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Fiction, Tunes, Teaching, & Parenting:

Notes from Somewhere Inside a Poetry Sabbatical

Ten days (I kid you not) after my first child was born, I received a phone call from a press to whom, several months prior, I’d submitted my second poetry manuscript.

We’d like to publish your book!

s / s / s (Sufjan Stevens, Serengeti & Son Lux)

We had it good, didn’t we?
We had it good, didn’t we?
Didn’t we?

The questions we ask ourselves so much. The questions that become threads running thru seasons.

Saboteur by Lifeboat Etiquette

These stories…they are everywhere. Around us in analog. Drowned out by too many channels of static and sound. Images and moving pictures. Digitized.

Lifeboat Etiquette (Ryan Hollen) is the checkout man at your local grocer. These stories–they are in front of him everyday. They are in the eyes of the folk buying the eggs.

Storydwelling

Vibrant.  Deeply Rooted.  Profound. Bold.  Incredibly approachable. These are the descriptors that crossed my mind when I first encountered Heatherlyn in the midst of the spiritual community I know as home in Denver.  She joined us on the morning of Father’s Day to add her gifts and perspective to our liturgy.

Jay J Matott & The Arctic

What do you say about some albums? What can you say about them, these albums. These albums you can’t stop listening to. These albums – that if they were in an actual physical format – they would be wearing out. These albums that wouldn’t have left your cassette deck for weeks and weeks.