So what’s the point of this silliness?

(Journal Entry)

For at least 20 years I have struggled with anger. Therapy, dream work, meditation, journaling, self-help books, exercising, group therapy-not much helped. Well maybe a little. Then recently I read Jung’s “Man and His Symbols” and Gayle Delaney’s “Breakthrough Dreaming.”  Perhaps my new therapist who is helping me lighten up... I find myself writing silly poems and drawing flowers. 

What really surprises me is that this composition, which brings together my drawings, writing and music has lighter more genuinely light moments than I have written recently. Yes there were some in my collaboration with Dennis Yerry on our theater work “JMA” and there were many in the songs I wrote, some with my wife when our son was born, but there is something new here. A playfulness which dispels my despair the way the sun gently lifts the morning mist.

A year after I wrote this, I still have not combined the music, drawings and this text…

Maybe I won’t or who knows…

I’ve got bigger fish to fry.