You guys touched me. Seeing all your comments flowing our way like true rivers gushing out of your hearts… I knew it wasn’t any easier for you than for me and each of your words had to pass by rocks and dams before they could freely float and irrigate each and everyone who read them, filling us with hope, a sense of community and opening our eyes to more than ourselves.

First I want to thank Hachi, Masha, Danielle, Samantha, Elizabeth, Irene, Dennis for leaving comments on this blog on myspace and blogger page…it means a lot to me and I surely hope many more will follow you and share with our beautiful family their own impressions/feelings/thoughts and experiences.

I truly want to share with you what I learn, what I see, what I feel and learn from you as well, that’s why I invite you to leave comments and share… this is not a monologue… my deepest desire is for this diary to be a mutual sharing.

Talking of sharing… let me lead the way by being honest about what happened in the past week.

Hey hi!

Did you miss me as much as I missed you?  I have to admit the summer went by at such a fast pace!!!! I look back and I say “what? Already 2 months that I didn’t post a blog!?!”  Time is a weird element.  I feel like 2 years of events happened in the last two months and, at the same time, I feel like July 14th was yesterday… oh well;)  I realized how much I missed writing this blog to connect with you as I am writing it right now!

It’s your time to help this blog go further!

Alright my friends!

This is the last blog of the summer as I’ll take a little step back to think and evaluate the reasons and ways surrounding this diary.  I have the chance to share with you every week.  In fact, Your Favorite Enemies has already started to put everything we do under the microscope, allowing ourselves to find new ways to do what we’re good at and find new paths to improve in things where we feel we can reach even higher levels,… and who do you think is the center of our attention?  If you said “ME?” you are…. RIGHT!  You will have a greater understanding of what we mean by opening up everything by watching the videos surrounding the re-issue of the album “Love Is A Promise Whispering Goodbye”… Videos that you just CAN’T MISS by the way!!!

Our journey with you through “love Is A Promise Whispering Goodbye”

Life goes so fast. it’s a statement we all hear or say numerous times. It’s something we use to excuse the fact that we seem to lose control and are helpless seeing precious moments slipping through our fingers like sand. We look back and we can see a landscape made of victories, regrets, major turning points, persisting battles, reasons and remaining interrogations… Am I getting old to find myself looking back?lol Or maybe it doesn’t have anything to do with age but with a desire to fully embrace the full spectrum of life knowing that the past contains treasures we might have left behind or lessons we might find useful now. Of course we can do that introspection personally but we decided, as a band, to allow ourselves to look back on the time we created the album “Love Is A Promise Whispering Goodbye” and see…see if there were any hidden treasures…see if we could 3 years later admit what really happened during that troubled season… see how we are now the fruit of that experience, how we learned, how we grew… see and try to explain how this album impacted each of our lives, the lives of you, our friends, and how this album is still today helping us to move forward and dream for more.

More than a bootleg… a revealing story…a touching music flow.

Right after the Bla BLa Bla of last weekend, I jumped on my computer to download my own version of the Bootleg filmed in Kyoto as I, just like you, was about to see the images for the first time! I know it sounds special that even if I’m in the band I didn’t even see the bootleg before it’s release!lol

Thinking back, I remember what happened that day, what I felt and the sharing I had with our Japanese family who joined us in the temple as the rain was persistently veiling the sky and surrounding the music with it’s chant, but as I started to watch the bootleg, I had the precious chance to have another perspective, to live it in a fresh way, to give to it a new place in my heart and allow myself to grasp it’s numerous gifts.

AN INVITATION AS SIMPLE AS A MOUSE-CLICK

Hi sweet friends:)

Most of you are thinking of summer vacation and maybe even going more than 10 meters away from the computer screen for more than 2 hours… That’s scary!!!lol

Technology and communication is such a big part of our life that we can’t imagine a whole day without the internet, our cellphone, our ipad or AT LEAST our ipod (preferably including wi-fi to connect to the internet…lol). Yet, in an era of extra accessible communication, loneliness and human disconnection is still so critical, painful and insidious. Every hour we connect to internet…but who’s there to connect our heart to… clicking through the lives of others, can some pictures and videos help us to reach the level of communion we once believed in or heard about? I do believe it because when I open myself to you, when I share and I hear your stories, your life that you share generously with us, then when I look at your pictures I do feel the connection, I feel I relate to you, I feel that happiness to see you smile… Isn’t it weird that sometimes we still are the ones who fear to connect with anyone?

GIFTS WE TAKE CARE WITH OPEN HANDS

My dear family, the one I chose, the one I’ve been chosen, the one I believe in, the one that believes in me…

It’s easy to think that we are separated because our reality is different, because our daily lives don’t look alike, because we can’t talk or spend time together as much as we would love to. Of course our brothers and sisters living in other countries can feel this way, but I can tell you that it’s also how we can feel sometimes even here at the YFE HQ within our house, the close crew, the ones sharing the same roof, the same table. As we are back in studio recording right now mostly keyboards, lead guitars and vocals (oh… and we also have a section called “Chaos”!lol…), we are again quite isolated in the cocoon of the Studio. The five guys and I, Big Byrd and Sean are spending all day in that one room, letting the music we carry inside of us flow freely, trying every idea, encouraging each other to take part in what we believe is our destiny. We get out of the studio only to grab a coffee, a tea (for our English producer Sean), to go pee and we take a short break for lunch and dinner giving us the chance to see if it’s raining or sunny as we walk the 30 meters between the studio/church and our house. This little time away from the mics and instruments is also our occasion to talk and share with the rest of the YFE crew who are working so hard in their office based in the YFE house… Do we feel separated sometimes?… I do. But I know how to break that feeling and first it’s by believing we are united by the love we decided to build, by the trust we have, and that we care for each other, by every little note, hug, short conversation, the inside jokes, and also by knowing we are all walking for a common dream to touch the world with our common vision, our common heart.