16 Jul 2020
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The Team

I’ve been spending too much time on the internet this quarantine.

We all have.

Maybe the virus is starting to fade away where you live, or coming closer to a hopeful close, but here in Alabama…oh my god we are so stupid.

I hate Facebook. I think we all do, to a degree? We love it and we hate it. We are addicted, and we wish we weren’t. The justification that it’s a way to keep connected keeps us checking in, while advertisements and algorithms adjust what we actually experience.

If we’re really just doing it to get together…why does someone get to make money off of that?

A group of us have been watching movies every night for the past 115 nights. We’ve been sharing memes. Recipes. Gardening mishaps and triumphs.

Why does facebook get to sell ads and capitalize on this?

Why do they get to choose what we see and more importantly…what we don’t see?

I know it’s hard to pull the plug but I can’t recommend it enough. A few of us have been trying Discord. No advertisements, no weird relatives, and no algorithm hiding your favourite people’s posts (continued at https://www.patreon.com/posts/39374465)

14 Jul 2020
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Why Attitude is More Valuable Than Aptitude

I watch people learn.

All day.

Every day.

That is my job. I’m a music teacher. I teach piano, guitar, voice and songwriting (which eventually turns into co-writing). 

At one point, I had 60 students. That’s 60 different people that I would get to watch, as they learned different concepts, week after week. 

My youngest student was five years old. 

My oldest student? 

74.

I’m a music “teacher,” but I don’t feel like I “teach” all day, every day. I present people with information, and then I watch, as they absorb it.

After all the lessons I’ve taught and all the different kinds of students that I have encountered, I started realizing a prevalent fact: 

It Didn’t Matter How Smart, Young, or Talented A Person Was.

What mattered the most was the kind of person they were.

What does that mean? 

In my experience…(continued here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/why-attitude-is-39073001)

05 Apr 2020
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Some Day

This is for my friend who’s a radiographer in the UK and just tested positive.

Some day

Some day

I’ll have a big old garden

I’ll grow whatever I want to grow

One day 

I’ll go wherever I want to go

Don’t ask me where now

Cause I don’t know

If we make it out alive

I won’t waste any more time

Some day

Can I have one more Sunday

With you

Some day

Cause I have one more Sunday

With you 

And something to do

Somewhere

There’s a world we were meant to know

I swear I’ll get it right this time

One day

It won’t feel so out of control

We’ll take a deep breath and walk outside

If we make it out alive

I won’t waste any more time

Some day

Can I have one more Sunday

With you

Some day

Cause I have one more Sunday

With you 

And something to do

Listen here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/some-day-demo-35670010https://www.patreon.com/posts/some-day-demo-35670010

10 Mar 2020
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Strange Days

Here’s a clip of what I’ve been up to.

I wanted to be one of those people who was posting and reposting: “just wash your hands!”

Pretty early on I caught myself thinking about how we don’t always have all the facts in this country. People are more concerned about their own narrative, how the economy is doing, and getting re-elected. The President was recently at the CDC, and mentioned that Fox News had stated the current number of infected as he was getting off the plane. You’re AT the CDC, bro.

I watched the news closely, with my upcoming travel dates pending…

Continued here.