It's in the Air? And it's not Love!

It's funny, in a way, how life works; I should not be here. The old saying goes 'children (or women, or those who are inferior to those in a place of power that presents itself as a placebo) should be seen and not heard', but this is false, for I should be neither heard nor seen.

I should not be here, but I am, and it's funny because not only am I not a member of any of the three Limerick Records bands, but I am also being forced to blog against my will.

C'est la vive.

My name is Paige, and sometimes I like to pretend I'm a lion tamer; on a more frequent basis, I sell the merchandise for Limerick Records. As we speak, I am being torn away from my NaNoWriMo, and I'm frivolously using words here instead of on that. That does not, however, mean I will be any less eloquent (or egotistical).

I'm here to talk about change.

Autumn is on my face and lips and breath and in my hair and words; summer is in my soul. Only a few weeks (days? months? lifetimes?) it was summer, when the world was warm and children blissfully wished that week after week it would never ever leave them, but in their hearts they knew that it was inevitable. Fall is just as much a part of our lives as blinking is, as breathing is, and laughing is, as being is, and 'fall' in this sentence is a synonym for 'change'

Change is a constant reminder that nothing is constant.

We all change, in our bodies and in our heads. As we age, we grow, and as we grow, we mature. Our looks change, our vocabularies change, our occupations change, our emotions change. Our philosophies change.

When I was young(er), I was nowhere near the person that I am today. The person that I am today is nowhere near the person that I will be ten years from now, or even ten hours from now. A person learns to accept change, be it the deterioration of the body or the strengthening of a relationship or the passing from long, lovely summer into crisp fall into the stillness that winter brings.

Also, and the main reason that I bring up change, the music industry changes. And when I say 'the music industry', I mean 'your music industry', because that's really what it's all about. If all this time and effort and love are not being poured into something tangible for you, why bother? Why bother adapting to what you want and you need and you find solace in?

Only a short while after Limerick Records announced its plans to be completely digital and completely cost optional, Radiohead proceeded to do the same with its latest LP 'In Rainbows'; if this ebb and flow of listening to what the people want isn't change, I don't know what is.

In conclusion, I wish that I could have just used all 500 of these past words on my novel, and it's almost winter. Damn.

<3 Paige