Made it to Nashville! Landed at “The Songwriter’s House” – a gorgeous, very large house with 5+ bedrooms that rents (mostly) to songwriters who make their way to Nashville. The rooms are let by the day, week, or month and we’ve rented 2 rooms for the month of July while we look at places.

Which we’ve done a fair bit of. I think we’ve looked at all the places that are currently available and that match our criteria – (3+ BR, 2+ BA, within walking distance of the Five Points district, a big porch, and trees in the yard) and none of them *quite* feel like 100% of what we’re looking for.

I’m feeling inclined to compromise and get 75% so we can get moved in and I can get my studio unpacked and set up and get the ball rolling. And at the same time, I want to have a place that feels like “this is it”, which seems to be a recurring theme – that desire to have some internal feeling that guides me. In the absence of that feeling, I get almost overwhelmed with options, details and variations, all of which I tend to mentally extrapolate into a kind of ambiguous nullification. Maybe it’s my debate training, but I tend to see/get lost in all the pros and cons which sometimes are like comparing apples and oranges – all of which is to say I have a hard time making a decision.

I feel a little crowded in that I find it hard to write and/or rehearse when there are people around, which there almost always are in this current situation. Plus, I’ve been trying to catch up on a few weeks of pretty sever sleep deprivation. Night before last, I tried sleeping without the AC and just a fan, and wasn’t able to sleep at all throughout the night. My thought was to try to acclimate to the hot & humid TN weather a little, but maybe I’ll wait on that acclimation until I’m feeling a little more normal sleep-wise.

I keep having the songwriting impulse – words, phrases, beats or melodies that come to me when I start singing – and I’m eager to get a studio set up.

also, I’ve been dreaming a lot, and strangely, which I always find unrestful.

having said all that I’m going to sleep now.