For many thousands of years, most of life was a mystery. Still today it can feel pretty mysterious walking on an unlit country road. We created many (many, many) stories to account for the things we didn’t understand. Unknown places were where the gods and scary things lived.

Season’s cycles were a mystery – and then we domesticated plants. Animals were a mystery – and then we domesticated animals. The stars and planets were a mystery – and then we charted the heavens. Having looked …

This song was written after watching the documentary film, Last Call At The Oasis. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lq5yy0pYoQ

I was asked to write a song for the Chinese release of the film for the singer Sarah Li.

This is also the first song recorded in my newly finished studio in upstate New York.  And while I was thinking of all the facts and figures I could research and pull together for this essay, I realized that my own backyard was actually the place to start. As it increasingly is for …

This is a song about relationship

About the fact that – when we find truth in ourselves, we find it reflected in everything around us. We can only have authenticity if we ourselves are authentic. We will only see love and vulnerability when we allow the same in ourselves.

“Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

Let’s …

From Wikipedia:

1) May 1 is an ancient northern hemisphere spring festival and usually a public holiday; it is also a traditional spring holiday in many cultures.

As Europe became Christianized the pagan holidays lost their religious character and either changed into popular secular celebrations, as with May Day, or were merged with or replaced by new Christian holidays as with Christmas, Easter, etc…

2) International Workers’ Day (also known as May Day) is a celebration of the …

“How I got here doesn’t tell me who I am”  – Open Hearted Hand

What do you believe and why do you believe it?

We have been living out of stories that we’re told. Stories we tell ourselves about ourselves… stories history books tell us… the newspapers tell us…. our parents tell us…

We decide whether we believe in these stories or not. And build quite complex cases to justify our position.

But where did these stories begin?

If you look deep enough, every story comes from fear …

I keep coming back to the question, “how much is enough?”

Now you may think that’s a pretty ironic question coming from the son of one of the richest people in the world. But actually, it might just make me an expert on the subject. You see, my dad is the poster boy for the question. He has all the money anyone could ever want and he doesn’t need another house, fancier food, more people around him telling him he’s important, more stuff on his shelves or the latest electronic gadget in …