How Do You Do it?!
Tamara Wellons
Authentic and Lovingly Open
Overdue London blog entry 1:
I left July 2 for London to sing at the Jazz Café. It was one of the many amazingly divine trips of my life. I traveled with a few extra days in my itinerary to allow time for writing and visiting Paris. I was scheduled for interviews, a show, and a recording session. Many thanks to Derek Sivers for introducing me to AirBnB, which is where I met an awesome new fan and my roomy even came to support me in Camden.
Before I left, I had been trying to contact Adele and Amy to let them know I’d be there. I wanted Amy to be my fan. I had recently been playing her Frank album for the last four months after I wore out Back to Black which became an inspiration for “Ah God”, a song on my new album. I was in London during the ITunes festival, and I just knew we’d cross paths. I will miss her so much. She was like an old friend. I cannot tell you how that album spoke for me many times.
It is hard to begin my blogging here and now after the trip happened a month ago, but I took notes. Please stay tuned for a blessed log of my adventure.
Here is a picture of me and my airbnb roomy in Camden’s Jazz Cafe. She represents my day 1.
"A Night in Camden"
Smells Like Teen Spirit – Tamara Wellons Music Video
Process
Wow. So much has been happening in the last month or so. Being in it feels like forever, but stepping out of it to look at everything really gives me perspective.
Last week I was in the studio with Federico Pena working out the final touches of a few tunes on my Songs for Janie album. It was a great week. The songs are really coming together as I envisioned them and better.
I have been challenged with the idea of PROCESS lately. I get anxious at times thinking “time” is going somewhere when there is an abundance of it just as there is money. 
The process of divorce, the process of healing, the process of recording, the process of parenting …you can get all the coaches in the world but the process will still have to take place. The pain and hurt will have to be dealt with, the schedule conflicts will push everything back, the ball will drop when there is no money….Life.
I say it all with a smile.
Videos, music, merchandise, tour, camps, and workshops are all in the pipes and I will be happy to share this process.
Picasso and New Inspiration: Wisdom :)
Yesterday, I traveled with one of my best friends to the Virginia Musuem of Fine Arts to “get away” and visited Picasso’s art. What was intended to be a short adventure turned into a life changing experience. The vibrations were so extraordinarily high in the place; I really feel changed and priviledged to have experienced it. I will attribute some of this connectedness to art to TM, which I recently started practicing and my Wisdom course. Well we arrived ten minutes before the musuem closed and were the only two in the musuem with all the guards and no pressure to hurry through. For a Friday night, they were so welcoming, I must say. We stayed for two hours. My friend says, “This only happens with you Tami.” Picasso, breaking all the rules, yet symbolizing peace, being a creator, all this inspired me. His art gave me a deep love, “a rumbling joy“.
Check it out The Picasso Exhibit for yourself if you are on the east coast http://www.vmfa.state.va.us/Exhibitions/At_The_Museum/At_the_Museum.aspx
Purpose
Watching the Oprah’s master class made me thing about my purpose. People often ask when I started singing. What made you want to sing? How many years? I give a similar answer to many singers, “I started singing as a young girl.” Usually, we start in church….and so on.
My life changed four years ago. I went through an awful shake up in a relatonship in which I was able to forgive and made it through that trench. For some reason, that made me feel like I had a new reason to sing. It felt like my first year singing. It was then I renewed my voice and began to take my life experience and not only add them to my song, but bring my new self to each song. Each month of singing since that time, felt brand new. I love it. There is never a dull moment in song I write and sing because my life is that song.
My purpose on this earth is to use my voice to inspire, touch and bring people peace and joy. I feel most comfortable opening my mouth and singing! It can be in the studio, in a club, before a congregation, with a band, acapella, in a circle, with a group, on a plane, in a car, for my children, ANY where. I feel comfortable speaking in front of people (mostly youth), teaching them new knowledge, and telling a story that I know very well. I am a teacher at heart. That’s why I decided to change my blog to The Classroom. The school building’s classroom was a little too square for me, so I had expanded it four years ago as well.
I am a firm believer that our lives are not meant to live alone, but your life is all your own (to live.) I put that in one of my songs, “Broken Wings.” For the last few years, I wrote a series of songs that happen to turn be pages of my life. “Out of this World” I wrote in hopes of… “Nobody Told Me”, I wrote a year and a half before my divorce. I recently learned how to take a moment of excitement and create music from it during the time it happened.
This year is the year for not holding back. I think this is the year for loving back. I think this is the year for easily opening arms to receive all the good for you. It is a year of courage and faith again and again.
It is the year for Songs for Janie, my new song that has yet to be written.
