The Silver Lining By Susie Glaze Nobody would have wanted to bring on a global pandemic so that we would develop innovations in almost everything we do, connecting dots where, we were jolted to realize, a lot of the dots had disappeared. We had to find new ways of doing things. And find them we […]
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Lockdown Lemonade #30 by Bill Goodell
Planes, trains, automobiles and… MUSIC! I made career decisions long before I was equipped to gauge the meaning of them. I had nearly infinite interests during childhood, with parents both amazingly supportive, yet rarely directive… Today, a clear result is that when a stranger asks what I do for a living, my fast and flip […]
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The Great Pause I’ve been thinking a lot about breath & breathing lately. And rest notation in music. Like pretty much everyone else who is breathing, the past year I’ve maneuvered my way through a series of phases: Shock – disorientation – adjusting to an unthinkable new reality – learning coping skills and figuring out […]
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Busier Than Ever… In January 2020, I had a wonderful new place to present my house concert series and went all out getting blue mugs and serving dishes from thrift stores, making a couple of different sized Two Blue Roses banners, blue Christmas lights, and more …. I presented two shows there; my last in-person […]
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~ Anonymous (or the muse!) In an attempt to keep us connected as we continue to find our way through these often stressful times, some in our extended community have been sharing their experiences, lessons learned and hope as they’ve dealt with Covid, lockdown, boredom, lack of inspiration, etc. We are all looking for […]
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When Life Gives you Lemons, Check to See if you can Upgrade to a Box of Chocolates! In 1651, English philosopher Thomas Hobbes wrote a masterpiece of political philosophy, Leviathan, in which he opined that the natural life of man was: “[S]olitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.” It is interesting to consider the similarities between life in England […]
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Grateful Not that I ever care to repeat these past 12 months!!! But, I can say they have been positively life altering in unexpected ways. As if the fear of contracting Covid wasn’t enough, I lost my Dad barely a month into quarantine. His only daughter (parents divorced when I was 2), I navigated the […]
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Elderberry Étouffée: Twenty Twenty Smothered in Good & Plenty As with all new years, but especially with new decades, it was supposed to be a rebirth. My 2020 ironically began in a socially-undistant crowd as I rang in the New Year with tens of thousands of revelers at Universal Studios in Orlando. As the clock […]
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Choosing Joy with the Help of Music, Wildlife, and Cakes during the Pandemic Before the pandemic hit, I was having a great year in 2020. I wrote a song for the first time. In January, I passed my Aikido brown belt test. Then, in March, everything shut down and it seemed like my whole life […]
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My Year of Living Virtually February 29th, 2020: I had just done a live concert, sharing a bill with Brad Colerick at Bernie Larsen’s Ojai Underground. We packed the place, Brad and me, and besides bassist Carl Sealove and Scotty Breadman on percussion, Brad and I shared the services of Tim Fleming, a true prince […]
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