I’ll be sitting there either by myself or with one or two other people, with an artist, and all of a sudden I’m hearing them sing or play and I can sense the honesty in whatever they’re trying to do in that moment in time, and I go, ‘Wow! That’s real!’ That’s what I’m trying to get. I’m trying to get that realness. ~Christian Cummings Continue reading The Keys to Studio Success
“We have the choice of two identities: the external mask which seems to be real . . . and the hidden, inner person who seems to us to be nothing, but who can give himself eternally to the truth in whom he subsists.” ~ Thomas Merton Continue reading The Doppelgänger Cure, page 11 (graphic novel series)
Blues artist Jackie Venson talks to the Mindful Bard about her sustaining forces and offers some cogent advice to other young women entering the music industry. Continue reading All Me All the Time, Baby! (The Jackie Venson Interview)
There’s no need to be afraid:
The past is written in stone and can’t return.
The future doesn’t exist, and never will. Continue reading Halting the Creeping Dread
“Now is the time for the country to shake off the destructive forces within itself and to live in the freedom and security that Tunisians both desire and deserve, a new peace not presided over by autocrats, army, or police, but one managed by the voluntary cooperation of a free people.” Continue reading Manouba, Tunisia: A Palace, an Escape Route, and a Women’s Prison
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