For a long time I’ve done this thing I call the Fearless Songwriter Challenge. The challenge is to write seven songs in seven days. This week, I’m going to post the songs I’m writing during the week. They’ll be nowhere close to perfect. Some of them likely won’t be very good. That isn’t the point. … Continue reading The Skin of the Truth
Category: The Muse
July 18th Songwriting Saturday!
Here's this week's prompt and musical idea! I've been busy this week starting to invite people to join the new Discourse forum I've been setting up for the people to post and talk about their songs. I'm really excited about it. It's not perfect yet. (It probably won't ever be perfect). But it's much better … Continue reading July 18th Songwriting Saturday!
Hubbub in the Living World
Silence isn’t really a part of the living world. On a “quiet” morning when I walk in the woods there’s quite the hubbub going. Finches, doves, frogs, sparrows, muskrats, squirrels. They all furrow and murmur. That’s before accounting what other humans, canines and I add to the ruckus. If a person hears nothing it’s … Continue reading Hubbub in the Living World
Don’t Much Know What This is Going to Look Like
“Don’t much know what this is going to look like,” is a perfectly acceptable place to start from. It may be the only place to start from. Now, take a step. The next one will follow. There’s always fog on the path. Learn to move with, and in, uncertainty. It isn't easy. … Continue reading Don’t Much Know What This is Going to Look Like
Madness and the Muse
"They who, having no touch of the Muses' madness in their soul, and come to the door and think they will get into the temple by the help of art--they and their poetry are not admitted; the sane disappear and are left nowhere when they enter into rivalry with madness." -Plato (more or less) We … Continue reading Madness and the Muse
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