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Bridgette Meinhold's avatar

I am also deeply listening to myself right now, and the resounding message is to keep doing my own work. To keep doing what lights me up; to connect with friends, family, and community; and to be available to give my gifts to help others as needed. All work is important if you are doing it from a place of love. So I am grounding in and working on my path in the way I know how. The talk about resistance resonated - that if we push up against a thing we don't want, we will struggle. For many years I have been trying to not do that, and instead to work on building things that my heart wants. It's so much more fun to run towards something rather than run away. So, let's build great things.

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Ryan Milford's avatar

Well, firstly, here’s my “hells yeah!”

A collective sounds like a fantastic idea, Lisa! Let’s make it happen.

The music/creative process dynamic really is fascinating, isn’t it? And on a personal level, while it has been an undeniable building block in my ever-evolving journey (as my various and eccentrically named “Writing Playlists” can attest), the delivery has never been linear, either.

I’m firmly planting my flag in my early 2010s era here but by the time I was in the fifth/sixth grade, iPods and whatnot had become ubiquitous - and I really can’t overstate just how much that changed the “work period”. Rather than being there in silence, everyone, myself included, would be plugged in instead, something that just became the standard, for better or worse, as the years passed. So I’ve always held that association close. I can and often prefer writing with music as a supplement. It can help me focus, lock in and to your point, assist on honing in on a specific energy. But my “writing music” (soundtrack compositions, Americana, folk, etc) is radically different than say, what I’ll listen too when I’m driving/commuting, doing literally anything else - it is a distinction I’ve always found super interesting.

Lately, I’ve been listening to (or rather, rediscovering) quite a bit of Caamp, Camp Cope as well as The Frights. I first saw The Frights as an opening act about ten years ago, when they were just starting to find their legs as a touring group (in support of their second album, “You Are Going To Hate This”).

They were about fifteen minutes late getting onstage but were super apologetic. They wanted to let us all know (a Canadian crowd) that they had just tried poutine for the first time and they were all very excited about it - they were quickly forgiven and played an absolutely fantastic set: which, now that I’m thinking about it funnily enough, was twice as memorable as what the headliners put together.

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