There is a crack in everything. That is how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen It seems like we are all mired in some kind of mud right now. I know for me, it's the loss of a lot of things: a friend, a family member, knowing my friends in NC, SC and GA are digging out of actual, literal mud from the hurricane. (And don't even get me started on the [...]
We don’t think ourselves into a new way of living. We live ourselves into a new way of thinking. – Richard Rohr How do you respond to the above quote from my personal “guidance counselor,” Fr. Rohr? Does it make sense to you? I was raised to believe in God and that Jesus was The Son. There was a lot of modeling in my family for what Christian love is. My Mom was [...]
I'm not here to sell you on anything -- if you like the music, thanks! if you like talking about spiritual stuff, awesome! if you like history and trivia, fabumundo! But I'm not selling anything other than, well...I guess the word that comes to mind is: connection. And then another word after that: community. We all have a very unique journey in our lives. My observation is that how we live basically comes [...]
Why do an album of hymns anyway? The word comes from the Greek "hymnos," a sacred song or poem. Since most everything having to do with the Christian church was translated through the Greeks, that's why we call our church songs "hymns" now (our Jewish brothers and sisters call them "piyutim" and our Muslim family calls them "nasheeds"). To be honest, I'm not the biggest fan of the traditional Christian hymnal. [...]
“What gets you out of bed in the morning?” I asked my friend who had a corporate job. She answered: “Uhm… I don’t know. Probably planning my vacation.” I mulled on her reply then and I mull on it still. It brings up a couple of thoughts for me: 1) every day, I want to get out of bed excited about my work and 2) I never take vacations. Being a career musician is [...]
