Get Miles Away to find your way home ~ Gomez, Thomas Moore and Tristan

Bring it On ~ gomez

The year 2000 was an extraordinary one. It was the year I wrote and produced my play, Prisoners, which in itself marked several milestones on my spiritual path. And there was this girl. A dark beauty who rekindled my passion for music. Gomez was just one of the bands we […]

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Cycling Mantras ~ Establishing Desert Rhythms

Amplified Heart ~ Everything But The Girl

Bicycling is among my passions, one of the ways I connect to the world, my body, my being. The rhythm of riding, the cyclical nature of cycling, of spinning the crank arms, to spin a cogset, to spin the chain, so that the wheels spin. Round and round and round […]

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I know why you’re crying ~ Orbison & lang know why too

Crying ~ Roy Orbison

Music is a powerful muse for me, and words often flow from the imagery and emotion which rises as the melody plays out. Less often, the words I’ve written bring a song to mind. This poem was in my thoughts this morning and as the words of it washed over […]

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Hearts traveling faster than the speed of love ~ the B-52s, Topaz

52s ~ COSMIC THING ~ Topaz

A vivid memory of dancing solo on an Australian beach, the full moon intermittently obscured by racing clouds even as its rays glitterred off the cascading breakers pounding the beach. This song, Topaz, blasting at top volume from the small portable stereo speakers attached to my iPod. A breathless churning […]

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3 Things I Learned About Rejection By Being Accepted ~ A Traveller’s Tale

Travelers Tales ~ China edition

This post is an expansion of a comment I made on Daryl Sedore’s article, Why Rejection Letters are Great appearing on Write to Done. Sedore reminds us that in all endeavours we can expect to be rejected one or more times before being accepted. Every rejection is a good thing; […]

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The Dao de Jing ~ The transformational quality of seeing the beauty in all things.

Tao te Ching ~ Laozi ~ Stephen Mitchell

I can’t remember when I first encountered The Dao de Jing (also Tao te Ching, pronounced the same), which surprises me since it quickly grew to become my favourite written text. It’s brief (just 81 chapters of verse, a page or so each) yet richly nuanced. I’ve read all or […]

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Annie’s Song ~ Notes on observing the sacraments of a sacred life

Annies Song ~ John Denver

John Denver was a gentle, loving soul of considerable talent and purpose. He sang with heartfelt clarity and graceful gravity, qualities his music often reflected. Annie’s Song is ostensibly a love song, John Denver singing a poetic list of metaphors for how grand the experience of loving a woman is, […]

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Grace on my mind, and in my heart ~ Dave Matthews

Dave Matthews Band ~ Grace is Gone -- Excuse me please, one more drink? via http://myendlessdoodles.tumblr.com/

Dave Matthews, prodigiously talented and prolific, a true minstrel of our times writing soulful, often doleful songs of our everyday experiences. Transcendent, luminescent, playful. His live performances bring together extraordinary musicians with nary a glorious note misplayed or misplaced. And at the center mic, leaving no doubt as to the […]

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Neil Young: He came dancing across the water

Zuma ~ Neil Young

I can remember the first time I heard this album, Zuma. I was all of 20 years old, ski bumming in Whistler, BC, and gathered with a bunch of friends after the bars had closed. I can’t remember her name. She was skinny and not very attractive in any traditional […]

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Blade Runner ~ do androids weep electric tears?

Tears in Rain ~ Roy Batty

Blade Runner is among my favourite films. In a veritable symphony of cinematic elements — cinematography, script, production design, soundtrack, direction, acting — it doesn’t miss a note. The film touches on all the major themes of the human condition: love, death, good and evil, redemption, justice, ethics, greed, passion. […]

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