BlogMusings and updates from David... This is the year-end letter to PEG donors telling them where their money went. I thought I’d share it with the rest of you, too. At the end of the year, it’s powerful to look back and see what has happened. . . . → Read More: What we did in Guatemala in 2011
 I’m thrilled to announce that Rachel Wilson has begun working as my new booking and logistics manager. I met Rachel last year in Raleigh and was immediately impressed by her. I’m so grateful that she has elected to work with me and keep things organized around here (you know how artists can be…). To . . . → Read More: Welcome Rachel!
As many of us do this time of year, I looked back over 2011 recently, and I was amazed to see all that had happened. Some of it has been hard and some has been thrilling, but I definitely feel alive. I was theoretically taking it easier this year in order . . . → Read More: Looking Back, Looking Forward
 The Abraham Jam is a free interfaith event at Duke University’s Page Auditorium featuring world-class professional musicians and poets. . . . → Read More: Abraham Jam
I have been in or on a pretty amazing array of motorized vehicles in the last 24 hours, from public buses (a.k.a. ‘chicken buses,’ retired school buses from the US, often painted up in classic Latin style, but sometimes with the names of American counties still painted on the side) to a taxi . . . → Read More: Update from Guatemala
 I found this poem searching through a file in my computer called “Works In Progress.” I had forgotten about it entirely, but thought it might be worth sharing… . . . → Read More: “I’ve Never Liked Politics”
I’m honored to get to share the stage with Pete Seeger, David Amram and other fine people in New York City this Sunday afternoon, on the tenth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. I can think of no better way to spend that day, or people with whom to spend it. The event . . . → Read More: Playing with Pete
 I’m sitting in the living room on a cloudy day listening to Bill Mize’s incredible acoustic guitar CD ‘Tender Explorations’ and feeling grateful to my nearly-three-year-old Mason for his bird feeder obsession. Because he loves the feeders (yes, the feeders, not so much the birds), we have several hanging, stuck to windows, etc. The . . . → Read More: Hummingbirds, Lorikeets & Me
On April 9, 2011 a group of people who are concerned about the course of the seemingly endless “War on Terror” gathered to hear impressive speakers, including several veterans, an active duty soldier, activists and an investigative journalist, bring perspective to the current state of affairs. A live orchestra performed between presenters, and excerpts of speeches from Dr. King and Dwight Eisenhower were offered by actors, speaking in character. . . . → Read More: Thoughts on Peace and Power
 Greetings from Holden Beach, NC, where I’m spending a few days with most of my family celebrating my Dad’s eightieth trip around the sun. Mason and Deanna are napping, so I thought I would take a few minutes to write a quick update. When they wake up, it will be time to teach . . . → Read More: Peace, Perigrinations, and Pete Seeger
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