Here, you’ll find the stuff that Stan Stewart has created: poetry, music, inspirations, staying connected with the present moment, photography, and more.
Trigger warning: this story and song are about child abuse. Take care of yourself, please. Story Up to this point, the stories behind my songs have been all about me. Though still personal, this time the story and intention behind the song are the point. So I am offering this as the takeaway from this story […]
Lyric Video Resurrected The Radio I’m excited to share with you the video for my eighth song release, “Mountain Rose”. While creating the fractal video for “Drink In”, I had enough fun that I decided to try my hand at it again. I’ve chosen the live, piano version of the song for this lyric video. Also, you’ll
The video for this song may be viewed in this post: The fractal and lyric video for “Mountain Rose”. Love It’s not difficult to find love songs to listen to. If I flip through radio stations or streaming playlists, I’m likely to find dozens immediately. In my song series, there’s been one very clear love song and
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The answers are questions. We can choose to drink whatever life puts into our glass. What I mean by that is when life brings challenges, we human beings need ways to face them. While people must find their own way through these times, we all seem to search for some combination of safety and strength.
Silence: My friends variously tell me to keep quiet and to boisterously express Both my fear and my anxious, soapbox warnings. If I could speak and keep passionate positivity in the foreground I would speak. But silence is the better part for me. To say what I believe would be to alienate half the population
Repeat My sixth singer-songwriter release is “Love Is On Repeat”. After several delays, I’m really happy to be offering this song for your listening enjoyment. In the same way, I’m overjoyed to share this story about my current life. Unlike the previous five songs, this one was written this year. If you can’t wait, the video
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Earthquake “Quake“: Yes, this song was inspired by a real earthquake. I’ve written previously about that experience and how it riveted my attention on the present moment, so I won’t go over that again. You can read more about that in these posts: Songs and Negative Inspiration Some will say that this song has “negative
Dreams are only thoughts you didn’t have time to think about during the day. ~ author unknown Songs of Dreams My fourth song release starts by singing “we all have our own dreams”. And it’s true. (Please check out releases one, two, and three as well.) Dreams say what they mean, but they don’t say
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Stories: Squid Some stories are easier to tell than others. It seems that many of my songs have vulnerable tales surrounding them. The story of the song “Squid” is one of those. How do you tell your deeper truths? Click To Tweet Singer-songwriter Stories: Squid Whatever else I am, I’m tenacious. One result is that
My second singer-songwriter release is “Confession:Reflection”. Over the years, this has been one of my most popular original songs when I perform it at live gigs. Unlike “Yet” (the first release), it has been heard by many people already. (In fact, there’s a live version in the EP from a few years ago.) It’s been
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