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Did I Do That?

We underestimate our achievements.

Problem is that most of what we do goes unrecorded and our memories aren’t accessible like a hard drive is.

I’m lucky, as some one who writes words, and songs, that there is often a record of the things I made. But then is there always the addictive attraction of moving onto the next thing, leaving little time to look back and reflect.

I accidentally came across some longer articles I had written in the past and, because of the passage of time, was able to read them as A Reader, and not as The Writer. I was honestly, if you’ll forgive me, quite impressed.

“Did I do that?”

Anyway, it’s easy to be hard on ourselves instead of taking pleasure in what we do or make.

So give yourself a pat on the back sometimes.

And here is something I also had chance to look back on with enjoyable pride. This time with the added pleasure that it was done with friends, Gary Carey and Murray Webster.

Recorded on the day we wrote it. Three minutes of fun fresh from the oven.