Thursday, August 07, 2008

Loss.

Loss.

The last few days have been weird. Distant as we've been from the bedside, it's coloured everything.

I'm sitting in an office in Eindhoven, somewhere on an industrial estate on a changeable Thursday afternoon, killing time before a flight back to the UK and a train ride to a ferry bound for France. And this doesn't help the weird.

I enjoy meeting people. And I enjoy discovering that Momo can help them in some way - working for yourself as a creative is a firmly cool lifestyle, even if many of the professional challenges are far from arty farty. I hope today's meeting and my madcap Presentation On A Train turns into a good little project for the studio and some helpful results for the people I've met.

But it's the people I've lost that are on my mind. Losing a friend and seeing friends lose loved ones is no respecter of the To Do list. Sitting so far from the studio, knowing I won't be back in it until the middle of next week and knowing some clients are jumping up and down about it just adds to the distance I feel about it. I just want to walk away from the schedule altogether. Do the things I most care about.

What I want to do is find a way to fill the hole that Jon has left in his family.

And, much as I love words and pictures, I need to find a way to spend more of my time making musical creative. Making tunes. Before the time or the energy for making a joyful noise is lost.

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