My Aunt Sophie’s advice: “Trust you will find someone who will love your dreams as much as you!”
One of the best pieces of advice I received was from my mom’s Aunt Sophie. Aunt Sophie told me how she met her husband, our Uncle Ralph, while he was playing upright bass at a jazz club in Detroit.
“Was it difficult being married a musician, Aunt Sophie?” I asked.
“Sure, it was hard when Ralph came home from work, and then had to rush to a gig and was gone till 2 AM. But what was easy was loving someone for their dream, which is a part of who they are!”
She always reminded me that I would find someone who loved me for my dream of music, and just hearing that reminder to be hopeful got me through some lonely times during my twenty-something years in a small town aways from my family.
Today’s my first wedding anniversary. I feel extremely lucky to have found Natalie, a person who has wonderful, creative dreams of her own!
I think of my Aunt Sophie’s advice on days like yesterday, days where I arrive home at 2 AM from a long gig in Lansing, where I come home to find my wife sleeping in bed with all the lights on and a book in her face, still waiting for me to get home. (And our dog Lois there, claiming my spot in bed!)
Her advice was simple and powerful: Trust you will find someone who will love your goals, for your goals make you, you!
PS: Have you heard my new love song, released today?
My surprise performance of Love Birds for Nat at our wedding!
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