when i was on 3rd phase,i had to go to this stupid school called"harvest temple"....one day when i went there,i saw a sign for a "talent contest"....i wanted/couldn't resist the temptation to enter.....i asked an old 7 stepped foster brother if he wanted to enter it...he said yes....so we did one song even though we practiced 2....the song was "amazing grace" only he used "the house of the rising sun" music to it!
we won hands down!the preacher came out and had us do the song again!then everyone shouted encor encor....so we looked at each other and did one more.....ramblin' man!.....it would be my first paying gig....40.00.....when i got to the building,i made sure i got called on before any of the other phasers there could "report me"...
it turned out to be the smartest thing i ever did,because my 5th phase foster bro,said there were at least 4 coc's on my doing that!....
when i was a 7 stepper,i made a commitment to my newc's that i would come in and see how they were doing....i used to come in and sing to the phasers all the time! american pie,rocket man to name a few....at least once every few months,some phaser would request my singing to the group! i knew this was a way to feel good and get away from there in thier head....anyone who knew me back then,knows i used to do that!it was my way of showing the group that there was life after that place! i felt that that was very important to me to do that....hippie