by Greg M | Dec 30, 2020 | Adventures in Living, News, Releases, The Creative Life, Working That Studio
The COVID-19 pandemic alone was enough to make 2020 a hellish year for so many of us. So many thousands of loved ones have been lost. Our cultures have lost so many musical heroes (whether to the virus or otherwise): Neil Peart, Lyle Mays, Joseph Shabalala, Eddie van...
by Greg M | Jul 22, 2020 | Adventures in Living, The Creative Life
For our fourth Boundary Waters trip, we decided to base-camp on a lake with several others close by and easily reached by portage, to give us lots of day-trip options. As it turned out, our “home” lake was such a puzzle that warnings about even experienced map-readers...
by Greg M | May 7, 2019 | Intrinsic Beauty, The Creative Life
In the first installment of this series, I called out Arvo Pärt, Steve Roach, Jack or Jive and Lucette Bourdin for their inspiration. Here are three more of my kindred spirits. Eric Tingstad & Nancy Rumbel We go way back… I first discovered Eric’s solo guitar...
by eyes cast down | Aug 3, 2015 | Adventures in Living
Vacation time! We spent a delightful week (entirely offline and unplugged) chilling in the Boulder Lake Campground, part of the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, in northern Wisconsin. After the long drive up from Chicago, the last hour was a joy, winding along...
by eyes cast down | Apr 30, 2014 | Poems
Early in this blog’s life, I posted five poems from the mid-’90s, which I collectively call Divinations (after the book that would have contained them all). If you missed them, feel free to filter using the “Poems” tag, and there they are....