Winters’ Day In
Time to spill the tea. Wanna cuppa?
7 Moments: What's Been Keeping Me Busy
A photo essay of what's been filling up my blog silence.
Local Artist Spotlight: The Honey Cowboy and Midnight Lights
Reviews of albums by local Peace Country artists "The Honey Cowboy" and "Midnight Lights".
Photo Friday: True Love
"Then the world discovers as my book ends how to make two lovers of friends."
7 Fabulous Feel-Good Indie Artists (+1)
My top 7 current favourite indie musicians. Meet someone new. :-)
Inconveniences I Would Rather Have
On Wednesday, I found I was grieving all the things that Levi will not get to do that I wanted him to be able to do. I find that writing songs helps me deal with very stressful and emotional topics, so I wrote "Things I'll Never Do". Here is a quick scratch recording on a video for this song.
All That's Left is to Love
Wow, yesterday's post about how Christians treat the LGBTQ community has sure generated a lot of great, constructive discussion (a little here and a LOT on Facebook), which is exactly what I hoped it would do. The comments have provided me with some more thought-food to chew on, and I hope it has done the same for many of the people engaged in the conversation.
Two Exciting Announcements
"Let Me Love" won an award, and "The Honey Tree" knitting pattern has been released!
Prosody: Aristotle’s Gift to Songwriters
For week 2 of the Pat Pattison songwriting course through Coursera, we have been learning about prosody, or the elements that create unity in a song. Specifically, we have been learning how line length and the number of lines both affect prosody and what effects they have on the song in general.