The Website of Peter Link

Inspirational music is a new category. 5-6 years ago it basically did not exist. When Watchfire Music first began we googled the words “inspirational music” and up came 4 pages of references. At about 10 references per Google page that’s about 40 in total.

Today, I just googled the term and up came over 65,000,000 references. That’s an incredible growth over this short time. For the past year this blog, Sparks From The Fire, has stood at #1 or #2 on page one of Google just about every time I’ve googled it. That’s about once a month. Watchfire Music is nearly always found among the first 3 pages.

The great thing about being an Inspirational music composer is that, for me, there’s very little or no stress involved with the actual endeavor. I love my work; therefore, it’s fun, it’s rewarding, creativity flows pretty easily for me and when it does not, I know how to get it all going again pronto.

The only stressful area I can think of at the moment is when I have some sort of technological problem in my studio (which is rare) and it keeps me from my work and thus my deadlines. But that really has nothing to do with the actual act of writing, recording, arranging, orchestrating or producing music.

Series III of the Watchfire Music Listening Room begins Sunday afternoon, July 17th at 4:00 PM with Classical Crossover Sunday Afternoon – something a little different – something very special. Inspirational music has never had it so good as to be presented most elegantly and professionally at 583 Park Avenue by a whole raft of world-class talent.

The findings of quantum physics are startling to us all. Well, maybe not to all of us, but certainly to the way the world now perceives matter. These findings impact the material world dramatically as well as corroborate the truths of the spiritual world that have been labeled as “miracles” for centuries. These findings are the fodder for an inspirational song I have written these past few days that is being orchestrated now in my recording studio for WFM vocalist, Julia Wade’s new CD, Silk Road.

For those whose lives move beyond Inspirational music, you’ll be glad to know that baseball is alive and well. Once, not so long ago, beleaguered by drug scandals and steroid doubt, our national pastime has now recovered and once again become the game Americans love.

I’d like to set aside Inspirational music today and talk about body. In the past couple of months I’ve become aware of how unaware I am of my body. I go through the day and now and often stop and marvel at this package we carry through life – that carries us. I’ve actually been even stopping in my tracks occasionally and just standing flabbergasted in wonder at this wondrous instrument we inhabit.

Two major productions, The Finale of WFM Listening Room Series II and Expanding Our Music – A Workshop On Church Solos both produced by yours truly and a major computer crash on my studio unfortunately coming right at the time of an album deadline have completely taken every moment of every day these past two weeks.

Consequently, I have not found the time to write and post. For this, I am deeply sorry. I’ve felt like a very special part of my life just went away.

This is a story sent to me by a friend. It touched me and inspired me, so I thought I’d send it on to you.

One day, when I was a freshman in high school, I saw a kid from my class walking home from school. His name was Kyle. It looked like he was carrying all of his books. I thought to myself, “Why would anyone bring home all his books on a Friday? He must really be a nerd.”

I had quite a weekend planned (parties and a football game with my friends tomorrow afternoon), so I shrugged my shoulders and went on. As I was walking, I saw a bunch of kids running toward him. They ran at him, knocking all his books out of his arms and tripping him so he landed in the dirt. His glasses went flying, and I saw them land in the grass about ten feet from him.