How Has Your Life Changed?
A Year Can Be A Long Time
Uma and I were talking the other day about our Interview Series. We call it Interviews By Uma, the semi-occasional feature we run where Little Bean (sometimes along with yours truly) interviews musicians and artists.
Just a little over a year ago, her first interview, with Canadian hard rock band Freeze the Fall dropped right here at Day By Day. The response was so positive that she wanted to do more, and so her and I began to develop the series.
Since that first interview she’s done a total of eight: Freeze the Fall, Ashley Suppa of Plush, Kat Leon and Johnny Tuosto of Holy Wars, One Time Weekend, Composer Wendy Stevens, Folk Singers Dan and Faith Senie and Boston-based nu metal band Major Moment. (I contributed some questions in a couple cases.)
On Tuesday, July 1, her next interview will drop and it’s one we’re super excited about because we’ll be seeing Speed of Light in a couple weeks. So stay tuned for that one!
For now, Uma and I can’t believe how much has happened in just 365 days, how many shows, how much better of a musician and a writer she’s become.
And how many people we met. A whole bunch of music fans, from all across the country. We went to Boston, Atlanta, Nashville, Portland for shows. She took acrobatic lessons from real Cirque du Soleil performers. We went to our first Ren Faire. She had a whole bunch of recitals and performed on-stage at the Palace Theatre.
She’s grown stronger and more confident. I often have this conversation with a friend about parents going to shows and events with their kids. And she always tells me, “It’s ok to just like your kids. I like mine. I like doing things with them.” Such a simple concept!
For myself, I feel our connection is stronger. Going into the teen and early twenty years, I hope she’s able to trust me, to feel like she likes doing things with me as well - that maybe the connection we’ve strengthened this year helps us get through into the future.
And so much of where we are now started because of that group of Canadian kids that live 3,000 miles from us but who she wanted to talk to, who she felt a connection with. So we brought her on board here, and that’s become a hobby and project for her.
How about you all? Take account. Who are you now, compared to who you were one year ago? How do you feel? What’s brought you here? What have you accomplished, what did you fall short on? We’d love to hear about it!
Sunday Previews: Coming up this week - Speed of Light, Chapter Nine of the fire tower quest, fences making good neighbors, Baby Metal and much more! Keep sharing, keep recommending and thank you!
My kids are all adults now in their late 20's and 30's with lives and families of their own and we still find time to do things together. My oldest daughter and I take my granddaughter out to events and museums every month and go camping together at least once a year, going camping together this coming week at a state park! My second daughter and I go out to eat or shopping together at least once a month, but she lives over an hour away so we find it hard to see each other as often as we would like to. My son, who shares a house with me, goes to concerts, movies, swimming, shopping, out to eat and on vacations with me regularly and we work on taking care of the house together! My kids and I share a lot of things that we are interested in and talk as often as we can and share memes and videos with each other, almost daily! The real treat is when I get to see all three of my kids together at the same time, often times unexpectedly for no special reasons, just our schedules all line up! For me what has changed the most in the last year has been my work schedule. I no longer work full time, unexpectedly due to losing my job and health issues, and have come to realize that I don't need to work full time anymore to support myself and was pushing myself to hard. It has been amazing being able to find work where I can make my own schedule and take time off when I am not well and need days to recover!
What a great relationship for a parent and child to have. Music binds us all in such a good way. My son & I have shared the interest for many years and now it flows to his own son...pretty special. Oh, and what has changed me? I'm retired and don't feel the need to be doing everything at warp factor 7 like the rest of the world!!