Slow is smooth, smooth is fast
Everything is sacred if you make it your perspective, not so serious that you hesitate as if it’s all too delicate and precious. Embrace it, give thanks for it, love this life like it’s objective.
Track 5 - Go Slow
The Light, the Dark, and Magic…
I’ve been running fast
Don’t like going slow
I’ve been burning gas
Got some place to go
So much on my mind
It’s been harder to sleep
Told a friend of mine
This is what he said to me
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You gotta go slow to go far
Try to stay light on your feet
Better relax when you can
Never know what life will bring
If there’s one thing I know
It’s that the journey is sweet
Ya gotta go slow to go far and
Remember to breathe
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Took a lot of time
Think I worked it out
Pretty sure I’m fine
Still I have my doubt
How'd it come to be
So hard to perceive
A simple conversation
That good friend had with me
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You gotta go slow to go far
Try to stay light on your feet
Better relax when you can
Never know what life will bring
If there’s one thing I know
It’s the journey is sweet
Ya gotta go slow to go far and
Remember to breathe
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Breathe it in
Exhale out
Let the sunshine fill you now
Slow is smooth
Smooth is fast
All your trouble soon will pass
Produced by Karl Roth
Thanks for listening!
I tattooed the word ‘now’ on my top of my wrist, so that out of my habit to be quite neurotic with time, planning, and always looking to what’s next- I could be reminded to be present.
Turns out it’s become a bit of a curse in moments where I’m desperately looking for the exact time- not truly a curse 🤣, though sometimes being reminded that it’s right now can be an exhausted joke.
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When I’m honest with myself, when I can soften a bit into essence of the long game of life, it helps me. I’m wired to create, to take action, to look ahead, strategize, and be ready for the next move in this 3D chess game of life.
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My chill factor has been on a steady decline as I’ve matured into my thirties.
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Now I’m a husband and a father- I’ve got a family to protect and care for, and foster quality time to nurture and grow with. I own a retreat center and permaculture farm that we live at here in the mountainous jungles of northern Colombia and manage the operations and growth, employees and volunteers, plan, host, and facilitate transformational retreats and special events that require an absurd amount of logistics, planning, marketing and execution- and we’re currently in a rebranding process. I facilitate monthly online courses of my self awareness program- ‘purpose spark’. I write a new song every week and host a songwriting collective I founded called ‘the game’- where I a give a prompt every Wednesday and the game is to write and record a new song using that prompt and upload it to our group before midnight on Tuesdays- we’re in our second year of the game now and have 35 songwriters from around the world participating. I host a monthly men’s group that’s met via zoom on the second Monday of every month since July of 2020. I’m the tour manager of a national touring band called ‘Satsang’ with which I go on the road with to facilitate 3-4 week tours about 3 times a year. I have a chocolate business called ‘Chuma’ and make hand craft bean to bar, two ingredient dark chocolate- supplying a local artesian ice cream shop all of the chocolate they use for their ice creams and cakes. For 8 months out of the year I also run a fantasy disc golf group with my buddies from back home in Ohio. And I guess I write a blog and release a new song every Thursday to share with you (whoever finds and reads this thing).
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As I sit here racking my brain for all of the other roles and responsibilities I take on currently in life, I’m choosing to stop it there. It’s a lot for me. It’s wild to write it out in this way and try to quantify how it’s even possible to keep all of these different projects afloat, yet somehow I’m managing. I’m not perfect in any of them, in fact I’d consider myself a white belt in almost all of these different parts of my life. I guess I just choose to do them, I want to, these are still all things that excite me, challenge me, and help me grow. I’m committed to it all, and over the years I’ve proven to myself that when I make a commitment, I believe in my ability to follow through. To be committed to the actions, and unattached to the results. If at anytime my heart speaks clearly that it’s time for one of these things to be set down, I will listen.
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All of this to say, my song this week that you can listen to above, go slow, is for me. I need the reminder. Slow is fast, play the long game, life time projects, family first, inner circles, friendships, remember to breathe, it’s not so serious.
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Thanks for reading,
xogb 🐝❤️🧙♂️