Almost Composed

Meditation and curiosity

Priorities/distractions

February 3, 2014

Of the two stories mentioned in my last update, I’ve been drawn to writing the folk tale. The quest narrative and father/son theme is especially relevant right now. Next step: summarise all of my notes into a one or two page overview. However, I’m already getting sidetracked by the temptation of new musical projects. One […]

categories: music

Thinking time

January 24, 2014

When you pause to think about it, time is obviously a measure of change and not a cause of change. Holding my infant son and pacing the bedroom to keep him from screaming, I looked at my wife’s bedside clock and tried to guess when I could reasonably expect to get some shuteye. Maybe it […]

categories: philosophy, reflections
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Canoes

January 12, 2014

We caught on memories, each one a wrecked canoe painted with forest-darkened light from a world gone to the shadows where they were silted.      

categories: poems

Nostalgia for the nameless

January 9, 2014

My parents are leaving the town I did most of my growing up in. Recently, I found myself thinking about the stream that runs through the woods behind my old school, behind retail outlets now boarded up. As schoolboys, my friends and I were in the habit of building dams. Our method was simple and cheap […]

categories: essays, reflections
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Anthem for cold December nights

December 29, 2013

What could be more rockin’ than a cover from My Fair Lady…?  

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