A True Funny Story About a "Synchronicity"
I remember writing my first poem in the car, when I was about 6 years old, traveling with my parents. The poem rhymed and was really long and told a story. It wasn't until about age 23 that I began seriously songwriting.
When I was about 23, I was moving out of province, my car packed, driving by myself on the highway. I got into the mountains, and my radio died, so, I started singing. At that point, I really didn't do either, and had only wished I could sing and song-write.
I was enjoying the drive, making up words and tunes. Pure joy is. more like it. I liked some of the stuff I came up with, and thought, "I wish I had a little tape recorder." I had just sold a miniature tape-recorder, at a garage sale, a week prior, before I left. But I didn't have my tape recorder any longer, so I just kept driving and singing.
Ten minutes later, I pull into a gas station, a man runs over to me, and shouts, "Hi! We're out of gas! Do you want to buy a tape recorder?" It was miniature in size, like the one I had sold at my garage sale.
I gave the man $20 and a tennis racket in exchange for the tape recorder. I sang into my tape recorder the rest of the trip. A few weeks later, I compiled my first folk song, "Grass Is Greener Than Money", in my new home, from memos I recorded on my miniature tape recorder." I have written around 300 others songs since that day.
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