Sweetness

(ok, so I'm cheating... See Nov 2 post about NaBloPoMo since I obviously have more to say and I'm good at finding loopholes for myself, I'm going to write a little bit more here and then date it with Nov 1, since I missed yesterday. Speaking of times being messed up, I can already feel the whole Daylight savings thing messing me up. I woke up "early" and it was still dark, and I'm still hungry at yesterdays times. sigh.)

I helped sell CD's for Sharon at the Dharma fundraiser tonight. It was a sweet yet bizzare evening for me as it was mostly musicians who used to write/play for MMY back before and just after I was born. So they are playing these devotional, sweet, sometimes slightly cheezy songs that I have never heard, and here is this room full of people SINGING ALONG! They were obviously transported right back to those first moments when they had heard the songs, and it was really heart nurturing for them. I felt a little bit like an intruder on a family moment, but I was glad I went and got a glimpse of how the feelings of family and camaraderie must have been built back when all these people my parents age were younger than I am now.

It also reenforced my idea that I want to write songs that are uplifting but universal, that could appeal to a wide audience of positive thinkers, not one brand/school of thought. Not that there's anything wrong with writing specifically to a group of people, it obviously creates something really special. But for my own stuff, I want it to play wider. I think Sharon does it well, and so does Ellis.