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Summer Still on Earth

Summer Still on Earth

Solstice was a few days ago and we are now fully in the season of autumn! I can taste it...
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Guest Post by Converging Consciousness Collaborator Dana Boyle

Guest Post by Converging Consciousness Collaborator Dana Boyle

I asked Botanical Painter and Fierce Environmental Activist, Dana Boyle, to talk about our current collaboration: "When Catherine Dalton reached...
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Ummm… ok… sure…

Ummm… ok… sure…

As an artist, I feel like I’m always collaborating with my muse. That voice that gives me compositional and lyrics...
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Demolishing and Building Anew: Making Meaning out of Chaos

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?...
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Converging Consciousness: A Plant & Human Co-Creation 

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...
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Music and Poetry as a Way Forward

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...
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Finding Kindness

Finding Kindness

In the following blog, I will be talking about the war in Ukraine. Feel free to make a decision that...
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How Kate Bush Saved Me!

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...
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Telling the Whole Story: Bold and Radical Lyrics

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...
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They did what? Missing Stories of Powerful Women from the American Suffragist Movement

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...
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Living into Liminality: Five Tips for Traversing Transition

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...
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Georgia O’Keeffe is following me

Georgia O’Keeffe is following me

I will admit I have a favorite visual artist, it’s Georgia O’Keeffe, hands down! AND she’s following me. Well, technically...
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From the Front Porch to the Stage

From the Front Porch to the Stage

Recently, I’ve taken up sitting on my front porch in the evening with a cup of tea and my big...
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What Does it Mean to Be Inclusive?

What Does it Mean to Be Inclusive?

I was recently asked to respond to the following questions for an article in the American Choral Directors Association of...
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“Only Kindness” to be Premiered in Documentary Film

“Only Kindness” to be Premiered in Documentary Film

"Only Kindness" to be Premiered in Documentary Film What does it mean to be kind? How do we know what kindness...
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I’m Inspired

I’m Inspired

I'm Inspired! I'm not gonna lie — it's still rough out there in the world and in my office. I'm...
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Music is Magical: It holds our pain and sorrow, transforming it into radical love!

Music is Magical: It holds our pain and sorrow, transforming it into radical love!

Music Can Help. In March, just before everything shut down, I was sitting in a church at a Cleveland Chamber...
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Walking Together

Walking Together

View Score & Purchase Walking Together weaves together prose and poetry on the topic of cultural experience with and original...
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Bluets

Bluets

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... We are so pleased...
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Composing is Hard…

Composing is Hard…

I'm excited to announce that I’ve been composing a lot recently! That might sound a bit odd to you, I...
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Summer Still on Earth

Summer Still on Earth

Solstice was a few days ago and we are now fully in the season of autumn! I can taste it...
Read More
Guest Post by Converging Consciousness Collaborator Dana Boyle

Guest Post by Converging Consciousness Collaborator Dana Boyle

I asked Botanical Painter and Fierce Environmental Activist, Dana Boyle, to talk about our current collaboration: "When Catherine Dalton reached...
Read More
Ummm… ok… sure…

Ummm… ok… sure…

As an artist, I feel like I’m always collaborating with my muse. That voice that gives me compositional and lyrics...
Read More
Demolishing and Building Anew: Making Meaning out of Chaos

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?...
Read More
Converging Consciousness: A Plant & Human Co-Creation 

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...
Read More
Music and Poetry as a Way Forward

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...
Read More
Finding Kindness

Finding Kindness

In the following blog, I will be talking about the war in Ukraine. Feel free to make a decision that...
Read More
How Kate Bush Saved Me!

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...
Read More
Telling the Whole Story: Bold and Radical Lyrics

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...
Read More
They did what? Missing Stories of Powerful Women from the American Suffragist Movement

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...
Read More
Living into Liminality: Five Tips for Traversing Transition

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...
Read More
Georgia O’Keeffe is following me

Georgia O’Keeffe is following me

I will admit I have a favorite visual artist, it’s Georgia O’Keeffe, hands down! AND she’s following me. Well, technically...
Read More
From the Front Porch to the Stage

From the Front Porch to the Stage

Recently, I’ve taken up sitting on my front porch in the evening with a cup of tea and my big...
Read More
What Does it Mean to Be Inclusive?

What Does it Mean to Be Inclusive?

I was recently asked to respond to the following questions for an article in the American Choral Directors Association of...
Read More
“Only Kindness” to be Premiered in Documentary Film

“Only Kindness” to be Premiered in Documentary Film

"Only Kindness" to be Premiered in Documentary Film What does it mean to be kind? How do we know what kindness...
Read More
I’m Inspired

I’m Inspired

I'm Inspired! I'm not gonna lie — it's still rough out there in the world and in my office. I'm...
Read More
Music is Magical: It holds our pain and sorrow, transforming it into radical love!

Music is Magical: It holds our pain and sorrow, transforming it into radical love!

Music Can Help. In March, just before everything shut down, I was sitting in a church at a Cleveland Chamber...
Read More
Walking Together

Walking Together

View Score & Purchase Walking Together weaves together prose and poetry on the topic of cultural experience with and original...
Read More
Bluets

Bluets

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... We are so pleased...
Read More
Composing is Hard…

Composing is Hard…

I'm excited to announce that I’ve been composing a lot recently! That might sound a bit odd to you, I...
Read More
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