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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

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Good Things on Sledgehammers and the Lost Keys of Creativity

As always, there are good things out there if we keep our heads up and our eyes open. Here are just a few that I found – or found me – this week. Thing To Hear: Harry Styles' Sledgehammer I'm a big fan of Peter Gabriel's big,

Good Things Of Old

Sometimes to look forward, we’ve got to look back. Here’s a list of good things from “of old” that may just make your future brighter.  This week I bring you a killer groove from Bill Withers, incredible hundred year old footage of bustling Tokyo and 68 bits of

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Good Things of Old

Sometimes to look forward, we've got to look back. Here's a list of good things from "of old" that may just make your future brighter. Thing to Hear: Old Grooves A friend recently posted this video of Bill Withers' Kissin' My Love

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Good Things for Your Eyes and Ears

Good Things for Your Eyes and Ears Here's are this week's fruits of paying attention. Thing To Hear: New Music From Hayden Desser I've been a fan of Hayden Desser (formerly he was simply 'Hayden') since his mid-90's lo-

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A Big Messy Groove Experiment 🎵

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Good Things to Hear, See and Try

I've been busy at work this week launching some new online concert initiatives and polishing up my upcoming single, Places We Can't Live (which you'll get soon). Even so, I've made some time to pay attention. Here's what I found

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Good Things for Imaginary Journeys

I've been finding good things in the world and I'd like to share them with you here each week. These posts will be free for all to enjoy, starting next week will come a lil' early for Patrons. Have a Good Thing I should share?

Make Music with Spitfire LABS for FREE

If you make music, you should know about Spitfire Labs FREE software instruments.⁠ ⁠  I first learned about Labs from producer Roy Salmond and I couldn’t be happier with the results I’ve gotten so far (thanks Roy!).  The quality of every instrument I’ve tried is top-notch and

This Is Why We Keep On Singing

I’ve been reflecting on the power of music this week – and since yesterday, the power of the human voice. Here in Alberta, new Government guidelines for outdoor events are opening up many activities starting tomorrow as the COVID-19 pandemic recedes, but public singing is not coming back just

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NaPoWriMo #18 - The Dare

The Dare   You walked across The empty street and  Reached out your hand   It seemed like a giant’s hand A threat A dare   Be human again  Incarnate Just for this moment   With all of the voices Shouting disapproval I reached out in surrender   I took your hand in mine

NaPoWriMo #17 - It’s The Little Things

It’s The Little Things   Like a bullet in an old drawer long forgotten Like a criminal who’s grown too tired to run Like a prayer can start out sweet but then go rotten Like a poison thorn dug deep within your thumb   It’s the little things that

NaPoWriMo #16 - In The Long Line Outside Canadian Tire

In The Long Line Outside Canadian Tire   A man races from his parked car,  Chasing a receipt across the asphalt Towards the socially distanced line  Of humans barely holding it together   He bends down to grab it  As the wind whips it up from his hands and  Three more feet

NaPoWriMo #15 - I Am Home

I Am Home   As the quilt of Alberta comes into view  I’m thinking about them  and I’m thinking about you And the ways I could change and  become someone new   While the wings of the plane tilt for landing   I already miss it, the sagebrush, the heat The

NaPoWriMo #14 - Deserted

Deserted   This is a list Of every person I watched Walk by my house on Saturday morning   I hope  next April This list  is longer

NaPoWriMo #13 - Left Behind

Left Behind   When I was 7 or 8  I would wait in the car Outside the grocery store Or the bank And cry In fear  I’d been abandoned    Not by mom But by You Because I’d been told You would come Unannounced  To take the good   Or, when

NaPoWriMo #12 - Jeanne's Voices

A found poem made from the chapter headings and illustration captions found in the book “The Children’s Joan of Arc”.   Jeanne’s voices   The peasant maid of Domrémy a baby girl   She knelt weeping and prayed garlands of wild flowers   The battle   “I am only a poor girl”   From

NaPoWriMo #11 - Birdsong

The birds have no idea What’s been going on Here they are on the Monday Morning of the world  Singing   I sit in outside in crisp April air Caught between seasons Thaw-freeze breath and Coffee steam rising like incense    The birds have no idea  When they snap the

NaPoWriMo #10 - Wonderful Ed's Blood-Red Cardinal

Easter Sunday I lay in bed and watch helpless as A fresh blanket of snow covers Spring’s progress White White White   I scan my bedroom for the brightest thing The blood-red breast of a cardinal Perched on the top closet shelf Carved from scrap wood In the ramshackle

NaPoWriMo #9 - Your Voice Gave Out

On Good Friday  Reading the gospel Your voice gave out When they laid him in the tomb  The finality of it The silence  Of flesh forsaken by spirit Tragic as a fallen child The Smell of myrrh The Weeping mother The Hollow wind The Naked sky

NaPoWriMo #8 - Maybe God is Self-Isolating

Maybe God is Self-Isolating This morning I lay in bed half-awake and try to pray into silence The first words I hear  “Maybe God is self-isolating” Maybe It certainly feels that way to me and has For a long while now Long before all of this began