Another great meeting of Asheville Homeless Network.  We have
gotten enough donations that I can even discuss paying me something for
the website work.  I probably spend close to an hour each week
working on that.  I got them to agree to pay me for 15 minutes per
week at $8 per hour… still don’t value myself MUCH, but at least I’m
valuing myself SOME.  They agreed for it, and I got to write
myself a check for last year, $100.  We have been promised other
donations and I’ll pay myself the other $100 when we get some of them.

I played tonight at the Courtyard Open Mic.  I’ve been doing this
for a few weeks now.  Last week I fell into old patterns, acted
nervous, depressed, and put myself down a lot… after my first set, I
got a bit of a hold on myself, and pulled out nothing but my own songs
for the second set.  I did lots better… and finished clearing
the patterns on my walk home.  This week, I went in with a good
attitude and had fun.  Mostly funny songs in the first set. 
I had wanted to do “All the Love In the World” during my second set,
when it began to look like I wasn’t going to get a second set, so I put
the lyric sheet away.  Turns out there was time after all, so I
did a couple of my best Stan Rogers songs, “Fisherman’s Wharf” and
“Lies”.  I did them REALLY well, except for one breath problem
during “Wharf”.

Feeling great, loving myself, working very hard at judging others less
(this was the first Open Mic with hip-hop “artists”, that was really
hard to sit through… and I noticed that they came just before their
set and left right after it, so they weren’t there for the community,
just the mic… ok, trying to not judge that behavior, but again, it’s
hard)…

May your life be free from karmic cowflops!

Hugs,
Moss