Settling in Saigon
The past year has been a whirlwind of decisions, planning, moving and arriving, first physically and finally now as I sit down to write this on a simmering Sunday afternoon here in Saigon, mentally.
Emotionally I think I’m nearly there, and I know this mainly because I have finally started to make use of having Roland (my precious Roland FP2 model Electric Piano) here and begun to wake up from the uninspired daze I have been wallowing in to set fingers to keys and ideas to music. I’m perhaps being too hard on myself there, because most of the other songwriters I know go through a dry spell here and there, even the more prolific ones. I don’t think I’ll ever fit into the prolific songwriting category, but I think that is a good thing for me, as each song unfolds in my head like a novel and the pages write themselves in their own sweet time once I’ve been brave enough to step up to the keys and give the story music to sing to.
![Claire Cameron near The Opera House, Saigon](https://www.clairecameron.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Tet-January-2014-081-e1461535780474-300x124.jpg)
Breakfasting at Hotel Continental on Tet Eve near The Saigon Opera House
As soon as I get the mood to write a song it feels like I’m coming back to myself, and the more the song takes shape the closer I get to that ever elusive true contentment, when everything in life slots into place and stops rushing.
Living here is noisy, busy, interesting, a bit overwhelming and sometimes beautiful. I’ll keep you posted on the first song from Saigon as it comes to me.