the new cd is great. special thanks to daniel s. mccoy and ron polito for making it happen. it's really positive and meditative. i think it is the perfect album for these troubled times. it brings you into the zone. kind of like club med, but avai [+]the new cd is great. special thanks to daniel s. mccoy and ron polito for making it happen. it's really positive and meditative. i think it is the perfect album for these troubled times. it brings you into the zone. kind of like club med, but available more often.
here are some thoughts about the tender songs on the new album:
first, i would like to say that upon relistening to these songs, i realize that it is a deeply intimate album. many of the songs seem to be conjured exclusively to be sung for my wife and what you are hearing is my heart and my soul and the longings for completeness that existed in my life.
i sought and found great comfort in another. i am still myself. i am still weak and imperfect and fragile, but now i am enjoying the peace of knowing that my heart need never beat so loudly anymore.
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on and on and on - this is the beginning of wisdom. recognize who and where people are and commit yourself to meeting them there. it is the bravest thing we can do. it is the most terrifying. it is the most comforting. and the beauty is the diversity of humanity.
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could be both - this country was established on principles of thievery. we stole the land because we didn't accept the principles of those already on it--that the land was bigger than us and that we were all squatters. when we approach relationships in the same way, we are setting ourselves up for the ill effects of possessiveness.
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maybe in a shade you don't know - at times, we operate on the assumption that what is impossible to know is that which separates us from the beasts. we build our common knowledge in a land of lures and bad nutrition. what if our saving thought was a new thought that we had never had? what if love were more imploring than we had thought? what if we had strayed from the two greatest commandments?
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what's it like to spend your life like that? - a criticism that i am aware of is that i ask too many questions in my songs. i can live with that. what would worry me more would be that i am becoming too smug. the questions help us focus and reset our perspective. they are much more satisfying than the answers. i was in the airport a few months ago and cnn was on. for 30 minutes, there was no concrete news. only shallow specul
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