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At the end of each year I send friends a rather specific mail or text, a little prayer for them if you will. In it one does encounter the usual suspects. Hope and love above all. Of course I add in some titbits that is just for them. Yeah, I pray a lot and being […]
When I write music alone a few things are inevitable. Someone dies or love is uncovered in a post apocalyptic world amidst flame and ruin. In short when I write music there is no balance at all. One extreme or the other is all I know to do best. My life is the tightrope…. My […]
Ah yes. It is time I implemented my new plan, time I stopped focusing on other people. More music. Less people, that’s what 2020 has to be about. I mentioned all these weird moments in the last few weeks, didn’t I? And even with those I am still bored. Musically, emotionally – I need a […]
I have been running into the strangest people this last few weeks and have to write to make sense of it. Thanks to my delayed emotional response to most events, it only occurs to me later that something, somewhere was very, very off. I manage to find ways of avoiding deeply problematic situations, I realise…after […]
This time of year use to be hard for many years. Now, I am in such a great place in my life. In fact, I am for all intents and purposes rather content and happy dammit! I like the one saying I overheard about life being a reflection of who you are or are not…. […]
This song is called Queen of Pain and Suffering. From my Behind Closed Doors album. Look, the name says it all. Enjoy the song wherever you are…
I remember asking my friend if she knows what the Mandela Effect is. Her mind wandered towards Goodwill and peace and such things. The Mandela effect has nothing to do with any of those good feeling stuff. Instead, we are talking about shifting timelines and parallel realities. Like I said…this is gonna be a rant. […]
My close friend and I sat around the fire and spoke. ‘Do you think it’s true, the saying that one has to love the other more for a relationship to work?’ she asked. I paused and said that relationships go through phases. Nothing is really equal. All I have to do is look at my […]
I love spending time with friends who become family. Perhaps it’s the sound of a house filled with little feet, a blaring tv, the smells of food, smouldering fire and the clinking of whiskey glasses late in the evening that comfort me. My friends have two very healthy and active twin boys. Bathing and dressing […]
I won’t lie…Love Actually is one of my favorite movies. Yeah, call me soppy and make fun! That movie got me through some bad days many, many years ago. That’s not what this blog post is about though. Right now I am reading a book about a foreign country and I wonder, ‘Can I make […]