By this time of day, I am so tired (3:59PM), and I really don't know why.
Okay, it could be from the fact that I have been taking really early morning shifts. Today's was 4AM (and so was Wednesday's) which, funnily was another day I was pretty tired, haha.
But, it has been such a good day!
I was beaming earlier. I'll tell you why....
I made a friend here in Arizona. A man by the name of Brent Jorgensen. I had no idea he was alive, or even that I had profound respect for him. But, one day, here in La Rama de Guerrero Park, I was playing Prelude music on the Organ, with the only Organ book I have ever bought in my life. I was on the Organ, because it is my calling...or at least, I have been chosen to fill it for the foreseeable future.
Unbeknownst to me, a man walks up behind me; I look back, and he, smiling, says, You are doing a good job. A nod of acknowledgement from me (and maybe a silent thank you). And then he casually mentions that the book I am playing from is one he wrote. I almost dropped in my seat right there and then. I know a composer. I know a composer!!!!! This couldn't have happened at a most crucial time in my life.
Since then, we have gone from being mere acquaintances to having a relationship of a mentor and a student, but mostly he has become my good friend.
Today, was sooooooo great. I had planned to go see him, as we do every once in a while, and we just talked.
A few weeks ago he had sent me a rough draft of a song he wants to include in one of his newest ideas for a book: A collection of Hymns (melodies) to be played to a piano accompaniment for ALL types of instruments. He is calling it "HYMNALONGS." I love it.
He asked me to come up with ways he can improve the guitar tab portion of a melody. And I told him all my ideas today, after sitting down with him. He even took some of the things I suggested, and in a LIVE phone conversation with his publisher, he told them the ideas I had (which were to not include a chord diagram chart in the easy piano book, but to include only chord names).
Then as I was to leave him, he gave me a Gift. Before he had left on a week long trip, he asked me if I had any requests of his works, and as he was in Utah visiting the Publisher, he got all that I requested, and a little more. I was so happy!
I am so excited!
I am in my element!
This is what I was meant to do.
It is what makes me really happy. Really happy.
Onward and upwards!
