Pick the Apple From The Tree

My 1998 music CD, Pick the Apple from the Tree, went out of print about 2009, ‘cept for a few copies New Leaf Distribution has that merchants can order. So I burned a few copies at home to sell, nothing fancy, no art work (the art work here is only on the original liner), but the music is there. It is on sale at www.outlawbunny.etsy.com

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I Call My Tumor Fred

Star Child by FDGJune, 2010: I’m youtubed!!!! It’s at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Tpu9WLXwdA   I did it b/c want to share audio from my home recording studio. I’ve no vid experience but don’t want you to have to look at a blank screen, so gave the vid my best (which is obviously mega-limited, and makes clear that, yes, I am a screw ball). Also, I wanted to show the lyrics for the song in case they are unintelligible. My vid skill set = typing lyrics and printing them on cards to hold up in front of the camera! 🙂  Be gentle: I recorded the song after playing mando less than 2 years.

The song is “I Call My Tumor Fred.” I wrote it before I learned my tumor is benign. Not to worry: It is harmless. I only have to keep an eye on it, just in case. After an MRI showed a tumor, the song helped me thru three weeks until the doctor told me what was what. And then more weeks while I waited for a neurologist’s confirmation. When I sang the song to a friend, she told me that people who name their tumors are far more likely to survive. I bet that’s true! And I LOVE my home studio!! What I’m producing may be lo fi, but it is healing for me and fun.

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What My Blog Is Like

A wisecrack can crack open the cosmos. Then we can rearrange it, make a better home for our species and the other beings in this galaxy.

My blog’s pretty freewheeling; it deals with everything from environmental issues to the self-help movement to makeup tips. And I might talk about the environment or self-help via makeup tips. However, there’s a fundamental logic to my approach:

Some people no longer have purely spiritual, political, environmental, or self-help dialogs. They’re talking about a million different topics, simultaneously and thru the lens of a million different disciplines.

They want it all. And they want it all woven, every last part of it, into an inclusive, sustainable, joyful whole, by threads of love, careful analysis, and – – one of the points of my work is to prove that the following addition is not contradictory – – celebratory chaos.

Please, break out of the box labeled, “You can’t discuss this! You’re not authorized (by education, gender, class, whatever).” Girls and boys, talk about it all! In any context!

You’ll find my writing tends to include suggestions, geared toward helping you both have the life you want and make a difference in the world. These ideas, all my jokes aside, represent years of successful work with clients and students, so, hey, do try out a few of my ideas – – sitting on the page, they can’t change your life; you gotta use ’em.

I blog about once a week. Come on by. Please comment.

Hmm, I shouldn’t have said, “All my jokes aside.” They’re part of all those years of work.

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