What joy brings

What joy brings

Dear friends, In reflecting on the need to open to the vast suffering in this world right now, I sense and am grateful for the heart’s natural response, the arising of compassion. and simultaneously, the knowledge that I cannot take for granted my extreme good fortune...
When Singing Just Sing

When Singing Just Sing

In 2001, Narayan Helen Liebenson, the founding teacher of Cambridge Insight Meditation Center wrote and illustrated a little book called “Life as Meditation.” In 2009, for a holiday gathering (talent show) I performed a song that I wrote based on some of...
Gone to Seed

Gone to Seed

What a funny expression, “gone to seed” – does it mean that something is “past its prime,” or “over the hill?” The marsh grass in Ipswich is not quite as vibrantly green as was two weeks ago.  The tall stalks have many slender seeds which soon will...
New Release

New Release

I’ve just released a new album of original music recorded in early May with my band “Heart of Hearing.”  The album, called “Kindness,”  has nine of my original songs that I am grateful to be able to share with you here.  It is also available on all the major streaming...
Coming Together

Coming Together

The lilacs in our postage stamp-sized backyard are peaking in the depth of their color and fragrance today.  It seems like spring happened overnight.  The world seemed to turn from black and white to living color so suddenly this year. But of course the plants and...