04.21.06

The Universe provides

Posted in Uncategorized, babble, music news at 11:38 pm by Deb

It’s been a few days since I’ve written anything because, well, life just keeps happening doesn’t it? In these past few days we’ve celebrated two birthdays and a birth day. Welcome to the world to the newest member of our very extended family. We’ve also had a friend’s house burn down. Yes, they lost everything. And…I’ve been dealing with a pretty sick child. My little grandsweetie is not so sweet when she’s sick. She goes between wanting to be physically attached to me - as close as possible at every moment - to pushing me away and screaming at me to leave her alone. Thank goodness she’s recovered, or seems to be anyway. So, what does all of this have to do with the Universe providing? My previous post was about our recording capabilities that were just out of reach and extremely frustrating. I was going to spend these couple of days figuring it all out - or at least trying to figure it out. Obviously, I haven’t had a moment to spare. The last time I had tried working on it, I lost all sound out of the computer and all signal from the recorder into the computer and couldn’t figure out why. When I woke up the next morning, everything worked again. No, I had not restarted. I was much too frustrated and was going to try that in the morning rather than throwing the whole set-up out the window if it didn’t work. I sat down to start my figuring, when I suddenly remembered an appointment I was dreadfully late for and ran out the door. After the appointment, I met Dick for lunch at the food coop and was telling about the whole computer saga when someone came up to us and asked what was going on, explaining that we were talking about his favorite subject. It turns out he was an operations manager at a local radio station and runs a recording studio at home. He has offered to come over and show me how to set it all up. He was familiar with my hardware and software and also a very nice guy. Knowing that I would have his help made it possible for me to just relax and do the caretaking I needed to do without any resentment.

The night our friend’s house burned down, Dick and I had been talking about possessions and our attachment to them. He asked me what I would do if I suddenly lost everything, though he included the people in my life as well. Would I try to replace them, start new relationships, buy new things? Would I see it as an opportunity and do the things I’ve put off for whatever reasons? It made me think about what is really important and how my attachments run my life. Interestingly, my friend told me she sees this as a bizarre chance to start over. She’s lost all traces of memorabilia in addition to her musical instruments, recorded music, clothes, everything. It’s hard to fathom. Yet, at least for now, she is looking at it as an opportunity. An interesting thing to ponder. Most of us have been posed the question, if you had 30 seconds in a burning building, what one thing would you grab? My question to you is, what would you replace, if anything? If the people in your life were also gone and you had no attachments, how would you change your life?

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