Monthly Archives: September 2022

Short and simple!

This song has a couple of origins.

There was a time, even before Andrew was born, when I felt like Erin and I were the two who would always be together.

During that time I had an actual dream where the two of us were the only people left on the planet.

My relationship with her mother was fraught, insecure and I secretly prayed we would find a way to split up with me keeping Erin. Though that didn’t come to pass until after Andrew was born, I always just assumed that Erin would always be there.

Then she wasn’t.

The other source is the Chronicles of Narnia. I loved reading those books and loved reading them to my kids. Erin was the first one to get that treatment. So all the imagery about the lion, creation and calling the stars home is from The Magician’s Nephew and The Last Battle.

This is the most positive of the many songs I’ve written about grief.

All the graphics were made by me using WomboDream, an AI illustration app.

I ain’t ‘fraid of no goats.

I made these using starryai and the prompt “goats playing guitar on the street corner “ just to make the visual pun that sounds like Ghostbusters.

My mantra memory was on the fritz. I spelled and pronounced in error. Gate gate pāragate pārasaṃgate bodhi svāhā. There should be no “A” sound before “paragate”. Sorry ’bout that.

Gate gate pāragate- Gone gone gone beyond

pārasaṃgate- Gone beyond beyond (gone even further or to the furthest)

Bodhi svaha!- Hail the goer! (or, Hail the awakened!)

In 1971 the Sons of Champlin released Follow Your Heart, a great album. The shortest song on the record is this one. It’s super fun to play.

All the graphics were made by me using AI art generator, WomboDream.

A great song by Lisa Germano, one of many that speak to me loudly.

My cover is, of course, subpar, but I enjoyed making it immensely.