Happy new year! - Emily Maguire

It’s been six full-on days of clearing, dumping and packing. It’s amazing how much stuff a one-bedroom flat can hold. I can’t believe we arrived 11 years ago with nothing but 2 guitars, a bag of CDs and the clothes on our backs. Now I want to travel light again.

2018 has been an incredible year of highs and lows. I’ve enjoyed the gigs we’ve done so much. I didn’t enjoy so much having pneumonia and dealing with Australian Immigration. But now we’re leaving for Australia in a few weeks’ time with no idea of what’s coming next. It makes me think of my favourite poem (see below).

Thanks to you all for your amazing support of my music. I will be writing songs again in my yurt and look forward to playing them to you when we next meet.

Wishing you all a very happy new year.

I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I I’m going.

And I have trained myself to love it.

Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight,

That we force our wings to unravel and at last begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to.

But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings.

You may not know where you’re going,

But you know that so long as you spread your wings,

the winds will carry you.

(C. Joybell C.)