This time I'm reflecting on the fact that in one week marks a year since I pulled up stakes in Denver and returned to Minnesota. It was a move I had not expected to make..after all Denver's got the Rocky Mountains,medical marijuana and the Denver Broncos,and the weather is generally a lot warmer..
Life has certainly taken some crazy turns for me,and in particular since that crazy day in December of 2009 when I learned the words Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma would be a regular part of my vocabulary for the foreseeable future. Life has not been dull since my return,but I gotta say with each passing day,it becomes clearer to me that I made the right move for myself in returning.
Since returning,I have been blessed being able to resume my life as a writer and performer. While most of my energy has still been devoted to healing and getting resettled,I've had the opportunity on a couple of occasions to sit in with the Stevens Brothers Band,and last December collaborated with Dhanny Boldt and Serdar Guvenc with a spoken word/music experiment we call The Project.
It has been my experience as a writer that in some way the things that are written reflect what is going on in the writer's life at the moment... Recently pulled out some of the older writings,and couldn't help but to notice the anger and angst present in life at the time it was written.
Life now is not what it was then,and much has transpired in this past year. I've continued to survive cancer. In a few months I will be a grandfather. I am now connected to a wonderful woman to whom I hope to grow old with.
The Project both lyrically and musically reflect some of those changes. Old material is covered in different ways and then there's the new material.
For one to remain in the past,one risks becoming a relic..One must always move forward
Link to David Daniels with the Stevens Brothers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cBPGJcAS4A
