Personal reflections on my life and experiences.
When I was in high school, Chris Payton, my musical taste mentor, turned me on to the Sacramento-based band Bourgeois Tagg, which was piloted by Brent Bourgeois and Larry Tagg. Bourgeois Tagg was popular for quite a while in Sacramento, L.A., and southern California before it had a few songs hit the national charts....
Read more →When I was in junior high and early high school, I was, well, like I was in elementary school: pretty quiet, pretty awkward around lots of kids, and pretty unsure of where I fit in with people. I was pretty fortunate to be raised in a family where my folks let us try a...
Read more →If you want to know love, you must stand in the center of truth and be who you are, where you are, in life with others. It is only when the true me interacts with the true you that we can find a basis to trust each other, respect each other, and love each...
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I was fortunate enough to be able to get away with my brother this last weekend for a pretty stellar 24 hours of river time in northern New Mexico. My brother is usually pretty busy with soccer activities on Saturdays (3 kids, all playing), but we found a window that worked, and his wife...
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One of my favorite rockier groups from the ’80’s. I was pretty much a Christian radio kid growing up, and Idle Cure put some edge into the schmaltzy AOR I subscribed to. As always, my friend Chris Payton paved the way for my evolving musical tastes for most of those years. Fist bump, dude....
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After just realizing who these guys were, today the news breaks that they are discontinuing their current tour, and face an uncertain future. Relationships. Sometimes so tenuous.
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Something in me, dark and sticky All the time it’s getting strong No way of dealing with this feeling Can’t go on like this too long This time you’ve gone too far This time you’ve gone too far This time you’ve gone too far I told you, I told you, I told you, I...
Read more →The lyrics have been going through my mind this morning. Love ain’t love until you give it away. — “Give It Away” She asked him for forever And a promise that would last He said, “Babe, you know I love you But I can’t commit to that” She said “Love isn’t love ‘Til you...
Read more →Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord, O my soul. I will praise the Lord all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live. ~ Psalm 146:1-2 It’s been a good week the last week, although the more I seem to try and understand life, the less I seem...
Read more →Peter Cetera is famous for his Chicago hits and his duets. I didn’t really know who Crystal Bernard was until I saw her in shows from the last year or two of the series she was in, “Wings”, and I thought she was cute and funny. I came across Cetera’s fourth solo project at...
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Some funk-a-riffic tunage by a group shared with me by Ben Savoca, king of electrofunk and cool story bromanship, and who happens to look curiously like the lead singer of this group. What’s up with that, Ben?
Read more →Tonight, after taking time to make two loaves of bread, I watched a documentary my friend Gwen Sun loaned me, encouraging me to understand what had happened in a country she loves. The documentary, made by a British journalist named John Pilger, was filmed in 1979, four years after America’s withdrawal from Cambodia allowed...
Read more →It’s Thursday, and another week is almost done. I am amazed at how quickly they go by. It’s been a good day, but up and down as well. I was able to make great progress in a project at work, which I was able to hand over to my boss at day’s end for...
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“Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people saw the miraculous signs he was doing and believed in his name. But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all men.” ~ John 2:23-24 “For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to...
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Comedy Central Hilarious look at the diversity of names found among college athletes. Compliments: Chris Payton. — Evidently, people are looking for a hard copy of the names, so here you go. The players: The East D’Marcus Williums, University of Georgia T. J. Juckson, Wayne State Univeristy T’Variusness King, Merrimac College Tyroil Smoochie-Wallace, University...
Read more →It’s been a few weeks since I’ve written anything, and frankly, I know there have been things to write, but I’ve either been too busy or the topics seem to big to get into a post. Time has flown by, as well. I often get home in the evenings, and once I am there,...
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