To be good at the first two is to be lazy. To be good only at the third is to be less than human. But to thrive in all three is to become more than we can imagine.
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Driving home with my wife, one of Sufjan Stevens new songs,“Christmas in The Room," came across the playlist...
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It has been 15 years since Matthew Ryan released his first album May Day and quite a few albums later comes his latest work In The Dusk of Everything.
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I’ve been re-reading David Mamet’s On Directing Film. While there are some aspects of it that are very specific to the mechanics of filmmaking, it is a nice refresher of perspectives in storytelling.
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As social issues rise - from chickens and homosexuality to taxes and poverty - I wonder how much we look to “Kings” to exercise Authority because we are far too threatened with the Intimacy of the Wise?
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Space is uncomfortable because it allows for questions I might not want to ask, or answer, it offers freedom to be creative in ways my clutter kept at bay, it provides an opportunity to be exposed for who I really am which may not jive with who I thought you wanted.
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Getting lost gives plenty of time to explore the extremes in one’s life – be it the big picture that comes in Wide or the little rooms inside a soul...
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It was Robert Earl Keen who sang, on his debut album No Kind of Dancer , “I tried hard to tell you I was no kind of dancer,” and I have always felt I was no kind of one either.
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Writing may start in a solitary space but it cannot remain there and thrive.
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