On most Sundays, I get the privilege of gathering in my house with a group of preteens and reading through bits of the scripture and talking about them. And then praying together, it’s a thing we call the good news Club, which borrows from a tradition we’ve gleaned from. One of my favorite parts of … Read More
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry, I could not travel them both and be one traveler, long I stood and looked down one as far as I could, to where it bent in the undergrowth, you might recognize that as the opening stanza to the Robert Frost poem, The Road Not Taken. … Read More
It’s possible, if not likely, that if you are remotely pop culture aware and spend any time on social media platforms, you’ll see news about or posts about the death, the passing of dancer, DJ, choreographer named tWitch.I was struck by the moment I heard about his passing. A fan of his, I’ve liked his … Read More
I’m recording this introduction a few days after Thanksgiving. And if you’re listening to this when the episode comes out, it’ll be roughly a week, maybe a week and a day or so after the Thanksgiving holiday, which is to say this is the holiday season. And between Thanksgiving and maybe some things that happen … Read More
In 2002, I wrote and recorded a song called love. And I’ve been waiting to write some kind of follow-up to that song pretty much since I released it. It was a song that meant a lot to me at the time because I was trying to publicly and personally redefine the word and my … Read More
I’ve long lived with Seth Godin’s suggestion that art is anything you make that forges a connection between people. Over time, and in that light, I’ve also come to recognize that the depth and sustainability of my professional art life has a lot to do with the particular people I am connected to in/through my … Read More
My social landscape does not look the way I expected it to a few years ago. Some of that comes on the heels of religious difference or political disagreement. And as sad as that stuff can be, it’s also a bit cliche and predictable. If I’m being honest, what’s been harder, is recognizing that the … Read More
When I first started playing music professionally, it wasn’t the beginning of a dream. It wasn’t the culmination of a wish from my youth, not really. I thought of playing music. I thought it would be cool. But it’s probably most true to say about that moment, the moment in which I decided to see … Read More
So I’ve been really enjoying this new feature of the podcast, taking a question from my Monday q&a sessions at Instagram, and digging just a tad deeper into one of those questions, specifically, those questions when you seem to resonate with those questions and my response. This past week, I got a question that I’ve … Read More
You’ve probably had the bad experience that I had recently, that I’m about to tell you a story about, in which when your mind is already focused on something. You’re already thinking about something regularly, and you start noticing it or connections to it everywhere. That happened the other night while I was reading a … Read More
