In Wayne's Footsteps:

Much to the disappointment of my sister and family, its become clear that I'm no investigative journalist. My problem isn't writing skills so much as the fact that I just don't care enough about the human race to aggressively pursue or market a story. Can't take what we do that seriously; nor am I particularly ambitious.

That said, as I review this blog's posts from its origins, I realize that I've been on,...well, a long intermission. I should have begun writing Tales From the Green Room right after I quit my job at the insurance company a little over a year ago. I was never going to get a better investigative position than that, so when I quit I was really saying goodbye to the industry. Or should have been.

But then I got a new job right away--seemingly out of the blue. Considering myself lucky in this economy, I grabbed it; and maybe I was. But all it really did was set me back a year. An intermission you might say, 'til I got laid-off in June.

But now I know I'm going to write Green Room. That's my goal for the next few months, though in fact there's no rush. I don't know if its gonna be a blog or a book; or if its just going to sit on my desktop for my own amusement. Don't really care either. I'm not writing it as a commercial endeavor and if I never finish it I wont lose any sleep. Its not really about finishing so much as its about working on it. Tales From the Green Room will be my own meditative space. My personal prayer-book of my own creation that will document both my being and becoming. And lead me into the future.

Now.



"I knew that this human revolution thing would take awhile. I couldn't rush it. Then I got to a place where I didn't worry about music at all anymore. I became more confident about the inner resources I was building. The stuff that can't be seen."



"...I made a life choice that transcended profession, position, or station. Everyone talked about the onslaught of my partners--Jaco and Joe, but that's wrong. It was something I was going through myself. Other aspects of my life were developing. I was going through a metamorphosis...parts of myself that had been stunted for a long time started to grow, and they met resistance. A lot of resistance came in the form of 'Hey, you're not taking care of your music, you're not the 100% musician you're supposed to be.' But I let everything go, I didn't try to do some forced music, which would have been catastrophic, to commit that kind of suicide."






"...Wayne didn't want to influence the other musicians. He wanted to wait and see what happens. Because a lot of Wayne Shorter is about waiting. I have never seen a musician who could wait more than Wayne Shorter." --Miroslav Vitous

*NOTE: All pics of Wayne Shorter were stolen off Google Images and are probably copyrighted. All quotes stolen from Wayne's biography Footprints by Michelle Mercer (which is also probably copyrighted).