Musician (or anyone) Self-Care – #SelfCare
A few tips for musicians (and other human beings) that might help you care for yourself.
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Blue sky #blues – or how to embrace changes
Surprise, surprise: from gray to blue happened again. The Blue Skies WebStory Here’s the web-story version of this post. For those of you who are unable to view it, please scroll down. To listen to the full piano improvisation — “Just Pretend” from Upright Blues — click anywhere on this sentence. Wouldn’t you know it…
Contemplative Music – Seeking Joy & Finding Bliss
You asked for it. You got it. Isn’t that the way life should be? Contemplating Life Literally, a few who are reading this have asked me for longer, contemplative tracks. And now you have three. First, there was “For Those In Need Of Love Today”. Thanks for all of you who have listened, added it
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Meditation Suite 2 – Beyond Silence
Meditation Suite 2 is the result of Stan Stewart’s frustration with his current meditative playlist. Maybe his songs will work for you, too.
Get Out Of (Internal) Jail Free Card
We’re having a pandemic. Give yourself (literally) a get-out-of-jail-free card.
Funerals – finitude, the great equalizer
Remembering that we will die is just a good way of saying – maximize now!
It’s Election Day USA – Please VOTE
It is election day in the United States of America. Time to vote, people! Once you’ve done your civic duty, there’s a fun vote you can cast as well.
Birthday Bonfire – an #improv #poem
I dream of rituals long since passed To which we brought old photos or wrote our deepest fears. In some tiny blaze or gigantic bonfire we would burn these bits of tattered paper. I guess that we imagined this burning could make the pain disappear or the fear dissipate. Though this imagining seems perfectly normal,