I saw Dave Wilcox in concert recently. Dave’s a singer/songwriter/storyteller that I really like. His “concerts” are like an evening-long journey into the highs and lows of the human heart. While he’s tuning his guitar he tells stories of his life and friends and lovers and the stories morph into songs and truth gets said and sung. I laugh. I cry. I’m moved. Nothing sounds preachy or fake, there’s no lecture. And from a technical point of view the songs and musicianship are astounding.

Things Dave said that got me thinking (I’ll need to paraphrase because I wasn’t taking notes, I was enjoying a show):

- A heart needs to break for us to know it really works.

- All our paths get shorter at the end, because we only have so many steps, only so much time…so we have to choose, we have to trust.

- What if we went into a relationship fearless? We could tell the truth because we weren’t afraid it would end. (Probably wouldn’t end if we told the truth…)

-It’s human nature to be dissatisfied. If, by some miracle, we all woke up tomorrow with the ability to jump into the air and just fly, unaided, to just soar, we’d be happy…for about a week. Then we’d start to think “I’m not so special, everyone can fly, I really can’t do anything, I’m just ordinary…”

- So let’s say you’re arguing with your lover and it’s taking her a really long time to realize you’re right…

- We have hearts that can hold a tremendous amount of fullness, which is great if there’s a tremendous amount of fullness in our lives, but it leaves us a lot of room for empty. This isn’t bad design, there’s a lot of fullness to find. Maybe it’s only the empty that would keep us looking to find the fullness?

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