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Five Short Words

Five Short Words is all about the issues that I come across –
especially to do with:
inclusion/exclusion, scarcity/abundance,
empire/commonwealth, business as usual/transformation,
arrogance/trust, competition/cooperation,
self/community, individualism/connectedness
…. and the real life choices we make.

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A Turn Around The Sun

This might be the last one today. This is a song I wrote after reading an amazing book ‘The Overstory’ by Richard Powers Briefly, the book introduces you to several characters in successive chapters. For each character, trees are significant in their lives. The characters come together in the second half of the book, but…

Breaking Bread Around The Table

This is another song from the last year or so. I had a riff on the guitar, and pretty much the tune for a whole song, but no words. It’s interesting because the song changes speed from slowish to fast within each verse, and then goes back to the slower speed for the beginning of…

I Am On A Roll

I haven’t posted for so long, but I just have a backlog of songs that need to be out there somewhere. The band I am in did a gig back in February, and the same weekend I did a gig with my wife and tried out some of my newer songs. This is one of…

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