She landed yesterday. This little sleeping ball of feather, which I held in my hands for so long wondering if she would fly, came back down for awhile. I had let her go, not knowing if she’d come back at all, in an old, historic California theater some time ago. She looked like a collection […]
Singer/songwriter/author Alex Woodard has released a new song, “Breathe The Sky,” which features New Found Glory frontman Jordan Pundik on vocals. The song, which premiered today on Billboard, is taken from For The Sender: Love Is (Not A Feeling)—the second installment in Woodard’s music/book project, which is due for release February 25. Pre-orders are available […]
New Found Glory’s Jordan Pundik & Songwriter/Author Alex Woodard Team Up for ‘Breathe the Sky’: Exclusive Premiere The Americana-influenced track tells the story of a man’s unflinching optimism while dying from Lou Gehrig’s Disease. “FOR THE SENDER: Love Is (Not a Feeling)” – the second installment of the ongoing music-meets-literature project of Alex Woodard […]
The fire was starting to die last night when I thought about how we sometimes make decisions as antidotes. Some of us get married as an antidote to being down at the end of the bar at closing time, looking for someone, anyone, after everyone else has gone home. We sometimes run away from these […]
He didn’t bring the trash cans out this Sunday. He always did. For everyone. He would brave barking dogs (mine included) and uncertain house guests to open gates throughout the neighborhood and bring the trash cans out to the street for the early Monday morning pick up. Some people called him ‘slow.’ Others less sensitive […]
Threads in a Blanket: Creativity and Healing in the Face of Violence by Vanessa Contopulos Original Article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vanessa-contopulos/threads-in-a-blanket-violence_b_4437142.html John Paul Lederach has worked all over the world in conflict areas as a mediator and companion to people rebuilding lives and communities after the violence of war. In his book The Moral Imagination, he suggests that […]