July 6, 2025    Those who truly understand good music are aware that it’s all stacked upon a solid rhythm.  A songwriter might pen the lyrics or melody first and then see how they sound over a few guitar or piano chords; but even then, words that are sung need to have basic rhythmic components such…

June 29th, 2025 I once admitted to a friend of mine that “Eh, I don’t do rituals”, followed by “they kind of creep me out”.  While I cringe to this day at my narrowmindedness, to be fair, he had invited me to an annual ceremony in the woods above a small town in the mountains,…

June 15, 2025 “The world is on fire, my life is bonkers busy and I’m supposed to be sitting here worrying about ‘ingredients’?”  Well, we shouldn’t really be actively worrying about anything; but all of the stupid shit that’s been making our lives ‘bonkers’, can be worrisome.   Many of the things we carry an unhealthy…

June 8, 2025 At some point we were all artists.  Proof is hanging on the walls in just about every Kindergarten classroom; or in old video clips of us as children, random laundry wrapped around our bodies as we prance around the living room, belting our heart out into a spatula with moms bra swinging…

June 1, 2025 The other day I heard someone mention that people who are over-privileged complain more than those who have experienced a certain degree of suffering or hardship in their existence.  A child who is spoiled rotten, for example, may possess a tendency to bleat more about the little things that are not going…