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I am Retiring From my Day Job


                                 

I have decided to retire from my school teacher job in June 2021 and will be free to do some things in music that I have wanted to do for many years. Over the years, I have written many songs but have not had the opportunity to give much time preparing my voice  for recording them. This may be my hour. I am asking the Lord for the strength to perhaps record one final album of songs. 

My children are grown, and now I have grands. The giving of one's self never ends; however, I believe one must take the time for personal desires or life will pass us by. I am 62 years old now and have spent most of my life in ministry of some kind or giving to children. My post-retirement plans are not far from what I have done already except I will see if I can manage to do some rebuilding and shift some of the focus to myself.

Teaching was  a wonderful life spent. I do not regret the life but am grateful for the many lives I was able to impress. As a singer/teacher however; I spent so much time trying to recover from the damage done to my singing voice from teaching. Singing and teaching did not work for me. I was either a teacher or a singer, and since teaching was providing the money to support me and my family, teaching took priority. 

Now is the time where my perspective can change, as I can physically exercise for my health, and rebuild what has been loss. If possible, again I can sing with ease and full enjoyment again. I remember when I was a student in a master's class and I met a lovely older woman who joined the master's class. Her voice was enormous and the instructor told her publicly that she was too old for the MET. Her response was that she knew she was too old but that she enjoyed just singing at her friend's parties, and church. I remember thinking that I wonder what happened to her that she was not able to have a healed voice until she was older. Also, I wonder what she is doing now. She seemed content with herself. That's what I want, is to be content with what God has done in me and yet to pursue what God has for me. The Lord has never forsaken me!  

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