Merlin the Magic Baby
Hey everyone. I hope you all had an amazing holiday and that your new years kicked off well! Just wanted to pop in and share some news… :)
My honey and I had the most amazing gift ever given to us on December 10th, 2008… Our little boy Merlin was born, our little miracle. Words cannot describe how in love I am with this little guy.
We spent our first couple weeks with Merlin at Seattle Children’s hospital. He has a condition that puts him at risk for seizures and a couple other things, so he had to undergo all kinds of tests and be monitored closely for awhile. He also was born with a birthmark on his face (part of the condition) which makes his face look like a little yin yang. We love it. He is a magic little Buddha baby. He made so many amazing things happen in his first few days and weeks of life, you wouldn’t believe it. He brought both our families together, which was awesome! He traveled two states in his first two days (he is a Sagittarius). And health and happiness-wise, he’s doing great.
As for me, motherhood is something so new and so intense and so wonderful, it can’t be described, it can only be experienced. All I can say is it’s worth every sacrifice a thousand times over, and I can’t wait for every one of you to become a parent and know the joy that Larry and I feel each day looking at this precious little human being, who is so powerful and yet so completely innocent and dependent on us for everything, and so so beautiful…
While we were staying in Seattle at the hospital, we bought a ukulele to serenade little Merlin with. He loved it so much. Check out this beautiful video of him listening to his daddy play to him. He loves music. He’s really responsive to it, and recognizes songs we played for him while he was in my belly. :)
Well, not to go on and on. I wasn’t sure whether I even wanted to post this, being such a private person and not wanting to plaster images of my baby all over the internet. But you guys are cool and besides, I can’t help myself. I have to show the little dude off a little. He’s so awesome! :)
That said, forgive me if I’m not back here checking and replying to comments anytime soon. I do come and read them every so often, and I appreciate them all (except for the spam), but one thing I do not have is much free time (I had no.. idea)… and that time is usually spent asleep or definitely doing something other than typing on the internet. So needless to say the blogging hiatus most definitely continues. You all understand. I wish you all the best, and rest assured, eventually, I will be back!
much love,
the Brooke and family :)
See You Around 2010
I had an epiphany recently, one which left me with the unshakable desire to all but retreat from this online world. That means — hibernate this blog, remove all my personal contact info from all those social networks, stop ‘adding friends’ to anything, and - less gladly but quite necessarily - say a fond farewell to the many many cool people out there that I wouldn’t have had the privilege of knowing by any other means, but who are just too distant and too great in numbers to keep corresponding with.
Since finding out I was pregnant, I’ve felt my priorities drastically shifting and myself moving towards decisions like this, but this weekend it became strangely, suddenly urgent to my sense of well-being that I do this. My sweetheart Larry and our little one, my family and close friends - in real life - these are the people I need around me and really care about, and they’re all I have room in my life for. When the baby arrives, that will only become more true.
Am I going to keep making music? Der, of course! And when I have something worth putting out there, I will, but I don’t need to be an internet attention whore in the meantime to do that (more the contrary, in fact). There was a time when I thrived on being out there, talking to a whole bunch of people, sharing my experiences and learning about all the possibilities out there, but that phase has run its course and left me unfulfilled. Now I thrive on the private, personal, important things, like just being with my honey, going to the lake, strumming guitars in bed, singing to my belly, writing songs, spending weekends with close friends, talking to my mom on the phone, cooking nice meals, playing with our dog, making plans for our future, and just taking better care of myself and those I love.
As far as creative endeavors like music, same thing. I just want to make music. Not blog about music, not email people I’ve never met and probably never will meet about music. Make music. Play music. I’m returning to the simpler ways of the olden days, when music was really about the simple joy of making music, and it was done well, and for all the right reasons.
So this blog will soon disappear. Probably not forever. I may resurrect it (in some simpler form) around 2010 - or whenever I have something finished that I’m really proud of and want to share with the world. Meanwhile, thanks, everyone, for everything! We had good times! But things change (as they should).
I leave you with a favorite Irish blessing…
Shnikeys!
Sorry, people who left comments that were awaiting approval in the past week! Somehow I was not getting the email notifications to go approve them, and hadn’t checked the blog itself in a while. My apologies for the wait. Or the deep, soul-crushing sadness you must have felt if you thought your comment had been sucked out through the internet tubes of darkness, never to be seen again. This is not so. Your comment should now be visible.
Hey, check out my latest pregnant belly shot!
Belly Shot!
The Songseed Premonitions… premonition
Little by little as I can steal minutes here and there, I’m getting these old songseeds narrowed down, edited a bit better and fixing the levels (as best I can, these are very lo-fi recordings) so they’re more listenable as a collection. I’m going to put them up on my last.fm page as an ‘album’ soon for easier downloading and stuff, as soon as I have them all sounding good enough. But for now I thought I’d just start putting the finished ones up on divshare as I go so you can at least check a few out right away, in case you’re one of those impatient people like me.
Here’s me yesterday tweaking sound levels n stuff, just for you! Later kids!
