Jay's CSUN Graduation

I've been bursting with pride over my son graduating from California State University Northridge last week with a Bachelor of Arts in Music Industry Studies. He had to overcome many obstacles along the way and follow through right until the end.


As a trombone player in high school, Jay always loved music and distinguished himself as someone always devoted to the music program, winning multiple awards, but to become a Music major in college, he had to move beyond the bass clef. He had to learn how to read the melody line, and how to combine chords with the melody and bass clef into arrangements. He had to learn to play the piano, starting with the basics, progressing through classics and, just for fun, moving onto jazz.

He learned about all types of music, studying classical, jazz, rock, soul, world music and more. He branched into the music industry, attending recording sessions for "The Simpsons" and playing movie music under the direction of Hollywood's own David Newman.




Jay overcame obstacles and now stands as a college graduate. Today, I happened upon something I wrote in a previous blog, and it hit me that it applies to Jay's graduation as much as to world conditions.


It's always amazing to me that when aboard a giant airplane it not only gets off the ground but flies, or that a hundred thousand ton cruise ship floats like a Dixie cup.

That's why instinctively I can accept that despite all the illogical stuff happening politically and economically right now, we don't HAVE TO sink. We do, however, become what we think about, and our reality eventually reflects our innermost thoughts. Banish fear, and accept the good that God wants for each of us as distinct individuals right now, in the present moment, which is the only time in which we ever live. We are spiritual beings enjoying (or not enjoying) a human experience, rather than the other way around.


In a CD set I received for Father's Day last year, Wayne Dyer quoted Thomas Troward who said, “The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things, but by contemplating the floating of things which floated naturally, and then intelligently asking why they did so."

"The Wright brothers didn’t contemplate the staying on the ground of things. Alexander Graham Bell didn’t contemplate the noncommunication of things. Thomas Edison didn’t contemplate the darkness of things. In order to float an idea into your reality, you must be willing to do a somersault into the unconceivable and land on your feet, contemplating what you want instead of what you don’t have."~ Wayne Dyer, 21st Century Spiritual Teacher from The Power of Intention