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My Perfect Little Chair

It was on my 21st birthday that I decided to busk. Perhaps this was the internal gift to myself - a key to unlock an actualised life, and the opportunity to at last share my gift with the world. I'm utterly thrilled by the songs I've composed. Yet, it is never enough to bask in solitary enjoyment of these tunes. Sure, it is richly satisfying to flirt with my muse in an evening piano session. But something within yearned for an outward expression - to share what my soul has conjured, with hopes to inspire others to go forth and create something, for the joy that it brings. I pictured myself on the Queenstown waterfront with my keyboard, gently swaying in my own sounds and the cool breeze that has brushed against the magnificent mountain-scape. I pictured my music swirling around like ribbons in the air, cuddling the new arrivals of Queenstown, inviting them into beauty and bliss. It was this vision that propelled me to take action upon the idea to busk. But like anything, th