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WHAT IF
What if, instead of voicing frustrations free of filter, we did so with affinities? How different would life be if our greatest fear was not rejection of an offering but that the Good in another should live unwitnessed or acknowledged? How would our world be if we shared our higher sentiments without reserve and […]
REFLECTION IN ASH
“The presence of the Lord implies liberty, the one follows the other; for the more intimately present the Lord is, the more free is man; that is, in proportion as he is in the love of good and truth he acts freely. Such is the nature of the Lord’s influx by means of angels. […]
REAPER
“Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the Devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly hosts, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits, who prowl about the world […]
FOR BEATRICE (INSTRUMENTAL)
“ This song is “For Beatrice”—”The Giver of Blessings”—by whom Dante was inspired, and for whom “The Divine Comedy” is devoted. It is She that leads Dante into Paradise and shows him where Virgil and Reason cannot go. Until this song, I never came close to expressing a sound in mind through instrument. […]
A PRAYER IN HOPE
It lived on day in the Second Canticle of Spring, its song voiced by birds, messengers on wing, in proclamation of arrival to new and promised life. She departed on day when the first of spring shone green through recession of winter’s covering snow; appearing in the low bases and shortest blades of wintered […]
THE ALCHEMIST (featuring Fernando Bellini)
This song is special to me for the connection created, and surprises shown from exchanges in ideas and ourselves while working together on a sound for its beginning lyrics. I posted the original lyrics on a forum hoping for feedback and the possible blessing of finding someone to help bring the song to life. […]
A DIGITAL LIFE
The world will not miss our digital presence. The existence of such presence is, itself, little more than distraction to the true act of living. In such engagement, we defer life in favor of fast, synthetic absorptions. We affix hopes of impression upon images and words posted for affect, stimulating mind and emotive […]