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by Mike Power

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  • Happy St. Patrick’s Day – Cooley’s Reel

    I wanted to learn a reel for St. Patrick’s Day and this was literally the first one to come up in a Google search. So I learned (more or less) how to play it (OK, less). The history of this reel, like many Irish things, is a little foggy. First, Joe Cooley may have stole… Read more

  • I Savor The Pain You Cause Me – Sand

    It starts early and it never stopsIf anything, it gets more intense over timeThere’s no avoiding this curseThere’s no escaping this blessingI’ve resigned to feed the flame until my fuel is spentFor you, childI pretend to be more than I amI believe every lie I canI wouldn’t know you if we met todayBut I would… Read more

  • Anti-Social Media

    “No longer riding on the merry-go-round I just had to let it go.”  – John Lennon It turns out I’m not a misanthrope after all, that I really like people. They’re just more abstract than I expect them to be – disorienting and playful, like dolphins. In real life. On social media, they get squeezed… Read more

  • I Savor The Pain You Cause Me – Sunsong

      There’s a blue light on the hills A cold wind is coming down from the north The river is rising The moon is full Cats are crying outside and in Crying to get in Crying to get out Or crying to hear the sound in their ears that matches the one ripping their hearts… Read more

  • Demo: Your Grace

    All the songs I post to this blog, like the writing and drawing posts, are rough sketches for more professionally produced versions that may or may not ever see the light of day. I find it helps to get an idea down in some form while it’s fresh in my mind with the intention of… Read more

  • Review: Printing Women at the New York Public Library

    If you find yourself in freezing mid-town Manhattan and need a place to duck into for warmth you can always do worse than the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue between 40th & 42nd Streets. And if you go by January 31, you can explore Three Centuries of Female Printmakers, 1570-1900 on the third… Read more