my new website

Ok, yeah, finally taking my photography seriously.
Cary Miller | Photography

this made me smile.

“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can’t readily accept the God formula, the big answers don’t remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.” -Charles Bukowski

i’m happy to say, we’re back…

Wow, we had a truly inspiring band practice this weekend!!.. see, we sadly lost two important members recently (stand-up bass and tenor uke) due mostly to other obligations, and I’ve been worried ever since that we’d have a hard time pulling off our current set with just the three of us.

So it was a big relief to realize that with the removal of just three songs we were able to make the rest of the set work just fine as a trio — in fact, it sounded pretty amazing if you ask me… on top of that, we’ve added three new songs, and we’ll be working hard in the next few months to build a really fat set-list before we schedule another show.

I can’t really express what it means to me to be playing and singing again. In the five months we’ve been doing this, new life has quite literally poured back into my heart, and that, of course, is absolutely priceless.

I’m hoping we’ll be ready to play in public again by the end of Summer, so as always, I’ll keep you informed. We’ll also be doing some recording soon, probably starting in August. When we’ve got something good I’ll be sure to post it here.

Hope you’re all having a wonderful Summer. Stay cool!
C

as if stolen from my lips

“One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough.” –Hafiz

thank god i’m not censored

today is perfect
does that make sense?
that one day could be more perfect than another?
{i know, i know – there is no such thing as more perfect}
yesterday was perfect too
though if you’d asked
with that pitying look in your eye
i would have told you that the sky was too hot
my eyes were too itchy
time was running far too slow.
but none of that
is anything more
than that… you know?
and today really is perfect
and i’m just happy
that i thought
to notice it