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Pod Blog: Meanwhile/I Will Return by DA
I recently posted two “When a song is a friend…” themed episodes to my show: A Song & A Friend. Each episode features a song by the band Daniel Amos (or “da”.) Click for “I Will Return” Episode. Click for “Meanwhile” Episode. Let’s take each song in turn: “Meanwhile” by Daniel Amos from the 2001…
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All the Weary (Feels)
“All the weary world awaits you, when you’re on your own…” Last year, “All the Weary World” was in my top 3 streamed songs. I started writing it in the summer of 2009. 15 years ago…long before: 2025: I binged watched Ted Lasso in the basement 2024: I was the “best music cha” ever. 2023:…
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My Life My Heart
“On New Year’s Eve I held a light and I held it high…exposing awkward dances…” A few weeks ago, I lent an old blazer of mine to my son who is a senior in high school. When he put it on, I saw the breast pocket was pronounced. I have a habit of putting papers…
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My favorite Christmas Carol*
*this year. As someone with seasonal depression, “In the bleak mid-winter” based on the poem by Christina Rossetti from 1872, always gets me “in the feels.” I recently learned this Victorian era poet suffered from “melancholy” (depression) herself. The first and last stanza say so much with an economy of words: “earth as hard as…
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Why the Crickets?
Three weeks ago, I put up a new acoustic album on streaming… “Lost in the Cosmos.” Today, Apple for Artists sent me play stats for the week of Oct. 10-16…0…that is, zero streams on Apple Music. “Crickets,” as they say in the music world. But in its first week, it had 54 streams on Spotify…
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Poem Post: tourist season busker
singing “Cruel to Be Kind” for the 100th time while hot girl jogs by and visible panty line blinds the chaste mind four seconds at a time then back to mine: the by gone rock of ages gone by. And somehow, somehow, it’s part of the Lord’s great design that molecules and miracles refine the…
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