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Also, thank you to all the people at Center for Spiritual Living in Lafayette for having me there last Sunday. Always great to play for you all.

And the performance at the Firestone Library on Saturday was great too. Thanks to all of you who attended and stayed for the whole show. That was fun, and the cookies were great!

The fabled Jeff Wahl Christmas album was finally completed this month. It was a bit late, but I had to set a deadline to get it done. I'll have it available online for sale by next Christmas at least! Thanks to everyone who bought the CD this season!

O.K. It's Christmas Eve. I don't think I forgot to buy gifts for anyone and I sent out all my Christmas cards. What a wild time the holidays always are!

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We're coming into Thanksgiving week now and I really have so much to be thankful for right now. It's interesting how the more thankful and appreciative I am of what I have, the more I seem to receive. I need to remember this.

I'm off to Fort Collins today for a photo session for the upcoming Christmas album. Being photographed is always a bit weird. I just need to remember to not be self conscious. I look like I look and that's just the way it is.

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One of his last wishes was that I play guitar at his funeral. This was pretty difficult to do, but I was able to pull it off. I just had to save my own grieving for later and be more in "professional mode." It felt good to be able to do it. It's what he wanted.

It's very strange to have a parent die, and I'm sure it's something that will sink in over time. I feel very fortunate that I was able to have this great goodbye that so few get to have when a loved one dies. Once again, I'm amazed at the power of music.]]> http://jeffwahlguitar.com/news.html#43 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 Official homepage of the Guitarist, Jeff Wahl. - Jeff Wahl - News/Journal http://jeffwahlguitar.com/news.html#42 http://jeffwahlguitar.com/news.html#42 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Official homepage of the Guitarist, Jeff Wahl. - Jeff Wahl - News/Journal http://jeffwahlguitar.com/news.html#41 http://jeffwahlguitar.com/news.html#41 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Official homepage of the Guitarist, Jeff Wahl. - Jeff Wahl - News/Journal http://jeffwahlguitar.com/news.html#40 http://jeffwahlguitar.com/news.html#40 Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Official homepage of the Guitarist, Jeff Wahl. - Jeff Wahl - News/Journal http://jeffwahlguitar.com/news.html#39
Actually, it was great. I played for a society of Rolfing massage therapists at their party at the Boulderado in Boulder. That was fun, and I had the great help of Steve Clisset in loading equipment. That was terrific. Thank you Steve.

Then, as soon as that one was done, I zoomed off to Lafayette to play at Mojo Coffeehouse. That was a blast. Thank you to everyone who came out to that and who listened to the music and laughed at my pointless ramblings and stories. Lots of fun. Sleeping felt good when I got home.

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What a weekend. I played a concert for the Poudre River Library District in Fort Collins at the new Council Tree library. It was absolutely amazing. What a great audience. Very, very fun. Thank you so much to everyone who was there. That was soooo much fun! And thanks so to Norman and everyone at the library for continuing to book me there. Man, that was a fune evening.

Saturday night, I played for a wedding reception in Denver. Also, a lot of fun. I did a lot of improvising and found a number of new avenues in some of my compositions.

Sunday morning, I played at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder. That was really cool as well. Thanks to everyone who talked to me afterwards. Hopefully I'll be there regularly.

Anyway, thank you so much everybody. It was a great, absolutely terrific weekend.

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Well, "Light in the Darkness " is doing really well. Magnatune is going to release it soon, which will be cool. They are a huge help to me. Not all music labels are bad!

I've been reading this book called "The Power of Now." It's really great and is having a really positive influence on me. People have been recommending this book to me for a long time, and I finally got around to giving it a chance. I'm kind of burned out on "New Age" self-help books, so it took me quite a while to open this one up.

It's really great. I can't recommend it highly enough. It's basically about tuning in and connecting with the moment you are in and not trying to live your life in the future or the past. Basically, be happy with what you have right now and experience this moment right now. That's what life is, a series of "nows'. I know this isn't a new idea, but it's presented in a way that it really makes sense. What a simple idea that can make such a huge difference in the way life feels. It's like life is happening but you're really not participating if you're focused on the future or the past all the time.

I think it's really easy to be somewhat unhappy with the state of your life and be in a constant state of striving to achieve some magical goal or set of goals that is going to bring happiness and contentment. One of the points of this book, is that while there is nothing wrong with being really achievement and goal oriented, you have to be happy and content right now or you will probably never will be no matter what you achieve.

It sounds very simple, but putting this attitude into practice is not easy. It makes such a difference though. Not being able to accept or enjoy what "is" is really an unbalanced way to live. This idea really hits home for me because I am always fighting with the "is" in one way or another. It's pretty amazing to accept and be happy with what is.

O.K. in other news.

I came upon a family of foxes playing last week while I was driving home at dusk. I pulled over and watched them for a while. It was really amazing. They weren't aware of me for quite a while. I really like foxes and they are kind of my "Totem Animal" for me. I see them a lot, but I've never been able to observe a whole family out playing like this. It was amazing. Eventually, the mama fox saw me and sat up really straight and still and stared at me. This was a signal the fox puppies (kits?) understood and they moved back into the brush to hide. What a cool experience this was. It kind of gave me a little burst of faith. It was kind of magical.]]> http://jeffwahlguitar.com/news.html#37 Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Official homepage of the Guitarist, Jeff Wahl. - Jeff Wahl - News/Journal http://jeffwahlguitar.com/news.html#36
You can listen to all the tracks free here at my website.]]> http://jeffwahlguitar.com/news.html#36 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800 Official homepage of the Guitarist, Jeff Wahl. - Jeff Wahl - News/Journal