Six weeks and three days after the first post I have here my husband was taken by ambulance to the hospital. He still is not home yet. It’s been four months. To say the last several months have been difficult would be a major understatement. Life has been one big roller coaster ride. One that includes cork screw turns and full 360s. And a lot of ups and downs. I am waiting for the day when we can just be more like a leisurely ride on a pontoon at the lake. We could use some of that.
On my show today I thanked my friend Apryl. Somehow our paths that had sadly separated several years ago came together once again. I thanked her for encouraging me to do what I am now doing. I am recording a weekly radio show and having fun doing it. Yeah. I’m the host of a radio program. I am an accidental dj! Who would have thought? During a time when I did not know what to do with myself. A time when the anxiety I was feeling landed me in the e.r. a couple of times. A time when I felt like I was falling apart. She made me feel like I could do it. And I did.
During the weeks that I was visiting my husband after work every night, I was able to come home and immerse myself in music and eventually start the show. It was a much needed escape. A place to go where I didn’t feel the pain and the fear. Music is healing. The songwriters have a way of helping us transcend the negative space we may be in. And there have been so many independent artists that I have “discovered.” It is unreal – the number of independent artists that are out there! I haven’t experienced anything like it since I used to go down to the Sunset Strip and see all the bands playing in the clubs. But what I witnessed was just a fraction of what was really out there. Now, we experience it all on social media.
Since this whole radio show business has started, we have done 10 shows. One of them Apryl voiced for me because I was just not up to it one week. And as I write this, I am already working on show #11. Artists are actually submitting their music to me for the show. It’s pretty amazing. But most of all, I am having fun doing it. And my husband thinks it is pretty cool. It will be so nice when he is feeling even better, and home, he can help me with making playlists for the show.
As I write this blog, I have emailed back and forth with an independent artist in England. The band is called Silenced Echoes. Their music is reminiscent of the unsigned bands I used to see in Hollywood. You can tell that they truly love what they are doing. I really enjoy listening to the music of these musicians who are trying to make it in the crazy music industry. Being able to give them an opportunity for their art to be “displayed” so-to-speak, brings me joy. There is no way I can play everyone’s music, but just to offer some kind of opportunity for them to be heard is what I enjoy about it.
Right now I am enjoying my time doing the show and assisting with the radio station that hosts the show. I hope to continue doing the show for as long as possible and maybe even more with the station in the future. The music certainly isn’t going away. There is no shortage of talent to be shared with the world! Where will this eventually lead? I just don’t know yet.
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