...PERHAPS THE SORROW OF CHARLESTON, FERGUSON, AND FOR TRAYVON WOULD BE MUSIC WE HEARD MUCH LESS OFTEN. Listen to this and hear what happens when black and white, young and old, urban and rural, … [Read more...]
Song Therapy
Fortune cookie-sized advice linked to a mighty fine song (or poem).
A Bridge to Somewhere
A Bridge to Somewhere, featuring “I and Love and You” by The Avett Brothers The bridge between “I” and “You” can be joy, hate, anger, indifference, lust…and in truth is all of that and … [Read more...]
KOKO, featuring First Aid Kit
The only alternative to keep on keeping on is to stop. In a universe of relentless change that keeps on keeping on, to stop is to be extinguished - and so is no alternative at all. "Keep on," my … [Read more...]
Resurrection Pill, featuring “Rise” by Eddie Vedder
Resurrection Pill Take one sharp needle, use it to poke a pinhole in a piece of paper, then look through that tiny hole. Such is our perspective on the universe; such is our perspective … [Read more...]
Balance is a myth, featuring “Same old, same old” by Civil Wars
Don’t want to fight, don’t want to struggle, don’t want to go through strife? Time to call hospice and hook up the morphine drip. Equilibrium is the casket in which we lie down, fall asleep, and … [Read more...]
Broken Religion
Broken Religion When religion is about sin, scarcity, and the singularity of truth it inevitably leads to violence, vulgarity, and veritable falsehoods about God. … [Read more...]
The Power of Two
Sometimes you make music with the band, and sometimes, you are the band: never underestimate what only two people can do and the power they can unleash. … [Read more...]
Gold in our wounds
The cracks in our lives are filled with gold just waiting to shine. … [Read more...]
Gold melts away
Gratitude is the beginning of wisdom, grief is its mellowing, surrender its renewal. … [Read more...]