After last week’s blog, my girlfriend emailed me and asked me what was up with the picture of Freddie Kruger playing a child’s trumphet. She asked me why I didn’t put a picture of me playing my music with the blog since that was what it was about.  I laughed it off until I got another email from my band mate Bill who asked what was up with the picture of Freddie. OK, OK….what’s the deal, don’t they see what I was attempting to show. Not being a fan of horror movies, I am not sure I have ever seen Freddie except in a few ads and what I was showing was how music is connected from the old to the new, old man to kids trumphet, get it……I guess they didn’t.

A few days later my daughter Kelsey called and was dealing with an old familiar subject of trying to fit in while being different and how difficult that was sometimes.  I listened and shared some of my stories and we both realized how it never really works out when we are not ourselves.  At one point I was even feeling sad like I gave this “disease” to my daughter that I have struggled with my whole life.  We hung up and a few minutes later I received a text message from her that said  “ ‘Why are we trying so hard to fit in, when we’re born to stand out.’…Oliver James….haha so true about you and I.”  It hit me like a ton of bricks…. this is what I had to write about this week. Now I know what Marie-Pierre was talking about.  I was writing about our CD release party and was not even putting myself out there, I was not standing out.  I have done so much work with this and have come so far and yet here is my chance to stand up and be seen and I don’t.  So today I am making a choice to stand up and stand out, just like I was born to do.

In the last 10 years I made a choice to start living conciously and to embrace the different parts of me that I was born to be.  I am a musician and a Life Coach and I now introduce myself that way to people, not my default of Real Estate Broker. I change my life daily and help people create hope in their lives by creating hope in mine.  I am a highly creative, sensitive, caring and compassionate man who loves to help people make a difference in their lives and is willing to be different and to talk about it.  I am part good ‘ol boy, part liberal, part rock and roll guitar player, part meat eating vegetarian, part tough guy, part healer, part lover and part fighter……I have it all and that’s who I am……I am a unique mix of  Texan that is in a relationship with a liberal artist from France. I have friends in every walk of life. So that is where I fit in…..right where I am suppose to…….I am William Stanhope Cutherell…..or as Stan Goss says…..The Rock of Hope……..creating hope everyday by loving myself and standing out.