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Tamara Wellons
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“The Dream is the Truth”
My moma says I was five years old when I sleepwalked to my Aunt Corrine and Uncle Teachey’s house next door. I have flashes of that dream walk, like when I knocked on the door and she put me to bed. My mom added deadbolt locks to our door because of it. I now specialize in changing the locks. 
Ten years later, Aunt Corrine started walking over to our house sometimes 10 times a day! She called her sister’s name- my Grandma Ellen and other times she’d be wearing her slip outside her dress. She had Alzheimer’s, but could still teach me to play a little piano melody.
In her backyard was a pear tree, apple tree and peach tree. One day she was just standing around the peach tree humming a song, “The Tennessee Waltz” and then started prancing around to show me how it was danced. I said to myself, “Now how could she remember all that but didn’t know who I was?!”
Music. It’s the very thing that’s embedded in our memories sometimes forever, when one can’t even remember their own name. How powerful is that. Aunt Corrine could sing church hymns back and forth and play them on her organ when she could barely remember if she had eaten that day.
Music. It is taken for granted at times. Sometimes we don’t even realize how much it gets us over.
Music. I am committed to creating music that will impact people in a powerful way for the good of everything.
Be a part of this with me.
“The dream is the truth.”- Zora Neale Hurston
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/93703986/recording-songs-for-janie
Calendar 2010!
The single most beautiful thing I love about the New Year is my new calendar. It is the most refreshing thing about the beginning of the year for me. I spend lots of time in December searching for the right calendar each year. In 2008, I was given a gift of the Gustav Klimt calendar. I will never forget, it gave me so much inspiration. Last year, I bought the Self-Realization Yogananda calendar which was written in Spanish. Didn’t matter that I didn’t speak or read Spanish. It was the photos I needed. Last spring, a colleague saw that he had the same calendar and offered me his calendar in English, so I could read the quotes, which for him most important.
This year, I went for a more functional calendar. It was all about the inspiration last year and the year before that. This year is more about the plan. It’s about the “sticking” to the plan, or at least having one to stick to. Discipline, obedience, and preparedness: that’s what I’m going for.
Already on my calendar, I have a website launch party, yoga and exercise plan, children’s activities, writing times, and recording schedules. But all that doesn’t matter if I don’t stick to it.
I created my binder for my new musical project. It is full of organization, but the contents are bare. Mostly because I have lyrics in three different places, instrumentals and notes here and there. As I fill its pages, I will use this blog to update you on the progress.
Well, I have a lot planned this year. We know how plans go. They sometimes have a way of working you, but I will do my best to not make a liar out of my new calendar.
2009 Ending
Hello Fans, Family and Friends!
Welcome to my new site! I am so thankful to be doing what I love and that is creating music and sharing it with you. I hope that in some way you are inspired to do what you love as well. God Bless my awesome family near and far for prayers and support. I am well in this musical journey and there is no heading back.
This past year I had wonderful opportunities come my way- performing in London, traveling to other parts of the US to perform and recording with super talented producers. This coming year I plan to join some of my colleagues to perform in cities /states I haven’t hit yet- NC, Atlanta, LA, Chicago, and Philly.
Life Is
Life is….
being at home. Walking in circles as I figure where to start cleaning. Sitting in front of the TV to watch WETA with my children. Checking emails. Sending messages. Practicing a new song. Planning a lesson good enough so that the children will “get it”.Waiting for a phone call back from a promoter. Waiting for that check. Getting a babysitter. Rehearsing. Laughing at my corny sisters. Challenging myself and my family to lose weight. Life is the title of my new album.
Photoshoot and Poop
I had a photo shoot today for my new album, press and promotional material. I was so excited that I couldn’t sleep. At least, I think thats why I couldn’t sleep. Morning still came quick. As a matter of fact, since my husband had already gotten up with my 3 year old daughter Julia after she had an “ac-shident” at 3:30AM, he did not feel like getting up with our smart and loud (even early in the morning) son Daniel. It was kinda late- 7:15AM, that’s what time the bus comes.
Anyway, I got up with him to get him started for school (bag lunch, folder check, breakfast, uniform, milk money, etc). I was going to take him to school even though I needed to prepare for my photo shoot.
Well, I went into my whiny one year old’s room to check on her and discovered her throwing balls of defecation out of the crib. Yes. She had removed her own diaper. I yelled to Patrick (forget that my 3 year old is sleeping), I need your help!!!
“You can either take Daniel to school or take care of this.”
… And so he took Daniel to school. I gathered tossed feces inside and out of the crib, under her foot, and just prayed that she had not tried to eat it. She hadn’t as far as I could tell from the smell of her breath. At least it was of a tougher constistency, that makes the mess much easier to clean up. Excuse me- that’s parent talk.
One good thing about this. It is time to start potty training her. Yay.
The photo shoot was great! Monique with Fresh Start Day Spa did the styling, make-up, pedicure, manicure, and body wrap….everything. She is great. I wore clothing from Rakiyt Zakari and jewerly from VSW.com and my dear cousin Mickey White did the photographs.
I felt good about everything.
NOW…..Patrick had to work at 6:30PM and had been at home all day with the kids. He didn’t have time to sleep and God knows he can’t do anything else, like go to the grocery store with the kids… SO after the photo shoot, I had to go to Aldi’s (my new favorite grocery store- I will never shop for groceries anywhere else unless its a wholesale place). I didn’t have much time, Patrick needed to get some rest before work. I went to Aldi’s in full make-up. It wasn’t the first time I had gone out after a photo shoot….but to the grocery store to get milk, juice, and diapers?
Umph…..
I just smiled and waved to the little kids who were pointing at me. I just breezed through the aisles with my head in the air as if this was a normal thing for me. How fun.
I rushed home to relieve Patrick, start dinner, and straighten up a little, but I was so tired I just laid down to get a ten-minute nap. It didn’t go so well. Trinity ended up on the kitchen table and Julia had climbed on a chair to have a goldfish snack-attack. She shared though.
I sat them up for dinner, and rushed downstairs to send off an email to my band about set lists, gigs, and rehearsals dates and came back up to have a little dinner time with my children. As they finished their salad, potatoes, chicken and veggies, my baby Trinity (the one year old) threw up the zesty mix of juice and dinner!
I had to clean that up in the middle of tossing down my dinner, needless to say I lost my appetite. However, right now, I do have the appetite for some leftover cherry pie and ice cream. Although I am on a mission to lose 30 pounds. So cherry pie won’t work for me.
I am a little irritated now because I am up and ready to work….and my kids won’t sleep.
AND I still have my make-up on!
If I eat the cherry pie and ice cream- I will just run 2 extra miles tomorrow morning…..
What you think?
