Blogging can be harmful for your health

I just had an interesting email exchange, due to a post I made on a public forum about what I honestly felt about a band's performance that I had booked. It's now led to a broken relationship, which will likely never be mended. That makes me quite sad, but I guess it's OK. I've learned a pretty valuable lesson. The farther I take this Fusion Shows thing, the more I have to realize that the walls have ears. This will be twice that my "big mouth" will have burned a bridge.

However, at the same time, I had a really positive day. I interviewed with a local high school student about what our shows mean to our community, and I had a local girl "tag" me in a Facebook note, with an amazingly sweet paragraph about how much our shows have meant to her being the woman she is today. Every time I feel like my life is pointless, and some totally slick business dude who's "got it all figured out" on the outside gets me down, someone like Sharon Korzek comes along and reminds me about what the hell I'm doing, and why I'm doing it.

So let it be known. I don't give a flying shit how life is "supposed to work". I don't care about "the way it is". I've chosen the path less traveled, and while I have to model it after other business, Irv and I are different at Fusion Shows. We genuinely care about our communities. We want kids to want to stay in Livingston County, in Lansing, because there ARE things to do.

I refuse to let people drag me into their miserable little holes. I love my life, I love what I do. I'm pretty broke, I don't have insurance, I'm not in great shape. But I'm doing something that I love, every day. It's not for everyone. In fact, what I do isn't really for anyone, but it's important that young people understand, through all the gloom and doom about the economy, you can do whatever it is that you want.

I'm happily married, happily self-employed, and on a comfortable couch, under a warm blanket, in a nice apartment, under a perfectly functional roof, and about to each some pretty tasty chips and salsa. So there you go!