Have you heard The Goldberg Variations? They are one of the more fascinating compositions within classical music. Written by Bach in 1741, it is a body of work that has remained tremendously popular within the classical idiom despite its length of 80 or so minutes and is one of very few compositions that was [...]
Dave had a new, almost permanent feature by this time. A toothy smile that he had developed somewhere between now and the time I last saw him when he packed his meager belongings, most of it musical gear, into his humble car and made the three day road trip from Racine, Wisconsin to what would [...]
Narrow daylight entered my room Shining hours were brief Winter is over Summer is near Are we stronger than we believe? […]
Imagine a boy Kneeling by the window Lookin’ out across the driveway at the rain Will it always rain? I remember the bells From on top of the hill And I thought they played their music just for me And day by day The rain turned to snow Now I don’t hear them anymore [...]
I have my browser set so that it opens up to cnn.com. Today I opened it up to see the photo of a seven-year old girl who had been swept away and killed in the Arkansas floods. Earlier this month I listened to a woman tell me of extreme childhood abuse and the scars [...]
Have you ever heard the story of the Fisher King? It begins when the king is just a boy having to spend the night alone in the forest in order to prove his courage so that he may become king. While he is spending the night alone he is visited by a sacred vision. [...]
Today is Steve’s 47th birthday. We lost Steve to this world but there isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t think of him. Happy Birthday Steve. I miss you – this song is for you: He gave to me his tenderness His friendship and his love I see [...]
It was so right, it was so wrong Almost at the same time The pain and ache a heart can take No one really knows When the memories cling and keep you there Till you no longer care And you can let go now It’s wrong for me to cling to you Somehow I [...]
In my voice, in my smile In the eyes of my eldest child You appear everywhere in my life In a dream, I have now Standing still in my father's house And I try another time to run away I learned the music and laughter From the child that you hid in your eyes [...]
I’m not sure why I’m so drawn to water. Perhaps it is from swimming so much as a child or maybe there really is some sort of cosmic connection to a past life; I don’t know. I was walking around today just to clear my head and get some fresh air. I strolled down [...]
