Last Tuesday, I wrote about the history of my evolution as a musician, and this week, I promised the Mystery of it. So, I was born remembering Music. When I was three years old I recognized the tool that would be, literally, at my fingertips for the rest of my life, that would shape me […]
Sound is a Force Waves Movement of air We live in a sea of sound From our hearts beating, to our breath, to the hiss of the laptop fan The whir of the air conditioner, the rumble of a truck The neighbor’s lawnmower, his kid shooting baskets, their beagle baying in the yard The whine […]
I’m a fan of silence. I don’t listen to music or have any media on at all when I’m at home, even when I am knitting or doing something quiet. It helps me shut off the thinking and simply be. If I’m listening to music I’m analyzing it. I don’t listen to music in my […]
We’ve talked about this before, a bit. We’ve talked about the fear of singing, or musically expressing ourselves in any way. But, darlings, we need to revisit this idea. And it’s not just about singing, it’s about all forms of inspired artistic expression. Oh, yes, I’ve been thinking about this a lot. We have put […]
It got cold over the weekend, oh my did it. Bitterly cold, icy cold. Face-hurtingly cold. And it started with a fairly major snow storm system (the weather prognosticators even named it), which finally covered up the bleh brown and gray thing we’ve had going on since December, so everything is gloriously white and coated […]
Science! Welcome to the party! Glad you could make it! Thanks for the wine, can I take your coat? On a more and more frequent basis, scientists issue press releases about making “discoveries” about the behavior of particles or energies that explain stuff that healers, Witches, and Druids and been doing for thousands of years. […]
I keep forgetting how new sound healing is in the United States. It’s been around, of course, but not in anything like a mainstream way. When I say I’m a sound healer, most people get a very confused look on their faces–but fortunately most of them are curious and very intrigued. So I thought maybe […]
Every once in a while, I get the “disappointed” look from someone when I tell them I’m not gigging anymore. It’s a look I am intimately familiar with and highly sensitive to. Some people think I gave up out of heartbreak and sadness that I never got my pitcher on the cover of the Rolling […]
Photo by Gary Clarke Yesterday, the Family Folk Machine, a multi-generational, non-auditioned choir here in Iowa City that I am so proud and happy to be part of, played a straight-up magical gig. We performed a benefit concert for the local chapter of Veterans For Peace, to help raise money, to quote one of their […]
Words spill onto unspoiled white and where one there was nothing a new world is born Words fall from lips into an empty room and where one there was silence ideas form Words slip between fingers and where once there was anguish there is relief Words show up in the damndest places and where once […]
