In less than a year I have attended the funerals of three impactful lives. The first was heartbreaking. The second was heartwarming and inspirational. The third made me want to live a better life and love everyone more.
Read More“To tell the truth, I feel a good deal younger…” – George MacDonald.
Read MoreWriting is solitary sport but often is improved by the scrutiny of other eyes. Also, there is something both freeing and frightful to publish one's own words out in the open for all to see, or ignore.
Read MoreHow much music do you have in your life?
Read MoreTo be good at the first two is to be lazy. To be good only at the third is to be less than human. But to thrive in all three is to become more than we can imagine.
Read MoreDriving home with my wife, one of Sufjan Stevens new songs,“Christmas in The Room," came across the playlist...
Read MoreIt has been 15 years since Matthew Ryan released his first album May Day and quite a few albums later comes his latest work In The Dusk of Everything.
Read MoreI’ve been re-reading David Mamet’s On Directing Film. While there are some aspects of it that are very specific to the mechanics of filmmaking, it is a nice refresher of perspectives in storytelling.
Read MoreAs social issues rise - from chickens and homosexuality to taxes and poverty - I wonder how much we look to “Kings” to exercise Authority because we are far too threatened with the Intimacy of the Wise?
Read MoreSpace is uncomfortable because it allows for questions I might not want to ask, or answer, it offers freedom to be creative in ways my clutter kept at bay, it provides an opportunity to be exposed for who I really am which may not jive with who I thought you wanted.
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