Momentum: Why Such a Frisky and Fickle Creature?

Last time I wrote, I was writing on my laptop while under a beautiful shade tree at a children's home in Oaxaca, Mexico. Today, I am typing as I sit at my desk, staring at my to-do pile, in Southport, CT. Quite the difference!

Maybe it's because I'm just a regular person, or maybe it's because I have undiagnosed ADD, but I have a hard time switching from trips to Mexico (where I reside with 80 screaming kids, and lead groups of teenagers) back to living in a tiny house with one other person and spending the majority of my day working in my office and/or singing to myself. It's a strange little life I lead. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't change a thing (as I've mentioned a time or two before...) I just need to snap out of it or something.

I don't do well taking off for Mexico for a week or two or six, where I only play guitar for a few minutes a day at most (no piano there...), and am only able to maintain the very bare minimum of booking and promoting upcoming shows. Contrast that with returning from Mexico exhausted and sometimes cranky, and very behind in my promo/booking of upcoming shows and therefore needing to spend a lot of time thinking all about me all of the time. No distractions, no emergencies, no homes to build, just me telling other people about why they should listen to me. Really weird.

Anyway...

Tonight I'm playing at the Steam Vent Coffee House hosted by the Winsted Congregational Church. Tonight is a coffee house evening that they host once a month as a part of their fund-raising efforts to bring a group of volunteers down to Oaxaca, Mexico. A nice "full-circle" project, because I'll see all of these people tomorrow (when we're all shiny and clean) and then I'll see them again in Mexico this August! (When we're significantly less shiny and definitely not clean.)

So, I guess this blog is a bit of a rant - except for that last paragraph. Not towards anyone, just to myself. I don't know why it's so hard to get back into the swing of things after each trip, but I'm doing my best! One of these days, I'll definitely figure it out.

Have a great weekend!