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Singing Sands

Singing Sands
We live in an ancient riverbed. The path of the river has been diverted, but underground it is still flowing in an aquifer from the mountains behind us. It cut the mighty bank, and swept along the mountain face, leaving behind sand everywhere beneath our feet. Impediments become sediments. The leavings of a stoney past, itself…
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Box of Strings

Box of Strings
After years of collecting guitars and the styles of playing them, I have compiled a collection of pieces that is diverse in style and range. The 10 tracks feature playing in Lap Steel, Hawaiian Slack Key, Celtic DADGAD, Nashville Tuning, Baritone, 12-String, and Cross-Tuning. Most tracks were recorded in a single take, in the improvisational style…
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Dreaming

Dreaming
Through symbols and signs we may greatly broaden the range of insight through experience that is within our grasp. A number, a color, a sound,  are all examples of symbols as ideas, that may present as gifts of guidance for us to access. Ask yourself why you saw that bird just then, what were you thinking about at that moment…
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Remembering

Remembering
In the northern hemisphere, the Andromeda Galaxy is visible with the naked eye throughout the year. When I first learned of this as a school boy I was astounded to think that it had been there all along, shining down on our entire history, unrecognized. In 1929,  with the aid of the 100 inch telescope at Wilson Observatory,…
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