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Just created a blog over on Tumblr, finally.
I decided to make it entirely frivolous, and not at all career related.  At least not on purpose.  🙂
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First things first: Â Betsy’s CD release concert on Saturday night was OFF THE HOOK. Â It was so good to see her get to be the star she richly deserves to be, for a COMPLETELY packed house! Â Thank you all for coming out! Â Thanks to Betsy for bringing us all together! Â I was thrilled to get to make music with Vixy & Tony, Jeff & Maya Bohnhoff, Sunnie, Marcos, Alec, and of course Betsy. Â Just wow.
The Belle of the Ball, the Queen of the Flapper Faeries
We love our Betsy. Â Download her album here. Â Physical CD orders available soon!
And now, something else I need to share and celebrate today. Â It’s January 13, 2014.
Five years ago today, I earned my one and only significant physical scar. Â And you can barely see it now.
Five years ago today, my uncle the Rev. Hardy Peacock had reassured me that Friday the 13th was typically a lucky time for my family.
Joseph Campbell had a lot to teach us. Â Beats Antique, whose music I enjoy, has taken up the flag of Living Mythic.
Remember what I said a few days ago about recognizing others as the main character of their own story, just as I am the main character of mine?
I just started my Hero’s Journey. Â Where will yours take you?
Just a wee one. 🙂  This was how I spent my New Year’s Eve. Hope you like it!
Firespinning has been one of my favorite things since I started learning how in late 2004. Â New Year’s Eve 2013 was the 9th anniversary of the first time I ever got to do it (after many weeks of obsessive practice and safety training). Â Here’s to rocking and rolling with things that scare us a little, in this wild and wonderful circus called life!
Happy New Year, everybody!
Thank you, as always, for being part of the journey with me.
I am honored to be part of your journey as well; never doubt it!
Something I’m working on keeping in mind for this new year, as I navigate my own ever-unfolding story, is that everyone else I meet is also a main character. We’ve all got a story. Nobody’s just a sidekick, or just a certain archetype who fills out the plot. It’s hard work to remember that, and nobody’s perfect. But I try to keep respect and kindness and awareness in mind and in practice, and there are days when I get it right. 🙂
I keep you all in my heart, and I hope that you really have a great time with the chapter of your story that’s titled “2014”. Here’s to that.
No really.  How about some eighty free songs from my friends and me? Note: this link will be up for a couple of months! Feel free to share it with others.  For real.  Please do pretend it’s the best day of Kindergarten ever and share as much as you can stand it!
And how about another free new song from me, for winter time and all the best bits?
Download for free right here.  Hope you enjoy it.  Hope it warms you from the inside out. 🙂
I got to hear some of my very best friends in the world perform last night, for the first time since May. They absolutely killed it. In spite of unfamiliar surroundings and a crowd that didn’t know their music yet, together with the general atmosphere that bars tend to have (even really nifty bars are still bars), I thought their performance was top notch. After the concert, though, I heard from more than one of the band members that things had been really rough for them up there. They hadn’t been feeling the magic. It was a rough night.
I am here to tell you that Nobody Noticed A Thing.
This prompts me to say something. Because I’ve been there. Plenty of times. I’ve gotten off stage at the end of a show and thought to myself, “well, that was crap.” However, hot on the heels of this thought, all sorts of people, both strangers and friends, come up to me right away to tell me how great I sounded, and how much fun they had.
Here’s why that matters.
No matter what your inner judges are telling you, I would advise you to Listen when people who Love What You Do are telling you that you did a good job. Don’t let it go to your head, but DO believe them. And say thank you. And mean it.
It’s won’t be easy. I don’t know why it’s so hard to accept compliments for so many of us. But getting up on stage, being the center of attention, and sharing your truth isn’t easy, either.
For some of us, it feels easy. It feels natural. We can certainly make it Look easy. But truly? It’s not. It takes a ton of work- physical and mental. Every single one of us has an off night from time to time.
And you know what? People still love us, and still take the time to say so.
In summary, two things: One, yes, you rock. Two, thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Laddies and Gentlebabes, it is with GREAT joy this morning that I present Wonders the CD, available now for ordering right here! It’s still free to listen on my download page– you can also read the lyrics and the full credits there for each song-Â and now you can order the huggable version. Hope you like it! We worked hard, my brilliant artist friends, my brilliant recording buddies and me, to make it gorgeous inside and out.
This week I got a present in the mail from one of my stolen brothers. (I have no blood brothers of my own, so I have to steal them from other people.) It’s his newest creation: a slim volume of fantasy stories called Wyldsight.
Now, I am already a folklore and fantasy junkie. And he knows this. What he didn’t know was that I would devour this collection in less than a day, be brought to laughter and to tension by the words on its pages, and decide immediately that this little book, which holds so much more wisdom and awesomeness than its slimness implies, shall be required reading from now on for people I really want to have in my life until the end.