“Boileau said that Kings, Gods, and Heroes only were fit subjects for literature. The writer can only write about what he admires. Present day kings aren’t very inspiring, the gods are on a vacation, and about the only heroes left…

Welcome,

I have a new song called Dungarees officially releasing end of this week. You can hear it right now. Thank you for supporting my songwriting journey.

The reference track for my upcoming release—“Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to…

I keep all my original songs in a spreadsheet and let a random shuffle decide the pick. Today it landed on “Submarine,” a track released both as a single and later on my album Many Faces. I love this…

It’s love that never spoke its name, understood only when it’s far too late—no sentimentality, just a slow, hard reckoning.

Those Winter Sundays

By Robert Hayden

Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the…

You know I can 
control the weather
with my moods. 
I just can't control 
my moods is all.

-Nick Cave

Dungarees is now officially set to hit the streaming cosmos on 8 MAY 26.

Here is a lyric snippet

"It’s not that I’m hopeless, but hope needs a break,
And the sun hides his face , he’s just tired today…

Most people don’t notice how much of their day is decided before they even wake up—grooves worn deep by habit, not choice. Every so often, I snap the needle on purpose: take the wrong road, strike the wrong chord first…

So Much Happiness
Naomi Shihab Nye
1952 –
 

It is difficult to know what to do with so much happiness.
With sadness there is something to rub against,
a wound to tend with lotion and cloth.
When the world falls…

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on…

Final Prep Done. Song launched to distributor for inspection. 8 MAY 26 Boom. It's a celebration

New Single: Dungarees: 8 MAY 26 Release

A friend gifted me a book of poetry by Mary Oliver called Felicity. I had to look the word up.

It made my word of the day.

Felicity is a word with a few closely related meanings, all centered on…

The song might feel like it just shows up one day—there it is, Dungarees, sitting in your feed like it always existed. Three minutes. A cover image. Maybe a line that sticks.

But before that, it’s forms. Decisions. Second…

Stay close to any sounds that make you glad you are alive.

Hafez

I started the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck the other day. The bolded line below is the excerpt from a poem by Robert Burns that inspired the title of the book.

The words are difficult to comprehend…

Get -Up Action this weekend and FM Six the next. Full schedule and looking forward to both events.

I speak with the future

Jane Hirshfield

We sit on our skeletons’ bones. 
We hear with our skeletons’ bones.
We speak of beauty by moving our jaws and our teeth.

The original meaning of Paradise: a place, 
a walled garden. …

Three Songs, One Decision

I’ve got a couple of unfinished songs sitting in front of me.
All close. None finished.

Lately I’ve been playing live—mostly cover tunes with friends.
It’s been good. Different energy.
But it’s shifted how I write—slower…

Vitruvius refers to Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, a Roman architect and engineer who lived in the 1st century BCE.

in a sentence
He spent twenty minutes aligning his coffee mug with the desk lamp, insisting it was “a Vitruvius thing”—meanwhile the…

This was quoted at the end of Robert Waldinger's fantastic TED talk on happiness.

"There isn't time -so brief is life- for bickerings, apologies
heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and
but an instant so…

Final Ledger of Earnings

What One Song Was Worth

By the reckoning of Old Earth, where numbers ruled more sternly than wonder,
the treasure Saurat reclaimed — 35,450 Cindrels — would have counted as a sum of merely $3.54…

Vellichor
Definition: The strange, wistful nostalgia evoked by old bookstores—especially the sense of time, memory, and lives contained within worn books.

Sentence:
In the hush of the shop, vellichor settled in—the quiet understanding that every spine on the shelf had…

Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey
By Hayden Carruth

Scrambled eggs and whiskey
in the false-dawn light. Chicago,
a sweet town, bleak, God knows,
but sweet. Sometimes. And
weren’t we fine tonight?
When Hank set up that limping
treble roll behind me…

It is often the loudest judgments that come from the quietest comfort. From well-lit rooms and full tables, opinions are formed about lives lived in struggle, without ever stepping into that reality. History and literature alike remind us that empathy…