Now…that I got that disclaimer out of the way, what follows is the story of a person who has stubbornly and/or stupidly continued to follow a dream, to persevere despite so many obstacles thrown in my way. A highway to something that was always just beyond my reach, a road paved with failures with a few stops of small luck and little victories along the way.
Website bios are notoriously boring and painfully similar, and mostly go completely unread. So with that knowledge I will speak from the heart and let the freedom of knowing no one is reading this guide me to talk of what was and what is still real and surreal to me
I have pretty much bumbled, fumbled and stumbled my way through life which I suppose is why I identify more with Forrest Gump than any other movie character as much as I wanted to be The Six Million Dollar Man, Steve Austin.
I am using this bloggy format as it works the best with my scattered thoughts and random memories and I won’t need to assemble an exact order and create an actual piece of literature but instead offer the ramblings of someone who has had no clue about so many things.
Simply no clue…..though there were times in my life that having no clue has in fact benefitted me…
There are no home movies or photos of me performing or playing music, no moments where someone can say, “oh that is when we saw this talent being formed”. Not musically anyway….I was always the joker, teasing and disruptive in a playful way. Despite a troubled home life, my grandmother would refer to me as ‘the laughing boy’. All the real natural talent was with my relatives, something I could never aspire to have. Having such a large extended family on my mother’s side of 9 siblings it is almost quite ironic, that the one with no natural gift who was skipped over, would be the one who would doggedly chase it forever.