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DECORUM GARDEN- Berkeley Plantation

                                                                                                                             Decorum Garden Long limbs ceremonial swaying  branches bend to the James ...this river floats the sun. Song sings on winds wing and whips through the path of flowers fragrant birth. History engulfs and breaths throu...

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Washington Monument w the United States Capital in background- 9/2009

Street Dogs, Pirates Press 10th anniversary San Francisco, Ca 10/25/14

On Music...

How do I feel about music? well, since I can remember it has been the one and only constant. Memories of gospel hymns sang Acapella, 8th row, right side church pew. Watching my mother clean the house and listening to Elvis, or some Patsy Cline. Watching the Lawrence Welk show with my grandmother... playing vinyl at her house. My grandfather being a musician who played, banjo, fiddle, piano and guitar. My grandmother recording me when I was five... "what do you want to be when you grow up?", me- "a singer". My mother forcing me to read my father a song I had written in the 5th grade, and then him explaining to me that music is what he called " a pipe dream". Never knew what that meant until I was older, just that it wasn't something he wanted me to pursue. I never got the singing lessons I asked for in middle school, but I sang anyway. I sang in church, I sang in music elective classes, performing arts, etc. I sang in and out of a few bands over the ye...
Tongues tied like Dark ashen snakes Movements broken Paths twisted through Fires garden Roji embers to Dance across While drops of dew Entice a romance Shadows fear Etched in stone