While I Stayed Home, My Songs Went Traveling One of my most satisfying musical activities is singing at the bedsides of the dying, through the Threshold Choir, an international service organization whose motto is “kindness made audible.” We sing softly, a cappella, usually in trios. Of course, the pandemic eliminated bedside singing, as well as […]
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FAR-West News for You, Monday, July 5th, 2021
Topics in this post: Lockdown Lemonade #37 / Community July 19th & Archives & Upcoming / Campfire July 13th / FAR-West Teaches Archives / Best of the West & Beyond Archives / Where to Post your Gigs / JUST PUBLISHED! Monday, July 5th Lockdown Lemonade #37- Learning to Love Lemons by James Kahn You […]
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Lockdown Lemonade #37 by James Kahn
Learning to Love Lemons My first grandchild was born February 28, 2020, and my wife and I were booking plane tickets to go to Chicago to meet him. I’d scheduled myself off work for an entire month, but by the time we started making travel plans, the pandemic hit. We went into lockdown March 4. […]
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FAR-West News for You, Monday, June 28th, 2021
Topics in this post: Lockdown Lemonade #36 / Campfire June 29th / Community Archives / FAR-West Teaches Archives / Best of the West & Beyond Archives / New! FAR-West Website Events tab / Where to Post your Gigs / JUST PUBLISHED! Monday, June 28th Lockdown Lemonade #36- Catching Up While the World Was Slowing Down […]
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Catching Up While the World Was Slowing Down I have a friend who makes the BEST lemonade ever! Apparently, she tells me, there is some controversy about whether or not to use simple syrup – needing to heat a 1:1 ratio of sugar to water. But I do know, if you just add the sugar […]
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So Far So Good The pandemic has been cruel to countless people. Compared with others I have no real complaints. My graphic business did go into a coma. But I think the pandemic is telling me to give up the ghost and retire. I have food and a roof over my head. My music life, […]
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I’m Not Dead Yet My first thought was, “I’m too old for this.” When I retired a few years ago and decided to become a full-time singer-songwriter, I had been out of the music scene for many years. I had to start all over again, doing open mics, and re-learning all my songs, many of […]
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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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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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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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