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I'm in the last moments of my twenties. Quite an amazing place to be, really. As I celebrate the last moments of the first decade of my true adult life, I'd like to remember some of the things I've done and the things that have happened.


-I found three true friends in a house on Fremont Ave, who have stuck with me through most of these years.

-I graduated college with much more ability than I went in.

-I started a career as a music educator and have become successful at it.

-I have developed a career where I go to work everyday with a sense of purpose and come home with a sense of accomplishment.

-I have become able to make music on my saxophone, the instrument I chose when I was in 5th grade.

-I have learned to create music on the fly with other musicians I have never met.

-I played on stage at the Dakota, the Artist Quarter and the Nostalgia.

-I have been a part of musical moments that moved me and changed me and would have been different had I not been there.

-I have learned to conduct bands and lead them to great musical performances.

-I have taught hundreds of young adults what I know of music. I have helped them walk a path that leads to creation and self expression. I get to do this every day.

-I have learned how to create a website, the graphics, the layout and the code that makes it work all without knowing anything about it going in.

-I have created a website that is visited by hundreds of people every day.

-I have learned how to make a podcast, knowing nothing going in, that hundreds of people listen to every week.

-I have learned to create comics and publish them on the web.

-I became a Timberwolves fan.

-I have learned how to use a quill pen and ink bottle to create art.

-I have learned how to drive a stick shift, something I couldn't do in before I was 20.

-I bought my first house.

-I moved my parents out of the house I grew up in. A house they had lived in for 27 years.

-I have no more grandfathers.

-I laugh. A lot.

-I took a road trip to Los Angeles with my brother, sister and law and fiancee.

-I've traveled to Los Angeles, New York and Los Vegas on business.

-Most importantly, I met the love of my life, the one I will spend the next ten years (and more) beside.

-I conceived a child with my wife. My soon to be first born.


I know that's not all, but those are the things that spring immediately to mind.

Not a bad life I've lived so far.

I'm looking forward to the next ten years.