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October 22, 2011

Update from Guatemala

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 with half […]

Filed Under: Guatemala, Observations, Slideshow

September 8, 2011

Harmony for Humanity Interview

This is a recent interview and article published by Harmony for Humanity, please click the link below to read the rest of it. David LaMotte: Making a Difference From the Heart David LaMotte is being the change in so many ways that it’s almost impossible to keep up. LaMotte is an award-winning songwriter and peace […]

Filed Under: General Update, Guatemala, In the News, Music News, Observations, Peace Work, politics

September 5, 2011

Hummingbirds, Lorikeets & Me

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 birds […]

Filed Under: General Update, Music News, Observations, Slideshow

August 8, 2011

Thoughts on Peace and Power

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.

Filed Under: Observations, Peace Work, politics, Slideshow Tagged With: peace, Permanent State of War, Speaking Truth to Power, War

August 2, 2011

Lingua Musica interview

My long-time friend Barbie Angell interviewed me for a new video series called Lingua Musica. It was a good conversation, sitting by Lake Susan in Montreat, NC, and she just wrote to tell me the interview had gone live…

Filed Under: General Update, In the News, Music News, Observations, Peace Work, Slideshow

July 3, 2011

Interdependence Day

9AM, Indianapolis, IN This weekend the nation celebrates Independence Day, and Deanna and I celebrate Interdependence Day. I asked her to marry me on the Fourth of July in 2003, late at night on a nearly empty stretch of sand in St. Augustine, Florida. Fireworks were going off north and south down the beach, but […]

Filed Under: General Update, Observations, politics, Slideshow

April 2, 2011

My friend Edward

I was honored to play at a benefit concert for my buddy Edward Chapman Thursday night in Asheville, and it’s strange to see myself on Fox News… Edward was exonerated three years ago for a double murder. He spent fifteen years in prison, including thirteen on death row. He was the victim of suppression on […]

Filed Under: Music News, Observations, Peace Work Tagged With: death penalty, death row, Edward Chapman, exoneree, innocence project, NC Racial Justice Act, NCCC, North Carolina Council of Churches, People of Faith Against the Death Penalty, PFADP

January 19, 2011

Some really old news…

While digging around for some content for this spiffy new web site, I came across a collection of some of my oldest blogs.   I discovered recently that I started blogging just a few weeks before the word “weblog,” from which “blog” is derived, was ever used.  Apparently, I was a proto-blogger. If you’re really stuck […]

Filed Under: General Update, Music News, Observations

December 3, 2010

Rosa and me and you

Wednesday was the fifty-fifth anniversary of Rosa Parks’ arrest.  That event is a powerful reminder for me, not of the power of heroism, but of the power of day in and day out activism. For most of us, Rosa’s life was one day long.  Her real story is usually edited to fit our prevailing mythology— […]

Filed Under: Music News, Observations, Peace Work

October 31, 2010

The biggest myth of Democracy

My first shot at a video weblog, or vlog, as the kids say… a few thoughts on misconceptions of what democracy means and the importance of voting – or not voting – in mid-term elections.

Filed Under: Observations, Peace Work, politics

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Publishing with Chalice Press

May 2, 2022

Big news to share! I have signed a publishing deal with Chalice Press to publish a new edition of my book Worldchanging 101: Challenging the Myth of Powerlessness.  The new book, with significant … Read More

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