Jeanette Baker – Vacation From My Mind
Welp folks…clearly 2023 didn’t start out the way I thought it was going to. I was hoping this would be my snapback year, after the previous pandemic pauses to life, and it may still be that, but the last 3+ months have definitely put me through the ringer. As always, the blog and sharing music isn’t far from my mind, but teaching is my full-time job, and it is a proper full-time job that takes up most of my time. My mind only has so much bandwith and when you have waves of familial emergencies, multiple heartbreaks (that recall Greek tragedy, for real) and all the healing that all of that entails, there’s just only so much that one can do. This track from Jeanette Baker has come to mind multiple times as everything has been going on in this particular moment. Seemed a fitting way to try to force myself to get back into the swing of sharing new music, which I hope to get back to on a weekly basis, while the posts of the past wait for me to finish up classes in a couple weeks and get into the first Summer in years where I’m not teaching and will actually be able to relax my mind so I can get back to doing what I really love doing…Writing and sharing music here on Melting Pot. Keep the faith, y’all…Onwards & Upwards.