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There are some songs one has to sing/act out. As in…one should be on one’s knees with your hands in the air pleading! I love everything about this song. Including that it’s 8 minutes long and so bladdy dramatic! I mean who writes 8 minute songs anymore eh? I know, I know…one day I will. […]
I had the oddest dream. This should be a standard opening line by now. As all my dreams are slightly odd, and I am always trying to figure them out. Why else would I remember them eh? In the dream I found myself sitting on the grass outside, immersed in a book. Something caught my […]
I have been following his work for years. I especially love the robust dialogue with his din around healing the relationship between children and their parents.
‘Don’t forget what you need’, says a friend. ‘And what exactly is that hmm’, I asked. ‘You need to allow someone into your life. And don’t send them on their way as you always do or friendzone the guys…’ I thought about this conversation as the moon beamed. I have a tendency to show men […]
I have mentioned how much I love this man yes? He is all round inspiring, a proper bad ass.
Lionel Bastos wrote this song. As far as I am concerned….this is the closest I came to saying those words in song. This song is on my Call It Love album. I sang it once only.
Writing music about romantic love never sounds like romantic love. Meaning, it doesn’t really sound….happy. Usually, deep nostalgia, sadness even, if your ears are not discerning. As though I left a small piece of myself with that one person and the music written is the final acceptance that it is so. Yeah, sounds very dramatic […]
This disease, seeing someone you love disappear…can break your heart… wide open. Seeing anyone you suffer does. This made me cry… I am proud to be the the ambassador of The Living Cornerstone Alzheimer’s (TLC) Homes. Understanding how the elderly suffer, helped heal my very troubled relationship with my father. Once I understood that he […]
‘How do people do it my dude?’ I asked my sister. ‘How can they have conversations about socks and shopping and cooking all the time!..?’ My sister paused while looking at me with the required amount of suspicion. ‘Ah, you haven’t been with someone in a long time so you forgot…’ It just seems like […]
My sister asked me a crazy question. No, it was a normal question but the ground was fertile with landmines and assassins camouflaged by the surrounding shadows. The question she asked me was: what is your favorite animal and why. I took my time and said, ‘My favorite animal would be without form, but should […]