Hi folks, time for a new song and video – also long past time for a brand new love song for my beautiful Catherine. Not conventional, of course (am I ever?) but I had a pretty good sense I was onto true
My third book is just about here, and that means it’s time for me to build up some of the complimentary skills that pair well with being creatively relentless. You know how much fun I have playing with the written word for
Here’s a silly poem that came to me a few days ago from I know not where. Always very glad when such absurdities intrude, of course – best not to question them too closely – might be mistaken for ingratitude! Huge thanks
I’m old enough now to have seen several cycles of large scale outrage, where a big group of people who were comfortable and well-adjusted were thrown out of work or similarly hurt, many got upset – and suddenly became, by their own
Here’s a video I made with my favourite out of the blue Christmas surprise last year, which I’ve been intending to repost for some time (FB vid-compression is brutal). It’s meant as a big thank you to my friend Graham, for giving
Here’s another reading from my poetry collection “Night Song for Cigar-Box Banjo” a piece with more conventional (that is, rhyming) form than usual for me – and a modern romantic take on some very old human themes. With so many things at
“Recess Only?” is the opening piece in my poetry collection “Night Song for Cigar-Box Banjo” and while the subjects and form of the other pieces range widely, it is still in a way also a natural overture. Readers will no doubt have
Photo credit: Nada Nesin Do not do as I (sometimes) do! I have to say that up front, to be responsible – if you are a young creator in any medium, take plenty of time, plan like crazy, execute with great care
I’m pretty sure it was Rumi who said, “I am forever the slave of that student who, after gaining new knowledge, will not then turn and say – that’s enough,” but this is a feeling that all true teachers understand (and the
Medicine gets a bad rap nowadays – thanks to a whole constellation of social changes, well outside it’s scope. The strangest of these is probably the way we have gone from a society with too much respect for arbitrary authority, to one
Here’s one of my more popular songs, which I shared on FB awhile ago, only to see it get rather badly mangled by their brutal compression algorithms. Once again, with HD settings, it should now go full-screen quite prettily. (Apologies for visual
And while I’m over at the far East end of town, I should probably mention that I reposted another music video (this one with my brilliant friend Joe Varga) to my new Youtube channel (which can be found here) Facebook’s compression algorythms
What a long heavy winter this has been. I know so many people who are feeling depleted and badly beaten-down. Made me think this poem might be just the thing with which to begin my read-aloud series. I do take great enjoyment
Some keen observers may already have noticed our long-arc deliberate step-by-step building-out process. Here’s another big (fun) new area which we’ve been intending to add for some time – video! This (filterable category) will contain poetry readings – and also original music