Each Sunday, I share something that made me grateful in the past week. This week’s gratitude comes from pride in a family member.
Last Sunday after returning home from church, I was eating lunch when I received a text from my nephew, Tristan, now living in Boston, Massachusetts, miles away from me here in Sheridan, Wyoming. Tristan had just released an album, Storyline, and he included a link. When I clicked on it, I was taken to a page where the album can be played. To my surprise, I learned that it’s available from Amazon Music and other services.
I asked my Amazon smart speaker to play it and what I heard blew me away. Storyline features Tristan’s original compositions with vocals, guitar, and other stringed instruments. Most of the pieces are slow and reflective. Some are just instrumentals.
I knew Tristan played the guitar and thought he used a synthesizer to mimic other instruments and software to record tracks for each instrument and mix everything together. But he told me he recorded this last year with other singers and instrumentalists in Fort Collins, Colorado, before moving to Boston. I hope he can find other musicians in Boston to help him create more albums. He shows a lot of promise.
When I was Tristan’s age, I wanted to be a recording artist. But feeling I needed a more stable career, I chose to become a registered music therapist. Of course, this was back in the 19802s when it may not have even been possible to record one’s own albums. Now, just as authors can self-publish their own books on a variety of platforms, musicians can record their own albums and make them available through a variety of music services. Isn’t that amazing? I’m thankful Tristan had the courage to follow his dream, and I couldn’t be prouder.
I encourage you to check out Storyline by Tristan Johnson wherever you get your music. Alternatively, you can click below to hear the album. Happy listening!
What were you thankful for this past week? You can share in the comments or on your blog with a link to this post. Thank you for reading. Always be grateful!
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by Two Pentacles Publishing
New! Living Vicariously in Wyoming: Stories
Copyright 2025 by Abbie Johnson Taylor
Published independently with the help of DLD Books.
Image Description written by Leonore Dvorkin of DLD Books.
As defined in the first story, living vicariously means living your life through someone else’s. You’re invited to live vicariously through the lives of the people in these stories. There’s the lawyer who catches his wife in the act with a nun. A college student identifies with a character in a play. A young woman loses her mother and finds her father. And a high school student’s prudish English teacher strenuously objects to a single word in her paper.
In Wyoming, as in any other state, people fall in love, and sometimes relationships are shattered. Accidents, domestic violence, prejudice, and crimes all occur. Lives are torn apart, and people are reunited. Ordinary people deal with everyday and not–so–everyday situations.
The 25 stories in this collection, most of which are set in Wyoming, are about how the various characters resolve their conflicts—or not.
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