Dave Von Bieker

Indie folk to haunt your heart with small stories and big questions.

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Good Things to Capture Your Heart

Thing To Listen To: This Must Be Shawn Colvin’s Place This week I was putting together a great big playlist of my favourite love songs of all time. Part of the process was reading lists of “best love songs” online and seeing what stuck for me. Another part was

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Places We Can't Live (Solo Acoustic) 🎵

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Good Things From Long Ago

Good Things are everywhere, especially if we are willing to look backward. In this week’s Good Things we start by listening to the nineties then travel back a hundred years and finally hundreds more years, finding beauty all along our way. Thing To Listen To: Wildflowers At Home I

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Good Things to Celebrate The Album

We live in an era of singles. One-offs. Momentary attention. Think back to your favourite albums as a teenager. Remember sitting beside the CD player (record player, tape deck) and letting your favourite music overtake you. I remember sitting with Hayden’s Everything I Long For song after song. I

CARM

Good Things to Grow Your Self

Looking for ways to stretch and grow at the start of another year? Try these three. Thing To Listen To: CARM Listening to music in new genres can stretch your sonic muscles quickly, especially when the music is as eclectic as CARM’s recent releases. CARM is the musical moniker

2021

The Goal(s) Post for 2021

For the past several years I’ve taken time in January to set goals, only to fall short as the year progresses. Still, where I’ve failed I’ve learned, and where I’ve fallen short I’ve moved forward further than had I not had a target in sight.

2020

20 Little Mercies That Saved My 2020

2020 is now history and not many will miss the year that gave us the worst global pandemic in a century. Of course, that’s not the whole story. It helps to take stock and count blessings. You may be surprised, like me, to find just how many there have

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Good Things to Relax To

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Good Things To Make

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I Just Want Christmas To End 🎵

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O Little Town of Bethlehem 🎵

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Good Things to Build Your Nest

This week I'm thinking a lot about gathering. Some times we give birth to wonderful new things, and the rest of our lives we are preparing. Gathering. Building a nest in anticipation of new life. The key to gathering is paying attention. Keeping the doors and windows wide

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Closely Related (Lightning In a Bottle Demo Version) 🎵

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Good Things for Tale Tellers

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Good Things to Face Your Fears

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Good Things to Marvel At

As the snow falls, you may be in need of a little wonder. Here are three things to marvel at this week so stop being such a grownup and open up your little heart ... Thing To Listen To: Make Believe with Hayden Since I heard As Bad As They Seem

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Good Things to Help You Make Other Good Things

For me, fall is always a time for creativity. As I'm spending more time indoors, making things keeps me from wasting away in front of Netflix. If you've got the creative itch too – or need a creative kick-start – you'll find plenty of inspiration in

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Good Things for Inward Journeys

If fall has a mood, its introspection. Taking stock of the good harvest and giving thanks for the sunny days. Steeling ourselves for the coming winter. This week I've got a collection of Good Things all about taking a journey without leaving your own head and heart. Enjoy

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Good Things to Put a Little Smile On Your Face

In a week full of cooling weather and nasty presidential debates, I've been on the lookout for good things. Here are three that I've found. I hope each puts a little smile on your face. Thing To Listen To: Saint European King Days This is not

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Good Things for Some Mystery In The Air

Thing To Listen To: Wind Of Change Is Not What You Think I've been hooked on a podcast this week, and I'm almost done bingeing. The 8-episode series, Wind Of Change asks whether the CIA wrote a rock song that helped bring down the USSR. The

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Good Things for Writing Well

Thing To Listen To: Real Peach by Henry Jamison Sometimes I hear a song for the first time and a number of phrases jump out immediately. At the best times those phrases come tethered to an incredible melody. Real Peach is this kind of song. Lines like these reeled me

Things Not To Waste – Good Things for Sept 10 2020 

This week’s list of Good Things should not go to waste. We have a classic song, recycled. There are food scraps, saved. Finally, decades of IKEA catalogs rescued from the trash bin. Read the full list at https://www.patreon.com/posts/things-not-to-10-41468690

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Good Things Not To Waste

This week's list of Good Things should not go to waste. We have a classic song, recycled. There are food scraps, saved. Finally, decades of IKEA catalogs rescued from the trash bin. Thing to Hear: Right Down The Line I'm not acquainted with the deep cuts