singer-songwriter // latest projects are "Make An Honest Stand" (EP) and @songandstorypod
Dayton, OH
Joined July 2010
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For all who have kids and have been feeling the social pressure and wrestling w/ the issue and might need/want to hear this:
your child does not need a smartphone.
"And while social media has eroded the art of association throughout society, it may be leaving its deepest and most enduring marks on adolescents." –– @JonHaidt
theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
"Only here at the monastery, I stopped hating. Last Sunday, I even prayed for Putin."
bbc.com/news/av/world-europe…
What we have the right to do.
What we are inclined to do.
What we may want to do.
What we ought to do.
Which is the road least traveled?
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Kevin Heider retweeted
"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
(Viktor Frankl)
War is always a defeat for humanity. Last August I put together a special episode of @songandstorypod that chronicles the evolution of my thoughts on the morality of nuclear war. It's a sonic trip through history. And it feels increasingly apropos.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
Kevin Heider retweeted
For the Annuciation today, my poem “On the Feast of the Annunciation” from @WindhoverMag 2021, vol 25.1.
I was perusing the used CDs at a @2ndandcharles this afternoon when I found my own album. It was right in between the @googoodolls and @natimbruglia.
Is this what "making it" feels like?
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"If I have ever imitated anything good for the sake of my God whom I love, I ask that he grant me to be able to shed my blood with these converts and captives—even were I to lack a grave for burial, or my dead body were to be miserably torn apart limb from limb..."
— St. Patrick
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"...the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived Faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs." — George Eliot
A friend's wife came to the U.S. from Poland as a child. Her family immigrated in the '80s. I once asked her, "What sticks out to you, as a kind of culture-shock memory?"
"Butter," she said. "Going to the grocery store and seeing so much butter, and so many different kinds."
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"okay but be aware that if you deny body sensors access for the Google Play Services app, then basic features of your device may no longer function as intended" — 𝚝̶𝚑̶𝚎̶ ̶𝚍̶𝚎̶𝚟̶𝚒̶𝚕̶ my phone
We can talk about politics & hyperpolarization. We can talk about vaccines. We can talk about kids, smartphones & how kids shouldn't have smartphones. We can talk about all that gets lost when we limit discourse to 288 characters. But under no circumstances will we talk about Bru
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"I like this song fifty hundred percent" — my 6 y/o
open.spotify.com/track/4nI1O…
