Winter is at last upon us, beginning about an hour ago:
One upside - the only one, I'll venture - is that this may put a damper on tonight's band meeting. One can only hope.
Done a fair amount of soul searching over the last few days, questioning my direction, my future, and specifically my continued involvement in Guitar Craft. There are many factors at work here; the main challenge is that I am being called to do other things musically, and the growing rift I feel with many of my fellow Crafties, who are proving to be an ever more vocal bunch of bleeding-heart pinkos. I can't understand how it is that everything we have been taught is so easily abandoned when politics enters the picture. At any rate, I have a sense that it may be time to move on. Robert himself has said "For some, Guitar Craft is the Way; for others, it is a way to the Way." It would seem that I have moved into the latter category.
Ironically, it is much the same situation as with politics itself - the philosophy and system are sound, but it's practitioners have fallen woefully short.
Good habit is necessary, bad habit is inevitable.
Snow?!!? Say it ain't so. But then again, snow this week and no snow next week will work just fine. I am on a big bird in the sky next Wednesday to head to PA. I'll wave as we fly over VA. :)
ReplyDeleteSometimes we outgrow things and have to move on which is what I suspect is happening with you. Or maybe we grow and others don't.
Good luck with that forecast - rumor has it we're in for another winter like last year. Bah.
ReplyDeleteGrowth (or not) is part of the issue, certainly. Guitar Craft itself is in a state of limbo right now, having been officially disbanded earlier this year while continuing onward, with most awaiting to see what the next phase of the work will be. Part of the problem is that we are the ones who will to some extent be determining this. RF stated that the first 21 years of GC were about Injunction - "Do This"; the next 21 years would be about Application - "You Know What to Do, Go Do It". I remember thinking at the time that No, I Don't know what to do, and hoping that some of the older mentors would be available to help. Now it turns out that many of them are lost and aimless, either going through the motions of business as usual or bickering among themselves about irrelevant nonsense, while I have a pretty fair idea of what I, at least, need to do.