tomorrow

Rehearsal last night and again today, pads off, drums naked, loud and uh, loud. I finally got to really hear what my shime sounds like in action and it's beautiful. My solos went ok when we played them. I've worked so hard on my Kanki no Wa solo and I'm proud of it. Kaito Ryu was a disaster. The others stopped playing, and it threw me off, so now I know that if I really know what I'm doing, then I MUST KEEP PLAYING. I was doing ok too.

When Echo sings her song, it makes me cry. Today, literally, I was crying. Even through Timbuktu. So beautiful. I just want to make something beautiful for Mom. I'm glad that my friends will be there in the audience, and my other friends will be on stage all around me, and we'll all be there making this wonderful music composed by wonderful people and that I can give something to her that comes from my heart, from the place that is really at my center of who I am and what I love to do and am passionate about. Tomorrow will be all about her. I hope that I have the strength and spirit to play with everything I have so that I can do this for her.

I'm doing all of this for Mom.