wow huh... s'pose you've been wondering why have a road journal if yer not on the road. well, perhaps it was a pitstop, or maybe i just found my way onto a blue highway (you can google "blue highway" if yer don't know what I mean..hehe)..

anyway, point is, I never got off track... it's more a case of dodging some potholes upon on the road less travelled, as such. when you get a copy of my debut album 'chasing heaven catching hell', you'll probably get a better idea what i mean - in the booklet, i've given an explanation of the actuall album title...

mysterious?... hehe.. nah, just guess you'll just have to get a hold of a copy and go from there ;o)

as for my time away from music and general public visibility, hmmmm.. I'll apply appropriate self-disclosure here. I see no point nor need to explain.. heck, it's been my challenge and I've owned it (as they seem to say way to freakin much)... but perhaps that will unfold in tome, or in my further writings. you may find some insight into it in my songs.. but then again, perhaps it also pays to be mindfully aware just what you read into, let alone form those marvellous things called opinions on, without knowing the facts

so, bringing it back to the glorious, and ever important eternal 'now'... I'm ready to ramp things back on up again.. with a whole new focus, balance, reason and purpose that has been hard fought for and won. music is definitely, as may well be obvious, my passion.. but yet, as I have become most aware, there is so much more to my time and purpose. my return to studies, for instance, opened insights in such a way that it was almost like de-fogging a mirror... a two-way one at that

i pause here, to clarify.. and in order to do so, i shall paraphrase a very famous few words... " the more I learn, the more I realise that I know nothing"


anyway.. lets bring back some light and fluffy stuff here now, as I am aware that this post may come across as, erm... somewhat intense and deeeeeeeeeeeeeeep :p hehehe

actually, nay... I'll let Ralph Waldo Emmerson shine some light upon where I stand firmly grounded upon goodfeet.. and they shall keep on walking (nice one, Mr Franti)..


"What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within us out into the world, miracles happen"


and so, it's good to be back here with you.. you are, indeed, going to see (and hear) a lot more of me, as it my dearest hope that I do of you too.. soon, somewhere out there, on this beautiful endless horizon

posting this with love, and there is always more

peace and gratitude,

Petey :o)

Ah yeah, always nice to start afresh.. and never hurts to re-invent ones self either....
Nah.. no 'fro here..... yet..

So yep, with the new year I erased the past entries here in favour of a new page. It's a now thing.

How you all going out there? I truly must extend a W_A_R_M welcome to all my friends in the USA, as man, it's sure been cold huh? The big freeze... brrrrrrrr! Keep them home fires burnin bright eh?

To those down under, I hope you've had a great summer so far (not rubbing it in, Northern Hemisphere people! hehe).

Me, well, things have been a combo of interesting, challenging, inspiring and revolutionary. A nice combo, I must say. Times are tough, for a number of reasons, but I am learning much in the process, and am thankful to be given such opportunities to grow as a person.

A good mate of mine recently pointed out that I most certainly have no shortage of life experiences from which I can draw from to write about. Funny, but I don't really think I had ever really thought about it as such. Thanks to him, I have somewhat opened up the floodgates a tad.. and over the recent few months I have written fairly profusely.. creative flow has most definitely been a happenin' thang.

Actually, looking back on it, and also at present times, I don't rightly know where, let alone 'how', I'd be without my music and writing. Whether people 'get it' or not, it's whatever it is to them.. just as it is whatever it is to me. There is no absolute, and there is never anything to say that you have to justify your work as such. Writing that hit song or triple platinum album is not so much my focus nor desire.. I am purely just content to tinker away and be true to myself. I stand pretty steadfast by that, and although I have been swayed from time to time, I must admit that my inner compass has always been pretty attuned. The journey to here has been pretty eventful, and one heck of an adventure, and whilst strewn with some fairly hefty challenges, I would not trade it. Not for a thing.

That being said, there are some moments that truly test a person. Everyone has them.. or at least, I hope they do, for if not.. well, I actually can't imagine how it would be... but I personally would find it pretty boring. The ol' "day comes in, day goes out... clock on, clock off.. one day get the gold watch only to look back at a life that somehow got stuck on pause" type scenario. You can take all the photographs you like, but I am fairly sure that life is not meant to be still-life. I have long since learned that I am not alone in my approach to life.. blazing trails and pushing the envelope in various ways.. and also ways that differ from the way many others do. I don't really think it matters what exactly you are going after in this life, as long as it fills you with some kind of sense of purpose. And that purpose, is up to you, and you alone. Once you've found it, go for it.. chase it, live it, be it. The cool thing about it is that even if you might not necessarily have 'found' it yet.. the entire process of searching for it and exploring possibilities and seeking the adventure of it all, really is what it is all about.

Anyhow.. I don't want to keep you here in front of your computer screen for long.. let alone do I want to be here doing the same either. Kinda weird, these 'blog' things.. diary entries etc.. sometimes you never truly know if anyone reads them.. but, does that really matter anyhow? They either do, or they don't.. either way, I don't mind sharing a little. Yep, all in all, the whole public internet domain is a pretty strange concept.. not necessarily my gig.. but it does have it's pluses. I guess the more I have had to do with it, the less I want anything to do with it, and seem to bolt in the opposite direction. I do, however, like the fact that it can connect the world to each other... but in person is my style.

I like real life, I love feeling simplicity around me, I revel in nature and in seeing all the things that many people just never seem to  notice. Like feathers.. and the funny little bubbles n shapes that float across your eyes when you look up at the sky.. or, ahh man, there's heaps of things if you look. I have only really started to discover that I have actually always done this without realising it, and I truly have some very special people to thank for that discovery of self.. and for sharing the same eyes. I don't mind saying that I have also realised that a reasonable percentage of those people have either come from, or spent time in the Northwest of America... a truly wonderous and special region of this world, that this lad from the land down under has been blessed enough to have travelled as well. Hmmm.. then again, I also realise that many of these people that have shown me much of myself, are those who I have met upon my travels.. and are out there doing much the same themselves.

Well there yer go, pleasant ponderings to start my morning.  If you've read the above, thanks for sharing a little of your precious time.. I hope you got something of worth to you out of it! hehe.. whatever you're up to at your end, I hope that you feel alive.

take care of yourselves and each other, drop me a line somtime if you like, it's always lovely to hear how things are in your neck of the woods. With any amount of luck we'll bump into each other out there somewhere n share some goodtimes laughin, singin and playin and whatever else feels like time well spent!

peace+love+music.. let's all get together soon....

Petey