After years of writing music but being hesitant to share it, last week I decided to go into a recording studio for the first time and record one of my songs.  I hope you like it

Reality And Dreams

Yesterday I went back into the studio to record another song.  After a lot of back and forth over which song to do next, I chose I song called Where You Can Go.  If you like it, please share.

Where You Can Go

Sway

Ain't It Strange

Back in May, one of my favorite musicians (Chris Cornell) committed suicide. It affected me more than I would’ve ever expected it to. Not because I knew him personally, because obviously I didn’t. It was partially because I’ve been listening to his music for the majority of my life and he really seemed like a good, genuine down to earth person, but it was also because it opened my eyes to the fact that anybody can fall to depression. Often it seems that the people who take their own life are the ones who you would least expect to. The ones that seem to have it all together. This is not always the case of course, but clearly depression doesn’t care about how much money you have or how successful you are. It can affect anybody. It seems these days that many of the people I know have lost somebody to suicide whether it be an acquaintance, a friend or a family member. It’s a very sad fact. Some people say that suicide is selfish. I used to agree with that, but I don't anymore. I think for a person to be so deeply saddened and feeling so hopeless to not only think about ending their own life, but to actually go through with it, clearly they are not in a state of mind to consider how their actions may affect the people who love them, but that's just my opinion of course. It’s something that most of us will never understand because to fully understand what they are going through, you have to live it and that is something that I hope none of us ever have to experience. No, this song is not about Chris Cornell, but the way he died definitely moved me to write about this topic. Not so much about suicide itself, but how we all need to show compassion towards each other because we are all fighting our own internal battles, and things usually aren’t as they seem on the surface. You just never know what the person next to you is going through and a little love and empathy goes a long way. If you are someone who is struggling with depression, please seek help either professionally or through your support group of friends and family. You just never know how one conversation with the right person might change everything.

I hope you enjoy the song. As always, please feel free to share and subscribe to my SoundCloud and/or YouTube page. Big shout out to Jeff Muller for bringing my music to life!

Dion Jenkins