Frequency Music is finally able to be released, I'm also a bit stressed and overcome by so much - like many of my friends are. Since I found myself so weighed down by everything this past week, I decided to change focus... Just for a minute. Maybe less or maybe more.. But I'm focusing on one thing that comes to mind in this moment for which I'm grateful. Here is what came to mind for me as I type using all of my fingers and after I was just playing around with a new song on my acoustic guitar. I am very grateful that the surgeon was very wrong when he said I'd never play guitar again, despite all his considerable efforts to piece back together 3 fingers after numerous spiral fractures had things bent at angles no person should have to look down and see on their own body. Only my ring finger still has a bend toward the middle finger. But I figured out how to adjust for certain chords that need that finger to go a different direction than it currently aims. I'm grateful I could even teach guitar pretty successfully for a time after that "career ender". I'm grateful I was too damn stubborn to have another career derailed
