As you may remember, I was in Nashville again a couple of weeks ago, this time to lay down the vocal tracks for the 7-song EP I’ve been working on. These months have been so full, I actually didn’t even have all the music together when I arrived, nor did I feel super solid about [...]
Inspired by two very special ladies (Angie Smith and Beth Edwards), as well as John Piper who wrote that in every thing He does, God is doing a THOUSAND things. Sometimes, just telling your story can start a chain reaction, and we may have no clue what’s going on…
I realize I’ve been away from this writing place several weeks, and I’m tempted to feel guilty for not following my own weekly regimen. Especially since watching Julie & Julia last night. But then I remind myself that I am, afterall, a songwriter who does some blogging and not the other way around. So…thanks for [...]
It’s obvious she has the bug. She is 6 and can’t keep from it. Small brown fingers push the sound from the ivory and I watch her do what I do. Play. Evaluate. Try a new way. Repeat. Build a pattern, wonder where it must go next. She is emotive. Sometimes loud. Often tragic (her [...]
I begin by seeing (I’m a visual learner). Feeling waves roll in, scales fall, the earth shift slightly underfoot…how have I lived this long and not known this? A secret overlay becomes visible and wheels turn…scaffolding is erected on the interior walls of the mind, frames hung, phrases chalked alongside, and I start the climb… [...]
Great songs are born when they are born. Great books are read and digested slowly. The tide of spiritual understanding ebbs and flows to a rhythm we can’t force. There is a time for working the earth and a time for letting it rest. Relationships and households require awesome amounts of time and energy. Email, [...]
(This was originally a “page” on my former blog…since I don’t yet have a place for it in this new blog format, I thought I’d share it again as a “post.”) I’m sure I have it documented somewhere, maybe on a piece of notebook paper, but I can’t recall it. I do know it was [...]
“You don’t HAVE to do anything, but you CAN do a lot of things.” She was 16-years-old and said it with a comical grin, referring to my dilemma over whether or not to feel obligated to patch a small hole in my skirt. She’s a free spirit. I have never been as free as I [...]
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