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The song that I’ve posted today is one of my favorite and oldest songs. It is special to me because it was one of the three songs that I played at my first real performance-for people other than close friends. I used it in a creative writing class as my final project my senior year of high school. I don’t remember the specifics of the assignment. But, I know I wasn’t the only one to perform music. However, unlike the other songwriters, I played piano instead of guitar. So, my whole class followed me across campus to the PAC (Performing Arts Center) to hear my songs. I played on stage at a grand piano, and my classmates sat on stage with me. As I played and messed up on all three songs over and over, they heard me anyway. They saw past my lack of rhythm, poorly written lyrics, and the fact that I couldn’t even really play the piano. But, I meant every word I said. Surprisingly, they ignored all of the technical stuff. When I finished, they were encouraging and had nothing but kind things to say about those songs. It baffles me how willing people have been to support what I do, even though I still have so much to learn about the craft of songwriting. No matter how under qualified I feel sometimes to write music, I am reminded over and over again how honest work is more important than perfect work. Since my first performance of my song “Lullaby”, the name has been changed to “Lullaby Kaleidoscope”. The majority of the lyrics in the song have been rewritten, but it is still the same song to me. Every time I play it, I’ll remember sitting at a grand piano on stage with my classmates in an empty auditorium at Magnet High- where I found my voice as a songwriter and a person. Thank you to anyone I’ve ever played a song for who has made me feel like my music was worth writing.