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Salman Rushdie
I recently finished Salman Rushdie’s new book Knife. As improbable as it seems for a book subtitled Meditations After an Attempted Murder, it is a love story. It is the story of love for his wife Eliza but also the story of love for democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and just fucking freedom… Read more
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The dream world and the waking world
It is hard to leave the dream worldWhen the waking world has so much wrong with itAnd only one thing that is right:It is trueNature, even endangered, is trueArt, even obscure, is trueLove, even misbegotten, is true Read more
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Recipe for a great record
In anticipation of the upcoming release of my new album Surrender to Love, I have been thinking a lot about what makes a great record. I have concluded it comes down to four ingredients. First, always, is songwriting. It is possible to make something great with mediocre songwriting but it is an all-but-impossible hurdle to… Read more
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Father’s Day 2024
If you don’t know what love is, it cannot be explained. The same goes for fatherhood. My father has been dead for 25 years. My own stint as a father – the heavy lifting part anyway – ended a decade ago. Even though the part of fatherhood that involves taking care of a dependent child… Read more
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The Lost Art of Letter Writing: Travelogue
Going through my Mom’s papers, I found this travelogue from a trip that she and my Dad took in 1987. 9/12/87 – First day – Montreal Canada. Tommy drove us to plane – uneventful trip – cloudy then rainy. Fancy hotel – Sheraton Centre in Montreal – went to a French mass – long –… Read more
Words & Music 