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Falling in love isn’t easy, especially if it wasn’t your plan to fall in love, despite being very reasonable at every turn. So I did the one thing I shouldn’t. I lost my footing, listened to other people, got completely freaked out and …wrote music. Like one possessed. Then I went to India and only […]

I wonder, often, what I spend the greatest amount of time thinking about…and then how accurately or not my life reflects my dominant beliefs. A friend said yesterday, ‘Why don’t you just settle down and teach. Sing locally, have a little house and a lover…’ Something in my soul, something somewhere inside of me shouted…no, […]

It’s been a while since I had a Ben Harper dream. So, something is up. This wasn’t a dream where I was given clues about my future. No, it was a dream filled with insights I need to think through carefully… Ben Harper was in some university town and I with my daughter. There were […]

I know, I know…I could blog about many things. The state of our country South Africa, the various tribes of people, our past and how we are trying to heal it, the wonderful musicians, writers, artists, the projects by various organizations all working towards social cohesion in our communities….yet all I speak of is Love […]

Sleep is a luxury. When I am deeply troubled  sleep is the first thing that goes. Either I sleep too much or barely at all. A few months ago all I did was sleep, eat and write music. I kept horrible hours. Sometimes waking up at 2am and writing until 10, only to sleep whenever […]

I woke up feeling bereft. When all the words and music I cloak myself in where stripped, all I knew were those six little letters.  I sat perfectly still as my coffee steamed and my cigarette burned while slowly being devoured by those words. ‘Mother, I get that when you feel unsafe you remove yourself […]

I am not often swayed by words. But tell me…what could I  do on a dark night at the beach when he looked at me and said,  ‘Yours are the kinds of hands that could set wars in motion…’? I mean seriously! As a songwriter  that sentence caused my mind to race. Everyone knows how […]

This is something I wrote after a dream. Some of these words are already music. The one feeds into the other. And it really is cathartic releasing emotions, mixing them around until the words fit. Makes one feel lighter somehow. And no, I am not as… unhappy as the music or words suggest (I think!) […]