Hi there! Thanks for visiting my space, make yourself at home. Pour yourself a drink and relax. For more info about me you can always visit my website at johnlabelle.com. And if you're ever in Montreal and want to hear some great classic jazz standards, just drop by Modavie in Old Montreal and say hi. I'm there every Thursday and Friday and the last Saturday of every month. We're still singing and writing and looking for new ideas.
John
Have you ever been stumped in your creativity? Sir Philip Sidney has the answer in his poem:
Astrophel and Stella: Sonnet 1
1 Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show, That she dear she might take some pleasure of my pain, Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know, Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace obtain, I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe: Studying inventions fine, her wits to entertain, Oft turning others’ leaves, to see if thence would flow Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sunburned brain. But words came halting forth, wanting Invention’s stay; Invention, Nature’s child, fled stepdame study’s blows; And others’ feet still seemed but strangers in my way. Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: "Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write." --(1582)
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