…I want to be a music therapist.

You probably could have deduced that from the fact that I’m studying to be one.

…I want to sing.

In a band, with musicians far more talented than I, for money but not worldwide fame.  I don’t want to ‘make it’.  I don’t have the single-minded focus (or the energy) that it takes to succeed in the music industry anyway, so it’s just as well I don’t want to.  I do want to gig regularly in places where people appreciate my music, and sell CDs to a wide audience of internet-shoppers, and make the most of what I have, without having to fit someone else’s mould or sacrifice everything else in my life to get something out of it.  I don’t ever want to lose my love of it.

…I want to write.

I really, really like writing.  Doing these articles for Integrity is quite exciting, because it’s a challenge, but it’s one I really enjoy.  I would love to write regularly for extra cash, for anyone who’d pay me to do it.  I have so much wisdom to share…

…I want to teach.

Not like all the time.  But workshops and stuff, and teaching seminars on subjects I know well – I could so do that.  That’d be awesome.  And good money too.

…I want to organise performances.

Which was what Hadassah Network was all about, and it’s still there in the back of my mind as something I’d love to do one day.  Not now though.  It’s funny, I was really inspired for a while and then the excitement just sort of went, overnight.  Makes me wonder if it’s something God will bring to the forefront again at another time.  After all, most of the initial groundwork was done.  Perhaps the preparation was for something further down the line.

I have way too many ambitions, I know.  But the thing is, these could all go quite easily together.  MT jobs are almost all part-time anyway, and I probably would prefer to be doing a variety of different things, rather than two or three MT posts.  Or who knows, maybe they’ll come and go in seasons.  I guess we’ll see.  It’s cool to have options though.  If a little overwhelming…

In other news, a whale died today on a beach somewhere.    The man they interviewed on TV said “Unfortunately the whale had kidney failure, which means its kidneys weren’t functioning properly.”  We laughed at his stating of the obvious.  We are cruel and heartless.