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Good Things

A collection of 19 posts

Good Things From the Robots in Control

Nick Cave's Carnage and Julien Baker's Little Oblivions album covers combined

Good Things for Big Questions

Jimmy Kimmel Live! Presents Ten Hours of People Touching Each Other

Good Things to Relax To

Good Things To Make

Good Things to Build Your Nest

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

Good Things for Tale Tellers

Good Things for Tale Tellers

Good Things to Face Your Fears

Good Things to Face Your Fears

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. Thing to Hear: Old Grooves A friend recently posted this video of Bill Withers' Kissin' My Love

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-fi hit

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

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?