Blog 740 – 09.01.2017
Famous Writer/Singer/Songwriter Makes The Papers

I have had my picture in the papers a few times, today’s picture being proof of that. It is hard for me to think that I was ever that little but I was. Artists aspire always for their work to be well-known. Writers and singers are no exceptions. One of my comical brothers (all men are my brothers – sisters too) commented after hearing one of my vocals the other day, “I have not read his writing but maybe he should quit writing and do more singing.” Knowing my red headed brother’s sense of humor it was probably tongue in cheek that really meant, “Tell him not to quit his day job.”

I do not write or sing to get rich and before you say, “Good thing”, I do it because believe I have something to share. And, before heaven, I mean to share it with as many and as far and wide as I can. That little baby in the picture was for several years a shy and retiring little guy but somewhere along the line he found his pencil and his voice and he has been sharpening them both ever since. I have to date written one hundred and seventy blogs,  many more poems than that, sung hundreds of songs, and even written a couple of books. I have as yet not gotten my picture in the paper for any of that but then they have not published my obituary yet, so I have time.

I spend some of it everyday, child of the Universe that I am, playing. Some of my most favorite play is with words and notes. I hope it shows. The little guy in the picture could not even sing a jingle nor write even his own name but he kept at it till he could. All of life is just practice for the great speech, that famous autobiograpical novel, that packed out concert. Hey, brother/sister, like the little guy, I’m just tuning up.

Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White