Remember When…

Over the past several days, I have been listening to old recordings that my brother had converted to DVD’s for me.  One of the things he loved to do was to hide a tape recorder in a Christmas Tree during Christmas morning or tuck one in a book shelf and press “record” without any of us knowing.  He has started to send me these recordings.  Some of them are of me, around the time that I was first discovering what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.  I’m reminded of how I have changed in many ways, and in many others; how I haven’t.  Wanting to be center stage has not been one of the things that has changed.  I have had the pleasure of hearing recordings of my late granny who was my biggest fan and to whom I would perform entire “concerts” while on her back porch.  I great motivator for me is remembering when I discovered how much I loved to sing, and to perform.  Tapping in to those memories of when the mind first sparked with the idea of what you wanted to do can bring you back to those moments for a short time and remind you again of those joys; using the past to keep you moving forward.