I started a part time job a few weeks ago, thus the 2 songs in a row from Tim. Way to take two for the team, Tim. The first month of a new job always seems to take it out of you and, as I have a hard time being split focused sometimes anyway, I’ve found myself thinking multiple times “When will there be enough time to do all the things I want to do?” And then it occurred to me: there will never be enough time. Time is one of the few things we have absolutely no control of. NONE. We can’t have more, get more, cry for more or buy more, we can only choose what to do with it. Time just slips through our hands never to be recovered. Even the time that we call now is gone already.

So my “new” New Year’s resolution (if you remember from the last vid cast, my “old” New Year’s resolution was to lose weight…so original, I know!) is to quit whining about not having enough time and live in the moment I’m given. Plus, this New Year’s resolution is less quantifiable than my last one (of which I haven’t had time for… HA!) and works quite well with my right-brain, don’t-box-me-in artistic side…and probably drives all you left-brainers a little crazy!!!

-patrick

ps Just to get a little taste of what the back and forth process of our recording is like we included a little chat transcript from the past week here.

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I wrote this song when Patrick and I were out at the Stone Barn last go around. We’d been rehearsing all day and I was just struck by how incredibly blessed I was to have a wife that was supportive of my ridiculous life.

I’ve got a wonderful wife, and sometimes it doesn’t seem fair that someone as special as her ended up with somebody like me. And I hope when you are married you’ll be able to experience the same thing.

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I’m writing this in a food poison induced haze, so my apologies if there are sentence fragments, incomplete thoughts, or just general confusion.

I’m a pretty insecure person, but I’d like to think that I’m improving.  This manifests itself in a number of ways. Primarily I’m extremely critical of everything, jealous of other people’s success, and scared to fail.  I’ve been noticing it more lately so what I set out to do was write some sort of sarcastic/happy kind of song to put my insecurities out there.  Turns out I don’t write very happy music But its been a good process for me the past few months to really stop and think before I speak.

Patrick tends to get the brunt of my negativity, which, when there’s only two of you, makes for a non-creative, unpleasant environment.  So I’m glad I wrote/recorded it, if for nothing else than to expose my negativity and to put myself out on a proverbial limb.  Hope some of you cynics out there can enjoy it.

-T

p.s. When I sent this to Patrick there were only two lines that I really wanted to change, but they were actually his favorites. Kind of par for the course for us

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For the last 2 years or so I’ve been learning to pay attention to how I feel. I’ve spent much of my life pleasing other people and as a result, haven’t owned my own feelings but instead take cues from people around me on how I should feel.

I’m discovering what a lonely place that is to be. But to move from there, one would have to allow themselves to feel, which awakens the feeling of loneliness and introduces pain.

I once read that Mother Teresa struggled with the idea of feeding rice to starving children because although their bodies needed it so badly the rice awakened a hunger in them that brought with it much pain. The pain was awakened like a sleeping lion.

Now, I’m being a little melodramatic here but there are similarities in how allowing ourselves to experience feelings fully, brings with it pain. But if one refuses to feel the negative things does he really feel the positive?

I want to be one who feels deeply…

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