honea byrne

The week long assignment of deprivation from  social media and internet movies is over. It was very necessary, and is synonymous with something I learned long ago. "Are you going to live watching someone else's dream or live your own?" Nineteen years ago, I went through the steps of The Artist Way. Currently, as of May 13, 2021, I am on the fifth week of The Artist Way. Things have changed since the first time I did the Artist Way, way back in 2002; I didn't have any books on Amazon Kindle. I didn't have this blog, that has over a 150,000 views. I didn't go to openmics to perform. I didn't know how to play a musical instrument. I didn't have a college degree. I didn't have a career of any kind.  Applying the tools that I learned in The Artist Way laid the foundation for me to do all those things, and more. In my creative process the Artist Way has helped me say more Yeses and say less Nos. I have also learned I never know what experiences will give...

  Tuesday Night before Christmas 2020   You play bad enough, stay gone awhile, come back able to work around some basic chords people notice you, well, notice me. Yea you probably have more sense than to come back to a place to play after you sucked so bad that everyone left. The jam tonight, should be the standard thing. Only me, and a couple musicians, that I’ve seen here before, and I’ve seen em in the openmic loop in Ocean Springs. The open mic loop in Ocean Springs is The Julep Room, The Field, and The Grocery. The Grocery hasn’t opened back up sense Covid started.   Well, I finally got over wearing ‘…sunglasses at night.’ Corey Hart reference. I’d wear glasses, so that I couldn’t see the crowd. On most openmic stages, the lighting is dim. Then again, I do still have the capacity for Majickal thinking: If I don’t wear the glasses someone, and or many, in the audience, might steal my soul by piercing my windows to the soul-Naw just joking. Done this assor...

Four Saturdays Before Christmas  It’s not every day that I have an opportunity to get a paid gig. Therefore, I had to be at my best. I practiced about an hour a day for two weeks on whatever Christmas jams I could find on the internet. Even did my standard, of recording myself, to know exactly what I sounded like. Sonny, the guy who gave me the gig, told me to play the same five songs over and over again. How would I be able to pull that off for four hours. Sonny told me “This is not going to be like it was when you did the comic book sale at the store last year. When only a few people show up. There could very well be a crowd of fifty to a hundred.” I can’t afford to mess this up. It can’t be like those nights, more then I’d like to admit, when I play a set and I’m the only one left in the bar.   The place was big. It used to be a Food World Super Store. There were ten rows stacked full of comic books in two hundred and fifty per box. They also had toys, costumes for cos...

In loving memory of Fred Holmes (September 5, 1948-November 4, 2016). #electionnight #Trump #PresidentofUnitedStates   I do not own the rights to Batman. DC comics does.  When I think of it now, when I think about it after it happened, and when I think about it while it was happening, it reminds me of the Batman R.I.P . Batman was tortured, lost his mind, unable to fight insurmountable odds until he mumbled a phrase that was buried in his subconscious mind. The Batman said “Zur-en-arrh.” Then he was unstoppable.  Add caption                     It’s not so illogical that something inside of self can be brought out by a word or an action. There was a moment of strength, confidence, when I did something, I didn’t think I could do. I am not sure whether it was by self-will, or some manifestation of thought, that gave me the strength to meet the challenge in trying times. As we...

  interference (C) 2020 #openmic #synergynights I keep sitting in the front because I'm closest to the stage. Also I don't see the crowd behind me.  So damn nervous. I learned though, I have to keep going. Have to keep doing this because this is what I do. I perform my works because I have to keep the dream alive.  I get up there. Maranda J. introduces me. And before I even get a word out someone from the crowd yells, "Get him off the stage." Damn. Already. Good thing I have been reciting this piece for days. Eventually, it will be like second nature. I do the first stanza, and notice all the happy couples. Damn, maybe I should quit this. It's stopping my chances of living that real good life. Big house, picket fences, kids playing in the yard. Who am I kidding? That dream expired long ago-there i go again. Need to start not being soh pessimistic. It'll come around-always does traveling at the 'Speed of Thought.'  I have to use the voice inside. That v...

 September 23, 2017 the stars aligned in a particular way. It made reference to a biblical prophecy. Specifically, the first  two verses of  Revelation 12 .  Wiki article about it   The passage in the  Book of Revelation   12:1 - 3  describes "a woman clothed with sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth." ( NIV ). [2]   Thus, I was inspired to write, "There's A New Star Coming." I performed it at SynergyNights Openmic at The Med in Ridgeland Mississippi.   When I write a piece like this I prefer to have meaning and depth. I like to create universal hooks (things everyone can relate).  Perform ance link ] In the following sentences I address some thoughts behind the lines of this piece.  Is this the end? Once I heard someone say, 'One day I stopped running from hell. But hell kept going.' Many thought I was talking about...

Way back in the Summer of 2009, when the heat index was around a hundred and ten degrees, I would jog seven miles, from Clarksdale to Hopson Plantation.  I kept in mind, that if I was to pass out from heat exhaustion, or suffer a heat stroke, people probably would not find me for days. There were countless times, when I had to dig for the endurance and determination to make it.  There was a time, with aid of #TonyRobbins #GetTheEdge Course, when  I had come to the point where I had to take an action to immediately to do what I wanted to do. I chose to be a musician. Yet there was one problem I had little guitar skills. I was frightened to go up on that Ground Zero stage and perform. Even worse I had really negative thoughts plaguing me. It made the stage fright that had not even happened worse. I would think to myself such self-destructive things like, "What would they say? They would criticize me. I could never go out again with the horrible criticism. People are going t...