Credit where credit is due - to Max Murray for taking on my website (mine is something like the 9th site of which he is webmaster) and giving it an "extreme makeover". He has put in dozens of hours over the last few weeks, and has taught me a thing or fourteen. Years ago, Phil Santoro, a salesman/consultant (with whom I bartered with piano lessons for his consultations) asked me a question which has stuck with me as a defining principle; "What personality do you want your business to have?". Mine, of course (that goes without saying, but the idea that businesses and institutions take on the personality of their owners/leaders has always impressed me, and I see it at work all the time). Specifically, I want what I do to be relational. My website now takes me further down this road, not a small part of which is this blog, which grew out of Max's advice. Thank you max.

It seems that my psychological response to being increasingly busy is to take on more (this is a subject in it's own right; time management and task focus are tough areas for me to grow, but I keep trying). I'm contemplating when and what to cut loose. For now though, I press on with the plate juggling. Have I even talked about the new radio show? I've had this vision for many years, but (somewhat uncharacteristically for me) have not talked about it much. There was little point, because all the pieces had to be in place (a large enough library of my own recordings, the means to produce the show, an appropriate station on which to begin...). Things that take a long time to come to fruition can seem to appear suddenly from "Out Of Nowhere" (I included that song in my new solo CD on purpose). Such it is with "Joe Holt's Notes on the Radio". It has caught people by surprise, including, to some extent, me.