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Notes from David: Welcome to AIRSTREAM. Please keep hands and feet inside the vehicle until it has come to a complete stop. These are travel songs, but hopefully they’re not just postcards of what I’ve seen. Each of these songs... See more » Notes from David: Welcome to AIRSTREAM. Please keep hands and feet inside the vehicle until it has come to a complete stop. These are travel songs, but hopefully they’re not just postcards of what I’ve seen. Each of these songs has a particular vantage point, but together they outline an inside journey that shows not just what I’ve been looking at, but rather how our travels have changed the way I see. You might want to wait until you’ve made up your own mind about these songs before you read this, but if you’re curious, here’s how I think they fit together. In these days of random playback, I see a sequence to these songs, and this is how it goes: Right On Time Forever Now Perfect Storm Three Brothers Plain View The Reason Reaper Sweepstakes Falling For It To Love Little White Lie This Old Car Never Change No Telling The Crossings Not that I always start with the ending, but it’s really a circle of songs and the end informs the beginning, so let me say that the song THE CROSSINGS was inspired by visiting some friends of a friend. Ken and Joyce Beck were people we had to meet. Elizabeth Lesser who co-founded the Omega Institute told us about a place in Austin, Texas called The Crossings. We pulled up with our Airstream trailer and had the experience that this song describes. Nance and I and Nate had sold our home and cast off the bow line ready to be moved by the wind and current. Nate was 12 when we left, and when we got home he was 14 and all our lives had changed. In the two years we wandered, we met some wonderful, inspiring people. There were small time movie makers who quit their day jobs to work at what they loved. There were potters and painters and poets and weavers and glass blowers and story tellers and life coaches and musicians, people who left their communities and people who started communities, and even families who sailed around the world, but here in Austin was a place called The Crossings that was founded to help people begin their journey. It’s a place to go to be inspired, to set sail. Whenever we would tell folks about our travels, most people we talked to said that they had always dreamed about taking off like we did. But there was something about that first mile. There’s a transition from dreaming to drifting, the letting go into the current, before any plans take shape, that scares us. My old song SLIPPING THROUGH MY FIST is about that letting go, but this song is about what happens next. We are met. We eddie out into a strong current that is life itself. And things happen that make us shake our heads and smile at the choreography of the coincidence. The Timing of it all. We would have missed all this if we had stayed home another minute. But we left right on time. And this brings us back up top to the beginning of the AIRSTREAM CD. The song RIGHT ON TIME is celebrating the bold confidence we feel when we set out into the start of something, knowing that it’s right. Oh, it could be love. It could be a wake up call, down deep in your soul. It takes what it takes, but when we’ve hurt enough, it’s time. When the yearning to bloom becomes stronger than the fear of opening, the bud becomes the blossom. We dare to trust what must be - rather than what was. Once we get unstuck, even the old pain gets changed into gratitude. This place in the circle of songs is where the roller coaster goes from click, click, click up that first hill, to then tipping the top and transforming all that potential energy into exhilaration. Nance would smile at how excited I would get when it was time to hook up the trailer in the early morning on the days when we would roll. Yesterday is exactly where we’ve gotten to so far, and today we’re perfectly poised to get to where we’re going, wherever that is. And the frontier we’re headed for isn’t anywhere on the map. It isn’t something you could take a picture of. It isn’t something to look at, it is more a new way of seeing, a change in how we look at the world and ourselves. The feeling of certainty that we feel at the start doesn’t mean that the path is certain. It just means See less »

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