Phil, OF COURSE.
I just described it to you. But EVERY BAD THING IS NOT ALWAYS A GOOD THINGS. Good people die in accidents or suicides and there is no good in that. But it might teach a car company about safety or prevent someone else from killing themselves. How much effect do you think the suicide of Robin Williams will help toward funding for Parkinson's research? How much did Christopher Reeve's spine breaking accident raise for Spinal injury research. Have you been watching the news where they now have a new exoskeleton that wounded troops are using to be able to walk again? A lot of money for that research and awareness came from Christopher Reeve's accident and foundation, including Hollywood celebrities who did fund raisers and brought attention to it and gave money to the foundation.
Yes, you had some bad luck with your car. Everybody does. We have had our own situation here over the past two weeks with cars. Happens. But maybe you'll get over later to the Frank Brown festival and have a couple extra days rest. That might give you a little extra energy to hang out a little longer or see another show you might not have. That might allow you to randomly run into someone at the open mic, get you a different slot where someone sees you play your songs and like what you do and you might get another co-writer, and next year, a song you wrote with them might be your favorite song you do.
Maybe it will be about car trouble. Which, if you remember, traffic delays factored into RiDawn being late for our writing sessions where we did BORED GAMES. That led to a very good demo on a song you were a writer on and her doing it out on dozens of shows around Nashville. I'd say that is a pretty good thing.
This year when someone asks you "who you have written with", you can say RIDAWN RAE AND MARC ALAN BARNETTE, and someone who knows and adores RiDawn (and there are a TON OF THOSE) and someone might have even heard her do that song. And BOOM you have another little "in" with someone you could write with. And that could lead you to writing with SOMEONE ELSE who you like, which will lead you to writing with SOMEONE ELSE you wanted to write with.
Always something positive you can look at. How's that for moral support?
MAB
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