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Hello World! Yes, I’m still here. It’s been a crazy year of travel. I’ll catch you up on those travel logs eventually, but in the mean time I just wanted to say hello. After the Amtrak adventure in February, we also had a road trip to California in May. I was in Kenya in July,Continue reading “Still Here!”

Hello everyone! Presser decided not to publish this piece, so I have made it available along with my other works on Sheet Music Plus. You can purchase this piece here https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/2020-the-year-we-could-not-breathe-digital-sheet-music/22582443

I have the video posted on YouTube now. You can see it here and read my notes about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l338L1pECk The piece is not published yet. I am in conversation with a publisher and will post here and on YouTube when I know more. Thanks!

Hello my friends!  Yes I’m still alive, and fresh back from the National Flute Association annual convention.  This year we were in Phoenix, yes that Phoenix, the one that’s been having 110+ temperatures.  I now know what it’s like to walk across the street at 115 degrees F. They say, “but it’s a dry heat”. Continue reading “NFA Afterglow”

Well, friends, Mom passed away last night. It was a long time coming so there is some relief now. She was comfortable for the most part, just taking her time. Here is my song “Prayer” that I wrote many years ago and was recently able to have recorded and shared with her. She had alwaysContinue reading “Bye, Mom”

Here is today’s haul.  My bag was so full I couldn’t tie it closed.  I had to get a piece of tape from inside and seal it with that.  I walked a route today that I have not walked in a while, so this was probably several weeks of accumulated trash. Some of these largerContinue reading “Today’s Trash Pickup”

I like to get out for a daily walk. Good not only for my physical health, but for my mental health as well. Lately it’s also been good for the planet. I read something recently about the plastics that get into the ocean. Little bits of plastic that wash into the rain sewer system andContinue reading “Walking for the planet”

In the fall of 2017, during one of my concert weekends in Newport, Oregon, my wife and I met a young man from Germany in the lobby of the Sylvia Beach Hotel. He, Robert, had just spent the summer bicycling across the United States from Boston to Newport. We struck up a conversation and invitedContinue reading “Siciliano”

Part of my preparation to play my concerto this year included practicing compassion for my audience. If we truly feel compassion for someone, or a collection of someones, it is difficult to also be afraid of them. I wrote the following meditation for myself. I keep it in my flute case and read it asContinue reading “Compassion for My Audience”