Nothing has gone the way I wanted it to, and it never will. The dreams of my youth splash vivid color up against rigid, gray walls of misunderstanding, some of the red is blood from busted knuckles working on my own car.
I have plenty of color and pressure to deface and crush the walls of the establishment with. Why haven't I used my tools? Why does it feel like some things are inevitable? That's the way the design goes- but, no more.
I have drilled into the core of me, and I know now that there is a well to draw from that has no affiliation with the institutions that have commanded me thus far.
Now is the time that I work, alongside so many other brave and determined people, to viciously erupt a loving island of opportunity and progress in this salty sea of old status.
A lot has happened in my personal life, but it's not essential to share here. Today I want to let you know what I am going to put my heart and mind to in the new year, with hope that it inspires you to do the same.
2018 will not be another year of relying solely on a system that keeps most of us under. 2018, I pray, give me the spirit of independence, that I may do the things that need to be done.
I find myself so frustrated by shopping, spending, earning, in all these tired old ways. In the new year I want to be an example of commerce that transcends the paper dollar, and breaks into the currency of the soul, in which, I believe this platform has thoughtfully invested itself.
Join with me in the excitement of having things of our own
GARDENS
BUILDINGS
HOME
LEISURE
COMMUNITY
SPIRIT
&
CULTURE
I want to meet people I want to travel more in the new year. I want to take up a sledgehammer, bust the old covers, and see the frame of things. That's the way I am about to go into the Whitaker Music Building you can read about in my older posts. We have decided to clear all the old paneling and such, and to build back around it's bones. This is happening eveywhere; old ideas being stripped of their toxic, mildewed, facade, revealing the sturdy bones ready for newness!
My ambitions for 2018 are to bring the beginnings of a community that can come together around genuine, locally-generated, food, art, music, fun, and CREATION.
My passions are making music lessons more accessible, creating a skate-friendly community and building a skate park that is safe and fun, getting rollerskates and skateboards to kids, creating art that can be put on skate decks, making good vegan food, keeping kids invested in appalachian culture and history as it pertains to them, keeping folks in the know about the state of the world.
Nothing is going to stop me in 2018, i will beg, steal, and borrow, until I see the goodness come!!
Love from the dry drifting snow brushing at the warm windows,
tommy in the sun
