To The Last Whale/Wind on the Water: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2PH-prm8M4 Delta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBXCWHAP6WI River Rise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wakXsaDzeZ4 What’s Broken: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaCF3VzHhzM
I suffer from early morning anxiety and depression. This morning, I started wondering, “what makes me feel happy?” I lingered in bed and composed this list of things I can do to choose happiness. Perhaps these things will resonate with you. If you have more ideas, please lmk! Find the Sweetness gratitude, friendship, touch, listen …
I received an email from one of my high school teachers, Bil “Doc” Johnson, a few days ago. Doc is looking for essays to be included in a book commemorating the 50th anniversary of our tiny school in Rye Brook, New York – Blind Brook (BBHS). My first thought was to tell a self-deprecating story …
This morning, Beth decided we needed to fix our bed. When we moved into this furnished abode in Sullivan County, we knew that we wanted to replace the existing bed with our own. Unfortunately, I misplaced some of the original hardware pieces for the frame during the move, so we punted and made due with …
You haven’t heard from me for a few days. I really had very little to say, so I said nothing. This is not usual, as you know. In addition to this blog and my performing career, I have filled up many pages of journals and made it my goal, especially on the Adventure, to talk …
I’ve written about this before, but it’s on my radar, again, this week because we are working with middle schoolers, today. When we were fifteen, my friends, Bill, John, and I learned Transcendental Meditation (TM). Our parents drove us to nightly lessons, probably for a week, to lectures about TM and, eventually, to receive our …
It’s Sunday and we’re sitting in the second row of a UU Church in Danbury, CT eagerly waiting folksingers Sally Rogers and Howie Bursen to begin their show. We met Sally over 20 years ago when Beth and I were active in the Children’s Music Network. We stayed with them at their home in Pomfret, …
Tomorrow marks one week since I removed Facebook and 100 other applications from my phone. Since that time, I have not visited my FB account via mobile or desktop. I’m proud of that success and I look forward to continuing the journey wherever it leads. And I sure as hell hope that it doesn’t lead …
When I was a boy, I read lots of books. And when it wasn’t novels, it was magazines or newspapers. No wonder, then, that when I went away to college, I became an English major, and that I always seem to be reading two or three books at a time. As Stephen King expressed in …
It’s Thursday night and some folks are getting ready to PARTY. Me, I’m walking through town on the way to washing up clothes at the Jeffersonville Laundromat. As I walk inside, I see a young couple who I later find out are named John and Sophie. They’re working on the drying cycle. John and Sophie …