{"id":884,"date":"2013-10-05T11:49:17","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T18:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calirose.com\/blog\/?p=884"},"modified":"2013-10-05T11:49:17","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T18:49:17","slug":"attention-late-bloomers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/attention-late-bloomers\/","title":{"rendered":"ATTENTION LATE BLOOMERS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo by Craig Brandau<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When you love to do something, keep on doing it. If you can. No matter what\u00a0they<\/em>\u00a0say. Or don\u2019t say. I can\u2019t tell you how many body blows I\u2019ve taken over the years just doing what I do. Making music. Or how many times I\u2019ve heard my mother\u2019s\u00a0I-told-you-so-voice<\/em>\u00a0in my head scolding me \u201cyou should have stayed in nursing school\u201d when I got fired from a gig or didn\u2019t get the audition, or whatever. Somehow I kept going anyway and in the process put in my\u00a0first\u00a0<\/em>10,000 hours of practice. Singing. Playing an instrument. Telling a story, a joke, heckling a heckler.<\/p>\n

You see, when I first started out I was so scared to sing in front of people or talk or stand up without falling over, that I would throw-up before a performance. Slowly that turned into plain old pre-show nausea, which is a vast improvement over\u00a0hurling<\/em>. But for too long I am still a deer in headlights and plenty sure I am going to get mowed down by something or someone.<\/p>\n

Really it is amazing that I hung in there at all, considering… My singing teacher was befuddled by the terror that struck me before a performance. \u201cYou\u2019re there to express, not impress,\u201d she would say. \u201cDo you love music? Then share\u00a0that<\/em>.\u201d It all sounded like a bunch of Hallmark card hooey to me. At the time. But she was a smart teacher, a gardener of sorts. She planted seeds.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m lucky because somehow those seeds got watered, apparently when I wasn\u2019t looking, because today, finally, I really enjoy performing and am not astral-projecting out of my body when everyone is staring at\u00a0me<\/em>.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the cause of this metamorphosis? Everything. And everybody. Everyone I have encountered or brought into thought. Talk about \u201cconnection.\u201d And maybe growing up a little has helped too. Not taking things quite so personally, or seriously, and realizing how quickly this life passes anyway. Poof. Whatever I did this morning already feels like a dream. So I play a song, give it my all, then let it go and move on.<\/p>\n

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Photo by Kathy Mandell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I am pleased to report that there is no nausea (or worse) before my CD Release Party and Concert last Sunday. In fact I am thrilled to be there. To share what I love\u2026making music. I am thrilled that folks have purchased tickets to breathe the same air together for two hours. To laugh and sing along and that hubby joins me on a few songs, adding a bit of sass and class. I am thrilled that it\u2019s a full house and I get to be the \u201csinger-songwriter\u201d for an evening and perform my own tunes.<\/p>\n

Then let it go.<\/p>\n

And thanks to all of you!<\/p>\n

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Speaking of moving on\u2026 Here\u2019s a note to the SoCal locals (and locals at\u00a0heart<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Starting Saturday, October 19, 2013, from 11 to noon, in Culver City, California, I am teaching Ukulele for Beginners, a four-week workshop that gets you playing and loving the ukulele.<\/p>\n

So you say you can\u2019t carry a tune. That your fingers are too big. Or too small. You think a \u201cbeat\u201d has something to do with some dead poet. You\u2019ve never played a musical instrument because your \u201cfavorite\u201d aunt said you have no talent for that sort of thing\u2026 Well screw that. The ukulele beckons. Almost everyone can learn this humble, joyful instrument and make music. There is precious little in this world that is more wonderful.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the flyer. So fly over to Boulevard Music and join the ukulele revolution!<\/p>\n

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When you love to do something, keep on doing it. If you can. No matter what\u00a0they\u00a0say. Or don\u2019t say. I can\u2019t tell you how many body blows I\u2019ve taken over the years just doing what I do. Making music. Or how many times I\u2019ve heard my mother\u2019s\u00a0I-told-you-so-voice\u00a0in my head scolding me \u201cyou should have stayed in nursing school\u201d when I got fired from a gig or didn\u2019t get the audition, or whatever. Somehow I kept going anyway and in the … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","kt_blocks_editor_width":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogentry"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":2,"label":"blog entry"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Cali Rose","author_link":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/author\/crbauthor\/"},"comment_info":2,"category_info":[{"term_id":2,"name":"blog entry","slug":"blogentry","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":138,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":2,"category_count":138,"category_description":"","cat_name":"blog entry","category_nicename":"blogentry","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}