*I feel the need to add this morning’s reading to this post as a reminder that there is one place to go with these questions, with our needs. And that the answer to self-driving busy-ness is not self-focus of a different kind. It is only in re-directing the eyes of our hearts to the Giver [...]
I heard the front door close behind him before I was even out of bed. I’d overslept. Now I’m slurping coffee and lighting candles, reading from the One Year Bible. Sizzling sausage. This is the tranquil intro. Tapping out a bass line in email responses. I can hear the rushing water of the shower upstairs [...]
On Monday I turned 37. (That’s me, second from the right, the day Mandy came home.) This is nearly impossible to fathom, because wasn’t it last week I was celebrating my 12th birthday in Kaiserslautern, Germany? Weren’t we riding the train, my aunt and grandmother and two girlfriends and I, trying on new clothes in [...]
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 didn’t really think about music as “art” when I was a kid. I didn’t think of myself as an “artist” when I began melody-making or lyric sketching. It was just . . .music. It was…a body part, like an eye or a foot. Something you don’t consider parting with . “Artists” were people [...]
* My apologies for going long tonight… Dear friend, so many things I've suddenly wanted to write you about. So many unrelated things on my busy little brain. I won't hit you with them all at once, but here's a short list. Namely, 1. Success & Celebrity 2. Internet OCD 3. Fear Tonight [...]
