2 Weeks of 29...

So my birthday was August 31, and how did I celebrate? I TOOK A NAP!!! LOL, I was exhausted because the day before we had my wife's baby shower and it was insanity. Wonderful, but pure insanity. I was the only grown man in a house with like 30 women and children. Nuff said! But that's not the subject of this blog. What I really wanted to talk about was what it feels like to be un ano short of the big 3-0. So in the words of the Joker, "Here....we....go!"

I feel exactly the same. Well, not exactly the same, but I don't really know what it means to feel 'my age'. Of course, I have grown man responsibilities, with my wife, my child soon to come, bills, and all the other positions I've been placed in, but I still have dreams like a little kid, and I still feel like a kid sometimes. Shoot, I spend most of my day 10 months of the year with teenagers, so I guess it's only natural that I still keep some of that youthful hope and energy that some of them exhibit.

To be honest, I actually feel better now than I have in a while. I've managed to avoid the early mid-life crisis by focusing on all the blessings that are staring me in the face each day: life, my wife, my daughter (even though she's not here yet), my job (even though it drives me crazy), and most importantly, my God. People face the whole 'crisis' thing because they lose sight of their identity. We lose sight of our identity because we lose sight of our purpose. And if nothing else, I do know I have a purpose, and I don't know the final destination, but I'm sure trying to walk the correct path there.

So, where's my correct path gonna take me. Not sure, but I'm confident my faith will guide me, and y'all will see where the journey takes me through my music, my poetry, and of course, my blogs. We'll see how it goes grinding at 29.

Spit Life,

E. Minor

Coming Up for Air!!!

This last couple weeks has been a MONSTER! I feel like I've been running almost purely on adrenaline, like being chased in a horror movie or something, with everything that's been going on. Last week was the first week of school, which is a beast all by itself, and in the last 8-9 days there's also been my wife's baby shower, my birthday, my church's back to school program, a church conference, and let's not forget that I started a new workout routine that requires that I'm up no later than 5:00 a.m. 4 of 5 mornings during the week. Needless to say, I have a lot of messages that I haven't returned, and I haven't made much forward progress on the completion of this collab album since I went back to work.

Hopefully, this 3-day weekend has been enough to get me rested so I can return to making music and get my mind right. There's always something that seems to come up to throw my schedule into overdrive, but I'm praying for balance each day now so I don't allow myself to become overwhelmed by the things I need to and want to do.

On a side note, I've been reading up on the DNC last week, and it will be very interesting to see how the RNC unfolds this week in Minneapolis. If I see or hear anything 'special' enough, I might just be back up here before the end of the week. Until then, I've got a new song up on my Myspace page called 'Binoculars'. Check it out and let me know what you think.

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