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My take on life is rather simple. It boils down to the following, and this applies to projects I work on, people who perform with me, food I make, the company I keep and the men I chose. It all boils down to this : just how good do I feel when I think of […]
Coltrane at 2am in the rain. And swaths of sound, a cult of words becoming when spoken aloud. Leaves that trapped the desert sun unexpectedly. Radiant, chameleon like as the stars migrated gracefully. Yes, that sums up the last 14 hours. Great conversation and even better music. ‘You and I have known each other in […]
‘When I am with you, everything is prayer…’ Rumi I have gotten into greats heaps of trouble and had so much fun over the years. All as a result of this simple fact: I am a heart centered creature. The mind, what mind? Where is it eh? Logic….has not been prominent in my life […]
Is there really such a thing as certainty? I wonder about this often. As life can be so precarious. Things fall apart or come together in rather unexpected ways. No wonder our ancestors believed in all kinds of magic way back when… I mentioned a while ago that I start my day in a way […]
Perhaps I am just lucky. Some would call it grace I reckon. Still, I am a firm believer in the following: we are never left without what we need, especially if we don’t know what it is we are need of. We find people or sometimes they find us. Either way, it’s nothing short of […]
I have been having odd dreams lately. The kind that force me to start my day with deliberate intent. And they all revolve around men. I had no choice but to ask myself just what the serious fook is going on here? I have met extraordinary men over the years. Blah, blah, blah…we talk music, […]
It always astounds me somehow….that I get anything done musically speaking. I know my experience is not that different from many others. I work alone. Call on my band when there’s a performance. Write music alone, for the most part. Call on my band to make it their own. If I have any ideas around […]
This is a song Rodney and I always squeeze into our set. We record all our rehearsals and yes, you can hear the guys in the background. And yes, it was recorded on a phone. Thought I would share it anyway.
A friend once said that in order to be true to yourself, you have to be true to others. This…bothered me. I mean, seriously, what if the people in your life happen to be complete dicks eh? Just where and what do you do then? Or worse still, what if you are the asshole in […]
While sitting at the top of a hill on a bench, after getting hopelessly lost, walking barefoot through small rivers, a friend laughed and said, ‘So the answer is to have low expectations?’ No, the idea is to have no expectations and end up sitting in an unexpectedly beautiful place, talking, smoking in the rain […]