Seth Kahan on Leadership // Monday Morning Mojo
My Secret Addiction
Laura BaronMy wife, Laura Baron, is my secret addiction!

Laura is a singer songwriter with a long list of awards, accomplishments, and CDs. She writes a blog, Daily Dose of the Muse. and I thought her latest post was very cool.

My Secret Addiction

So I don�t smoke cigarettes or drink much (love the occasional Shiraz blend) and I enjoy my cappuccino. But I have this intense craving or maybe it is an addiction. I feel it on most days. It often peeks through when I am swimming in a well of logistics, trying to stay afloat. I feel this tug, this kind of gnawing. So I slip off somewhere quiet with my beautiful Canadian made Larrivee steel string and suddenly I am in a whole other world. I am speaking a language that I know other artistic types share. The language of putting sounds words rhythms paintbrush camera dance steps to feelings both emotional and spiritual that rise up to be experienced, expressed and ultimately witnessed. And in those moments as I am riding those musical waves I feel someone is listening. It�s like having an audience with a very quiet, attentive, an almost invisible friend. But one who listens with her whole heart. And she listens and listens taking in whatever is flowing through at the time. And when those stolen magic moments subside and the songs wind down I look back up at my computer waiting for my eager fingers, at all the bags of groceries spilling out, my kids sprawled with iPads and homework littering the counters and I look up at this invisible someone and say with a bit of a smile and a feeling of relief �Thank you!�


And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
- Roald Dahl
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