11.06.25 - ‘Simple Things’

I love looking at the clouds, and many songs have had their start by this cloud-gazing. So that’s where this project is starting!

The creative process is one that needs to be stewarded well, continually refined, and exercised daily. I’ve given myself a month-long challenge of accomplishing the same creative task every day. My goal was three-fold: write something, record something, share something.

Each day, I’ll take a picture of the clouds that day. Visually, I think this will be a rewarding outcome in the end!

I’ll also write something. I’m keeping the bar achievable, so it doesn’t need to be an entire song. It doesn’t even need to be a great start. But it must be something.

And then I’ll combine the visual with the auditory and have a creative piece to post. My calendar will be populated by these ‘cloud comps.’ Some song might come from it, it might be nothing more than getting all the bad ideas out. But the end result will be the continual honing of the creative discipline. And a cool calendar with clouds to look at!

THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY:

From the window of my studio, I saw my neighbor sit down in her woodshed and pet an outdoor cat. It was such a simple but lovely picture of a sweet moment. It brought to mind a phrase I’ve had written in my notebook for a little bit: ‘the glorious ordinary.’

It took a few iterations to figure out the right phrasing and chord structure, but in the end, I feel like I’ve captured the feeling I had as I looked through the window into someone else’s ordinary moment.