About Me
.... a sprout from the desert who read fairytales
and dreamed of trees.... placed at the old upright on a stack of hymnals
at the age of 4 .... first poem, age 6 .... first kiss, age 12 .... first destination upon running away from home at the age of 17, Fort Collins, Colorado ... a time of hitching cross country, thumb in the air, sleeping outside under various night skies.... like benevolent eyes, the stars charted my course .... a pattern of arriving in a town, breaking into the nearest church to play piano, became clear, so I landed in LA to work, play piano and move towards the next step: a music degree.... with an emphasis on music theory, composition and piano performance, I received my B.S. in Music Theory at Western Michigan University in 1983. Acoustics, a requirement for my degree program gave me the most grief... I swore up and down, inbetween tears, that I would NEVER use this class.... but ended up making tuned windchimes, proving myself wrong. Still playing piano, now doing spoken word, and pursuing my masters in psychology, piano improvisation remains a primary passion.
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Davis Blanchard is a good friend, and has set up this page on his web site, which is very succe...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:36:00 GMT
winter, it comes (a pantoum)
winter, it comes..
(a pantoum)
in dancing cascades, leaves, they fall
autumn, many colored, is the author of it all
winter sends a chilly memo, signed with frosty dew
now time leans in...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:59:00 GMT
untitled (haiku)
touching grace, we lean
upon the shoulder of god,
breathing spirit's breath.
Posted by on Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:52:00 GMT
wisdom, shared
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Posted by on Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:26:00 GMT
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Posted by on Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:49:00 GMT
Miracles
Today I just received my first order for windchimes from my website - MY FIRST ONLINE ORDER - and it was ALSO a request for a custom tuning, my untapped, hardly used specialty...
Improvisation...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:28:00 GMT
... a beginning ...
In life, beginnings can be chaotic... therein lies a grand design, where variables dance just out of the reach of our grasp...
Blessings flow, regardless of terrain... and so, I begin this, my music p...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:47:00 GMT