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-Photo from Sheila Chandra Weaving My Ancestor’s Voices
I heard a story about music once and never forgot it. It was about a young Frank Zappa. The story goes that Frank had brought a Beach Boys song to his music teacher in grade school and asked a question: Why do I […]

Photo by Norbert Rosing

Canada’s cruel, inhumane seal hunt is over. It is not called off forever, only over for this year, but there is something very encouraging and hopeful afoot. As a result of an outpouring across the globe from people like you, there is a high likelihood that the European Union […]

Photo courtesy of Rolf Hicker
If a heavenly creature plucked you from where you are right now and lifted you up to a higher, wider perspective: if you could see the whole world and your own life in it, you would understand beyond a shadow of a doubt that your role in the universe is […]

Photo by Norbert Rosing
Today is a painful and horrible one: the Canadian Seal Hunt began this morning.
Revenue from this horrendous practice will represent only a fraction of the fishermen’s livelihood. This practice simply would not exist without human arrogance and brutality, without ignorance of our extraordinary potential here on this planet.
Atrocities […]

I watched a dusty old science film recently of a lady who takes a powerful hallucinogenic drug. The change is astounding: she goes from being a typical 50s housewife to, a few hours later, quietly gushing about how everything is connected, how the air is alive all around her […]

If you were mine
If you were mine
I wouldn’t want to go…
to heaven.
-Sade “Cherish The Day”
I was born with a love for the human voice. Sound thrills me, especially the divine phenomenon we call music, and above all else when expressed by a vocalist.
A voice has tone and inflection, but it […]

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
-Martin Luther King Jr.

Last night, The History Channel ran a show on the 16th century French apothecary and astrologist, Michel de Nostredame. Michel is known to many as Nostradamus: the great seer and prophet who depicted in his drawings and writing many events that would later come to pass. They interviewed scholars, dramatized aspects of the man’s life, […]

Many thanks to my loyal readers during this time of transition. I have been doing a lot of work on my website, blog, fiction, music and videos. I’m making a splash at youtube with my first ever public release. I’m excited to announce to that my fiction is now for sale online! […]

A very bright man named Christopher posted a well written comment on this thread, which inspired me to follow up on the original essay. Christopher’s last paragraph:
I think the problem most have with “Christian” music is that the vast amount of songs just arent very good, lyrical or not. I’ve personally always found […]