I felt like an imposter for 21 years


I felt like an imposter for 21 years

Hi Reader,

If I told you that I was a composer would that surprise you? Probably not. For me, I've struggled with 100% owning that. Calling myself a composer has felt like wearing an oversized shirt that maybe one day I would grow into.

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Let's go back to the beginning... ⏳

Music brightened my world early in life. I would have transcendent experiences while listening to music; traveling far into cosmic, vibratory landscapes.

I started writing music when I was 14 and from middle school through college I spent hours in a flow state composing.

Then something happened...

After graduating college I got lost trying to find a way to make money and so I didn’t have time (or make time) to write music anymore.

Years passed without writing anything and when I listened to music that I had written I'd wonder “how did I write that?”

I started to feel that I couldn’t write anymore and had lost my gift. 😢

When people told me that they were moved by my music I thanked them and had a momentary feeling of satisfaction but almost immediately my inner voice would say...

  • "yeah but it’s not as good as so-and-so’s music" or
  • "it doesn't matter because you don't have control over when you can write music" or
  • "you're not a real composer because you didn't go to school for it" etc.

When I recorded my music with an orchestra for the first time I was deeply moved and inspired by the whole experience and yet there was still a part of me that felt I didn’t belong there.

I thought to myself, "who am I to record music with an orchestra?"

Recently things have shifted for me… ✨

Now I know that I'm a composer and I comfortable embodying that.

  • I accept this about myself simply because music is what naturally flows through me.
  • I accept that my writing comes and goes in accordance with some mystery that I have no control over.
  • I trust that when I experience the creation of music as a gift then it will be a gift to others.

Whatever inspires me to write music also guides my hand in creating it. I've never known how it works. "Not knowing is most intimate". 🙏🏼

This acceptance has led me to larger realizations...

I am a composer and sometimes I do that through music and all of the time I do that through energy. I see the world as energy and therefore I am a composer of experiences and presence. The less attached I am to any outcome, the more magic reveals itself.

My music catalog is a memoir

As part of the corner that’s been turned, I'm celebrating the role that each piece of music has played in my life when I wrote it. Each one has been my medicine and my teacher. My hope is that you will receive some of these gifts when you listen to it.


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