50 and Floating

ENROLLING IN THE JEWISH MUSIC CERTIFICATE PROGRAM

PROS
Everyone says "Find your passion"
The class topics interest and excite me.
I don't want to work 9-5 anymore.. I want something new and different.
They say do what you love, the money will follow..
people keep telling me to do something with my voice.


CON
MONEY
MORTGAGE
don't know what I'd do with this when I'm done.
When would I work? I'll need to earn money via part time jobs.
Jobs will need to be flexible to accomodate schedule.

This just posted on Amanda Palmer's blog:

“life will break you.
nobody can protect you from that,
and living alone won’t either, for solitude will
also break you with its yearnings.
you have to love.
you have to feel.
it is the reason you are here on earth.
you are here to risk your heart.
you are here to be swallowed up.
and when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt,
or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree
and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness.
tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could.”

- louise erdrich, the painted drum, p. 247

And someone commented...

Better to live your life to the full and do everything you want to do, rather than leave this planet full of "What if...." or "I wish I had.