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The Written Expression


In 1996 a girlfriend gave me my first journal to "write thoughts, poems and songs." Starting with that first journal and sifting through every notepad or scrap piece of paper that I tucked away thereafter, here is a catalog of ramblings, musings, song starts and diatribes born from the heart.


My Letter to Daniel Quinn

When I was 19 I read Ishmael, a novel by Daniel Quinn. It 1989 it had been selected out of 2500 submissions to be the recipient of the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award. Ted Turner created the fellowship to be awarded to a work of fiction offering positive solutions to global problems. Anyways, I read it and instantly fell in love with it. It was completely outside the realm of anything I had considered
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My Letter to Daniel Quinn

When I was 19 I read Ishmael, a novel by Daniel Quinn. It 1989 it had been selected out of 2500 submissions to be the recipient of the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award. Ted Turner created the fellowship to be awarded to a work of fiction offering positive solutions to global problems. Anyways, I read it and instantly fell in love with it. It was completely outside the realm of anything I had considered
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My Letter to Daniel Quinn

When I was 19 I read Ishmael, a novel by Daniel Quinn. It 1989 it had been selected out of 2500 submissions to be the recipient of the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award. Ted Turner created the fellowship to be awarded to a work of fiction offering positive solutions to global problems. Anyways, I read it and instantly fell in love with it. It was completely outside the realm of anything I had considered
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From Me To Youth

When I was 19 I read a novel called Ishmael by Daniel Quinn that changed my view of life completely. After reading several of his other books I wrote him a letter to which he replied by telephone, inviting me to travel to Houston, Texas, to study with him. I quickly packed up my belongings, said goodbye to my family and friends and left for Texas where I spent 5 months engaged in the most wonderfully
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From Me To Youth

When I was 19 I read a novel called Ishmael by Daniel Quinn that changed my view of life completely. After reading several of his other books I wrote him a letter to which he replied by telephone, inviting me to travel to Houston, Texas, to study with him. I quickly packed up my belongings, said goodbye to my family and friends and left for Texas where I spent 5 months engaged in the most wonderfully
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From Me To Youth

When I was 19 I read a novel called Ishmael by Daniel Quinn that changed my view of life completely. After reading several of his other books I wrote him a letter to which he replied by telephone, inviting me to travel to Houston, Texas, to study with him. I quickly packed up my belongings, said goodbye to my family and friends and left for Texas where I spent 5 months engaged in the most wonderfully
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The Green Music Revolution

The Sound of ChangeThe Green Music RevolutionOf all the legacies we leave, it’s those created by our lifestyle choices that have the farthest-reaching effects. That’s why the 21st century global community faces compound challenges resulting directly from the shortsightedness of generations prior to ours.Our generation is significant because science has afforded us the clarity to see the
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The Green Music Revolution

The Sound of ChangeThe Green Music RevolutionOf all the legacies we leave, it’s those created by our lifestyle choices that have the farthest-reaching effects. That’s why the 21st century global community faces compound challenges resulting directly from the shortsightedness of generations prior to ours.Our generation is significant because science has afforded us the clarity to see the
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The Green Music Revolution

The Sound of ChangeThe Green Music RevolutionOf all the legacies we leave, it’s those created by our lifestyle choices that have the farthest-reaching effects. That’s why the 21st century global community faces compound challenges resulting directly from the shortsightedness of generations prior to ours.Our generation is significant because science has afforded us the clarity to see the
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Footprints

it beats as i standsteady but not sturdythere's a hint of weaknessit comes from feelinglike the wind the changes the landwhen i run, it raceseither i struggle to keep paceor maybe it's slower than me right nowi lose my breathebut don;t tiretoo much to keep me busyi laugh in the morning whether or not the pillow next to me is full with the head of anotherand shudder beneath the coversbut i'm not coldin
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