NaPoWriMo Paris (NaPoWriMo 2) We emerge from your Underground birth canal Blinking in the light of history Needing to be slapped Born again as People who have been to Paris We know nothing Get lost in your spider web streets Distracted by Living black and white beat poetry A corner cafe where a woman
Courtney Marie Andrews Good Things To Be Good To Others “Please know you deserve to be loved” From Trying To Be Free Words have power. When my self-doubt has me stuck as a ship across the Suez Canal, the words of a friend – even the encouragement of a stranger – can free me. In the days since my new single came
book Good Things for Trying To Be Free Trying To Be Free is already my most successful song ever by many measures. On its first day the song received over 100 streams on Spotify – a number I’ve never even glanced at until now. By the end of the weekend that number had surpassed 200. More importantly, I’
animation Good Things for Wide-Eyes Today, as the sun tows spring slowly onto the shore, I’m longing to get back out into the world outside and gaze upon some wonder. In the meantime, I’ve collected Three Good Things for Wide Eyes that will help in the ‘visual wonder’ department. Thing To Listen To:
News I'm WAY more excited than I look in this video (unboxing day)! Umm - big news friends. Today I got something very special in the mail - MY NEW ALBUM! That's right - today I got to hold my first full-length CD in my hands, thanks to a UPS man who got scared away by our tiny barking dog. At
Good Things From The Eighties This week I’m throwing an eighties cover party called Child Of The Eighties, so I’ve dug up three Good Things to share with you from the decade of glitz and glam. Get Your Ticket Thing To Listen To: Cover Me in the Eighties I’ve been uploading eighties
folk music Good Things for New Ways The world is changing. I know that can feel like a bad thing a lot of the time these days, but some of these changes are good. We are finding new ways to connect and create even while apart – and these new ways won’t disappear when the virus does.
creativity Good Things for "Still Winter" Thing To Listen To: Meet Me At The Edge Of The World For several recent years, I’ve had the pleasure of learning songwriting for music and life partners Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist, better known as Over The Rhine. At least, better known in some parts of the world.
Love songs 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
art nouveau 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
album cover design 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
