Hi everyone, I have been working on my new album. This will be my 10th! All the demos are done, all thirteen of them. Now it is time to record the final cuts. The album has an abstract theme. The theme is songwriting. The album opens with a songwriter talking to his muse, he is asking his muse to come back, since it has been a while since they sang songs together. Then the songwriter finds that the song-making is not coming along, and he feels down about it. But the songwriter finds that he can still make songs, after all, if he writes about what he knows: a song about his father; his mother; his being burglarized; running; and adventure sports as a kind of behavioral therapy. He also knows what it is like to be frustrated by some people. Additionally, he finds that he can still make songs that are imaginative fantasies. At the end of the album he reflects on it and thinks that a song is like an excursion, and this also seem apropos as a description/title for the whole album—the whole journey of writing the album has been a wordified musical excursion.