Essays

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 …