If you are in a resonant room alone, sing one note.  That note exists apart from a harmony, or a chord played on an instrument.  That note has no reference to correct or incorrect pitch, so you can’t say it…

We used to have so much fun as kids watching the image develop after the Polaroid Instant camera spat out the square, interesting smelling cloud of grey chemicals on a piece of backing paper.  In about a minute, the chemicals…

With each increase in conscious awareness, there lies an increase in responsibility. If you know how to hurt someone, you know also how not to. It therefore becomes harder and harder to call your harmful actions accidental. Falling asleep absolves…

When you bite into delicious food, the experience you are having is compelling, and leaves you satisfied.  There are preconditions for your satisfaction.  The food needs to be: Made with the best ingredients Prepared with skill, hopefully by someone who…

“Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the most virtuous of all?”   “Well my Queen, since you are asking me, clearly you don’t know who is the most virtuous in the realm. A better question would be “what is virtue?”…

I’ve realized just lately that musically, I’m comfortable in a different vein than I had assumed.  For years, folk music was what I was singing and writing, but it was in retrospect a sort of compromise.  I just didn’t have…

  Within the walls of the village are found the artifacts of known territory. When moving outside the walls into unknown territory, we pack our bag with the artifacts of the known, hoping they will sustain us through our journey…

This morning, the wind is strong and the passengers of last night’s storm are littered upon the ground.  The branches that broke from the trees due to the force of the wind are mostly brittle and dry.  They were the…