Maybe it was just time for me to make a change. Vox, the free and user friendly blog site, is shutting down at the end of this month. So here I am, starting over again and learning to navigate a new blog interface while importing all my old posts from Vox, where I first began to explore my long neglected interest in music and songwriting. I had begun using Vox as a songwriting forum in November 2006 with my first post of a song inspired by several trips to Japan for family reasons. The trips beginning in 2003 after an absence of more than 20 years, had triggered a re-examination of my life to date and reflections on what might make it better.
One particular train ride from Tokyo to Matsumoto to “see a castle” led to a short song about an experience that seemed to symbolize a new direction, and a re-awakening of a long dormant desire to exercise whatever creative capacity I still had left in me. You can check that brief November 2006 post in my archives, or you can listen here to that first effort in its original form about “Shinjuku Station”
which was the jumping off point for the train ride, and a symbol of the confusion of choices we often face in trying to find the right direction.
Meanwhile, it looks like all my audio files are still on Vox which means I have about 2 weeks to upload all the original mp3 files to WordPress and relink them to each post before Vox goes down, if I want to keep the archives intact. Sounds like a good way to get to know WordPress a little better.
So I will start off this new blog with a link to a new song on flickr about my other part time passion: capturing images in both film and digital form to post on flickr, and combine at times with my simple songs to tell a short story.
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