🔗📼🎵I keep playing this - or at least different versions of it - but this one mainly.
Why❓
Because it bloody is - 🔗📼 It’s Raining - AGAIN
// @jsonbecker … did not have you down as a ‘Tree/Wilson’ fan - but that track is sooo good. Hell - the whole album for that matter. I also agree that …
It’s incredible what a good teacher can help you with.
… but maybe as a child of not one - but two - teachers provides a bias?
ANYWHO
When Wilson moved into solo work - he had Guthrie Govan as his lead guitar - now THAT is some playing - and he is known for lessons and tips …
Filing In One of Two Buckets:
‘New News’ OR ‘Must Get Out From Under My Rock More’
A video podcast from Private Eye.
You’ve probably already seen the video - or at least a still from it - but I just wanted to comment on the 🎵musical part - 🔗📼 just so good
My three words for 2026 are 🖇️ Engage - Enable - Excite. But there’s a catch. Underpinning all of that is a requirement to both stop and start. Stop what’s bad for you, what isn’t working, what’s draining you. And start what’s good for you, change things up, do something different when something clearly isn’t landing.
That’s where the tension lives. One voice says when things aren’t working, change the game. Do something different. Move it up. Stagnation demands disruption. You’ve got agency, the ability to reframe, introduce new variables, step outside the rules you’ve been playing by. This voice won’t accept circumstance as fixed.
The other voice says if things aren’t working, they’ll persist anyway. Be patient. All will be well. Not wishful thinking, but confidence in process. The recognition that what’s broken right now is already being worked on by time and circumstances you can’t control yet. Patience here isn’t inaction. It’s understanding that some shifts simply require waiting.
Both are right. And so - by definition - both are wrong and the decision is made by applying the real skill of ‘sensing’. Very useful!
When does the system actually need you to disrupt it, and when is your job to hold steady whilst deeper shifts take hold? Get that distinction wrong and you either exhaust yourself with constant pivoting or you surrender to inertia. Sometimes both.
For me this is not theoretical. It’s the fork in the road. It’s not about the new year - it’s about life that continues to get harder and harder.
This all came to mind this afternoon when this popped up on my phone.
Song For The Post
I’ve been doing this every year since 2019 - which means tonight is my 8th rodeo.
Previous Years
📅 2019 - Uncertain | Less | Different
📅 2020 - Believe | Move | Ascend
📅 2021 - Transform | Transition | Transcend
📅 2022 - Clear | Closer | Choice
📅 2023 - Focus | Flexible | Fabulous
📅 2024 - Transform | Transition | Transcend (sic - see 2021)
📅 2025 - Intentional | Inspired | Impactful
Everything can change on a new years day
Everything can change on a new years day
Everything can change on a new years day
And everything changed on a New Year’s Day
💬 Rage Against The Machine