Summer Still on Earth
Solstice was a few days ago and we are now fully in the season of autumn! I can taste it in the air and see it in the colors of…
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As an artist, I feel like I’m always collaborating with my muse. That voice that gives me compositional and lyrics ideas I never would have come up with myself! She’s…
Demolishing and Building Anew: Making Meaning out of Chaos
What is the relationship between demolishing and building new? Or, here’s a related question: How does Catherine deal with change? The answer to the second question is, Not so well, which…
Converging Consciousness: A Plant & Human Co-Creation
View Score & Purchase (coming soon!) About A couple of years ago, I listened. I listened to a small voice that asked me to tune in more deeply to our…
Music and Poetry as a Way Forward
I’ve been hearing from folks recently that they feel a bit helpless. We go about our lives each day, as we must, because to shut down completely doesn’t help. As…
Finding Kindness
In the following blog, I will be talking about the war in Ukraine. Feel free to make a decision that feels right to you about continuing to read. March 2-4,…
How Kate Bush Saved Me!
One thing I love about hanging out with people, especially people of varying ages, is that I get inspired! Because where do composers get ideas? Anywhere and everywhere they can!…
Telling the Whole Story: Bold and Radical Lyrics
Why do we know more about Alice Paul’s contemporary, Ghandi, than about Alice Paul? The Alice Paul who put women’s suffrage on the front page of newspapers, making it impossible…
They did what? Missing Stories of Powerful Women from the American Suffragist Movement
It’s kind of odd to think about now, but when I was growing up, I really did not question the role models that were put in front of me. Even…
Living into Liminality: Five Tips for Traversing Transition
I’ve been thinking recently about the concept of liminality. How do we emotionally traverse liminal time? Transition can make us feel uneasy and the sense of being in transition day-in…