Hi

I have recently moved from Wellington to Christchurch and live in Addington.

I have a day job as a commercial manager for a leasing firm but by night I am a poet, musician and tv and film composer. I have 9 songs licensed in Hollywood and my music has been up against James Blunt and David Grey for tv and film. So I'm doing ok at it.

What I'm about is encouraging and inspiring people through my creativity. If I can inspire someone to feel better about themselves and to contribute something positive to the world then THAT is success.

I'm keen to meet people how care, people who love and who truly live. People who have read Celestine Prophecy or basked in sunsets wonderingly and particularly people who want to be inspired.

www.myspace.com/glynmaclean
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=glynmaclean

I have

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANZAC_Day

Well

Strange days on planet earth

I took a chance and approached the Royal New Zealand Returned Services Association offering my tune ANZAC TRIBUTE as a donation to the organisation

They liked the tune

So they have accepted my donation and the tune will be used to raise money for RSA in NZ and to promote ANZAC services this ANZAC DAY which is 25 April

www.txttunes.com have agreed to sell the tune through their web site with all proceeds to go to RSA in NZ

I'm pretty excited about this as it's enabling me to do something good, something values orientated with my music. It has both national and international ramifications and will once again put me on the national map as a leading NZ composer.

Ironically, I keep on achieving these little bursts of temporary fame, not because I want to bask in recognition, althought that's nice, but because I want to leave a legacy for my son that demonstrated "here is a man worth remembering".

We can all take our talent and share it with those around us. Perhaps we need to be less judgement of ourselves and more capable of just sharing. Frankly, I don't make a dime from any of this. I don't want to. I am storing my riches in heaven. And I am enjoying the richness of giving.

It's all about participating with people, about discovering values together and imbuing them back into our lives and memories. LEST WE FORGET.

We take too easily the price that our forefathers laid down in their lives. We need to discipline ourselves to remember the cost of freedom. Men and women who sacrificed daily loving and living to enable freedom. We need to cheerish that freedom and work at conversations that empower us to reject war, unless it is the very last option; not the first solution.

However, RSA uses this is really up to them. While they only have the tune non exclusively, I do intend for them to leverage the use of the tune entirely for their own purposes.

There might be opportunity for me to enter the tune into a cultural exchange programme with Turkey and that would be kewl.

I like projects like this. I like contributing something to humanity. I am proud to be a New Zealander and proud to be someone who genuinely cares about humanity. I may have many fallibilities, but at heart, I have a depth of care for others. So I fundamentally need to be a giving person.

That's why I'm thankful for this opportunity.