This is my journey,   this is my journal...

March 2009

Sometimes I feel that every time I turn around I end up running into a brick wall.  

Sometimes it is so hard to get to the other side, and most of us never do.  We spend our 

whole lives just trying to get from here to there.  But oh if  we could only get there,

 we would be crossing the Rubicon and there would be no turning back then.

Maybe some things are just meant to be and others are not.  Wouldn't it be fantastic if 

we could put up a huge umbrella to protect us from those hard  times in life?    

But we can’t stop the rain, it keeps falling down.  Every once in a while life 

gives us a hard pill to swallow and we have to choke it down.

It is so easy to get discouraged in this business.  What the hell does it mean to be 

successful in this business anyway?  Success means so many different things to different 

people. To be successful we quite often have to think outside the box.  I try and have 

been trying for the past 10 years to get my music career off the ground  by writing, 

producing, recording, promoting, booking, performing, and it has been a roller coaster of a ride.  

But each one of these aspects is a full time job in itself.   Now add to the mix that I am a 

farm wife and mother as well as my age.  Well, need I say more? Seem a bit overwhelming?  

Uh huh, I thought so too, but everything happens for a reason.  I truly believe that!  

There are no coincidences in life.  So, if everything DOES happen for a reason, 

then the same thing can be said for those things that DON'T  happen.  All  your 

misfortunes, your disappointments, your failures, the things you have worked 

and strived for in your life, your highest of highs and your lowest of lows, they too

HAVE or HAVE NOT happened for a reason.   

Sometimes we can be deceived.   It is up to us and only us to figure out what this 

universe is trying to teach us, and then learn from it.  We ALL have a purpose in life 

and we are ALL capable of doing miraculous things.  Miracles do happen every day and 

they can happen to you.  Life could be so less stressful if we could just learn to enjoy the ride. 

 I think my body and soul just needed a break. I just needed some breathing space for a while, 

and this pathway that I have been taking is branching out into a new direction.  Maybe I am 

standing on the first stepping stone of a brand new path.   Only time will tell.  All I know is, 

right now, it feels SO good to be alive, and to feel the sunshine kiss my face.

Life is great and I am back!

- Florence Foxwell-

...so on with the journey.