The Blog!

I get a lot of compliments about this market Weblog, I get a lot of questions about how I go about writing it, gathering inspiration, the music…what made me center each Weblog around a song…

This Weblog, according to messages, emails, and people stopping me, has a bit of a following even by people who are yet to even be customers. (Hey..it won’t bother me if the followers go ahead and order…lol…but, seriously, we are just happy to have your attention!)

I have stated, shared, and remembered much of myself and tied it to music.

Music has been a part of me for as long as I can remember. I had one set of grandparents who would often pack me up, when I was young, and take me on their weekend camping trips. Great times. Great memories. As soon as my grandfather would get home from work on Friday afternoons, my grandmother and I would have had everything packed, and ready to roll. They would pack my little bicycle, my vast Barbie collection, and off we would go. They would meet all of their camping friends, and the fun would begin. Campfire food, open spaces, usually kids that I would meet, freedom to run, freedom to ride, freedom to swim…but the common thread was always music. There would always be some sort of local, to that area, band that would perform. All kinds of music. But it was the early thread that now ties me to music festivals, camping, my love of live, outdoor music…

Growing up, as you know, in the West End, of my town, we were a free kind of bunch of kids. The West End encompassed an area with many separate neighborhoods, our school, our woods, our open roads. When we were young, we could bike around, stop at any house, hang out with older siblings, listen to their music, their garage band ramblings, we had local radio to play our favorite tunes, we had house parties (once high school hit) and we would haul very large speakers out onto the roofs of houses…music…it was needed and it was the backdrop for my growing up.

Bands, lyrics, shows…I started following the Grateful Dead…I snuck off to all kinds of concerts, shows, and events.

Some of my favorite people used to DJ at a local college radio station:) I still have confiscated albums with big large marker WUSO going across them…

Anyway…music speaks to me, I think in song, I have modeled two separate business ventures after my favorite groups….The Grateful Dead and The Rolling Stones. I put music into all that I do.

I still go off to festivals, attend live music shows, live my life as if I was in each song that I love.

When I became the full market manager, here, back in March, I also took on this Weblog. I needed to make it my own, so of course, I decided to incorporate the music vibe…

When I write each Weblog, I usually have had something happen or I have come across or my love of the community that I want to express. A lyric will always pop in my head to use. Once I am set on the topic and the lyric, I put that song on replay….over and over, while I write.

My hopes…In my music dreamland is that the songs and lyrics help you to build a playlist in your head. Or to hum them as you read. Or play them as you read or reach for them after you read.

Most of all, I hope that each Weblog takes you on a short musical escape that you follow until the end and then you see where I have taken you…

So, there you go…the Weblog and your market manager…

Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam