Sleeping Softly in This Bed

This one was off my second album called In the Dust of This Planet. I was still learning the craft.  Give it spin.  Hard to believe this is #50 on the list. I made this…

Misty
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

And sometimes when I move
at the edge of a greatness—
a lake or a sea or a mountainside—

my insignificance thrills me
and the largest of my sadnesses
dwindles smaller than the space

between grains…

Thinking about my next single release tonight.

I am feeling Lighter Than a Photon.

I plan to release this on or around Thanksgiving Day

Thank You

Dave

Photo by serkan atay

Galagog is a neologism (an invented word) coined by John Koenig for his project, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.

Definition

• Part of speech: Noun (n.)
• Pronunciation: "gal-uh-gawg"
• Meaning: The state of being simultaneously entranced and unsettled by…

I wonder how much of life happens in the margins.

The things that weren't on the calendar. The conversations that took a strange turn. The wrong turn that turned out to be the right one. The song you stumbled across…

Of The Empire

We will be known as a culture that feared death
and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity
for the few and cared little for the penury of the
many. We will be known as a culture…

Musée des Beaux Arts

By W. H. Auden
December 1938

About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or…

The word is ÉNOUEMENT, from Maria Popova's The Marginalian, featuring John Koenig's The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.

And it's a rather beautiful word.

Definition:

The bittersweetness of having arrived here in the future, finally learning the answers to how things…

I wanted to make a Halloween playlist.

But I didn't want to make the usual Halloween playlist.

I wanted to get a little outside the box — to wander beyond the familiar artists and songs and, hopefully, discover a few…

I released this song in July of 2019 and incorporated it into one of the songs on my album Your Corners Curve Like Lemonade released in 2020. That was a fun album and grouping of songs.

It is called Echo…

You don't see faith healers working in hospitals for the same reason you don't see psychics winning the lottery every week 

-Author unknown

Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof, especially when the stakes are high. I grow weary of a proliferating…

Hi everyone,

I've got something new to share: a movie-style trailer for my upcoming album, and I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out.

The nine songs on this album seem to share a certain atmosphere — cool blue, a…

The Moon
Emily Dickinson

The moon was but a chin of gold
A night or two ago,
And now she turns her perfect face
Upon the world below.

Her forehead is of amplest blond;
Her cheek like beryl stone;
Her…

“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”
— John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Thou mayest.”
— John Steinbeck, East of Eden

I wanted to make a fall playlist.

But I didn't want to make the usual fall playlist.

I wanted to get a little outside the box — to wander beyond the familiar artists and songs and, hopefully, discover a few…

Gravity — this is on Spotify, but you can find it on any of your favorite streaming services. Give it a spin.

This is from my first album, and I can certainly hear the flaws in this early work. But…

The Tree
Ezra Pound

I stood still and was a tree amid the wood,
Knowing the truth of things unseen before;
Of Daphne and the laurel bow
And that god-feasting couple old
that grew elm-oak amid the wold.
’Twas not…

Refulgent: shining brightly; radiant or brilliantly luminous.

The refulgent light from the kitchen window woke me up.

A new song hit the 98% mark this weekend.

I’m using this blog to capture a moment in time. The song will be released, but it won’t be for several “migrations.”

What’s it called? I don’t know yet. What’s it…

Have a Good Night folks

Peace Out

"Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it.” 

Ursula K. Le Guin 

590 Light Years Away
In the same breath they use to introduce themselves,
three men in white coats ask if I have
tingling in the privates.
One asks it while my hand is still in his.
I want to make…

Here is a snapshot of the FMSix show this past Saturday

We sounded great!

Here is a link to FMSix on Facebook

Here is a link to more Youtube videos of our latest gig.

Come Up for Air

This one comes from my album It Takes One Drop.

I actually started Come Up for Air on an old four-track recorder, probably sometime in the ’90s or early 2000s. I loved that thing. I squeezed…