This is the first song on the album “I Carry On”. This album is a journey through the ups and downs of life and since the beginning of the year 2020, we have all been on a very similar journey. The year 2020 will forever be the year that each and every person on our entire planet had a similar struggle. I finished writing “2020 Vision” in January of 2020 while in Nashville the night before I recorded it. I had been very sick with a “new bug that was going around” as the doctor put it. I have no idea if it was COVID or not but I had never been so sick with pneumonia in all my life. It was the reason why I almost had to cancel my recording trip and did indeed have to cancel a trip to Austin the week before to perform.

They say hindsight is 20/20. Seeing the future is harder, of course. But, each one of us is looking forward to something. Working toward a goal, a plan, a dream. I spent decades working, saving and planning for the year 2020..the year I would be able to retire. As a single Mom, I wanted to be financially secure when I retired. And 2020 was the year I planned to cross that finish line.

Luckily for me, I shifted to music years ago and am doing what I love hopefully for life! I have been working harder than ever and was planning on slowing down in 2020 though to spend more time with my family, travelling, playing music, seeing my friends, reading all those books that have piled up. But as we are so often reminded — especially this year — life seldom goes according to plan.

Sometimes all we can do is put our head down and take it one step at a time. Until one day, when we see the light at the end of the tunnel. We reach that milestone. We start a new chapter. And if we’re lucky, we can look back on our journey with clarity, wisdom and then acceptance. And perhaps a bit of 20/20 hindsight. This song describes my dreams for 2020. What were yours?