Being human is a real challenge, but one we signed up for.
For many years I was not able to cry. I could and would feel sadness but often the tears would not come. It has been quite a new experience feeling actual tears fall from my own eyes. Don’t cry or I’ll give you something to cry about. It is true, when we learn this young, we learn, oh I guess we have no real reason to cry so then we don’t. Like for a very long time.
This particular day a tear fell onto my sweatshirt right around my shoulder. I had this entire thought based around this one tear and how it felt and appeared a bit wayward; just as I had felt most my life in many ways. This album was special in that I really became aware that the art was beginning to come from a place deep within myself and beyond myself at the same time. I started to not care about how the art would be received and I made it out of my most authentic soul.
After living a lifetime of what might others think, I can honestly say now, it doesn’t matter. I do not intend to try and offend anyone, but I became aware I was offending myself by all the things I was not saying or being. Being human is a real challenge, but one we signed up for. So we do all we can to meet the challenges with as much grace and dignity as possible.
I hope you will listen to this album in full and connect to all the different expressions that began to flow through me. This is when I first tapped into my roots. My grandfather on my mother’s side was a professional jazz musician, as was my uncle.
Why does it matter to make art? It matters because this is how we learn about who we really are and who we really want to be.
– Jennifer