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June 11, 2015

Eight places left at my retreat — want to come?

I have been invited by others to lead retreats and conferences in many states and on several continents for many years, but I have never before designed my own event so that I can give people who come for the weekend the richest and most wonderful experience I can come up with. Until now. This […]

Filed Under: General Update, Music News, Peace Work

February 20, 2015

Rosa Parks’ OTHER arrest—Feb. 22, 1956

Almost no one knows about the second time Rosa Parks was arrested, and that context changes her story significantly.

Filed Under: Peace Work, politics Tagged With: activist, activists, arrest, creative non-violence, hero, movement, narrative, nonviolence, organizing, Rosa Parks, story, Worldchanging, Worldchanging 101

October 11, 2014

Free Live Webcast of release party!

Here’s great last-minute news! For those of you who can’t join us in person on Oct. 12, 2014 at the White Horse, Black Mountain, to celebrate the release of my new book, Worldchanging 101: Challenging the Myth of Powerlessness, we will now be live streaming the event via ConcertWindow.com.  I’ll be playing a few songs […]

Filed Under: General Update, Music News, Peace Work

August 28, 2014

Celebrating the new book!

I don’t think I’ve felt this excited, anxious and anticipatory since Mason was born! After four and a half years of writing, and a fairly intense year of editing, design and layout, my new book, Worldchanging 101, is in the proverbial oven, and about to be picked up by the proverbial stork (which has 18 […]

Filed Under: Music News, Peace Work

August 28, 2014

How to Clean Dirty Water with a Guitar

My newest guitar is a Taylor Holden Village GS Mini.  I love it for lots of reasons, not the least of which is where it came from — and where it’s going.  This little instrument is doing a lot of good in the world, and that good is not limited to the music being played […]

Filed Under: Music News, Peace Work

May 2, 2014

Worldchanging 101: Challenging the Myth of Powerlessness

As I write this, we are over half way through a Kickstarter campaign for my new book, arriving in August (assuming the Kickstarter effort works!). The book is called Worldchanging 101: Challenging the Myth of Powerlessness. It takes a look at some of the stories we tell about how change happens and how it doesn’t, and how […]

Filed Under: General Update, Peace Work Tagged With: kickstarter, Worldchanging 101

January 12, 2014

Peace Is Not Placidity (Part 1 of 3)

This article is part one of a three-part series called How We Get Peace Wrong. Having just come through the holiday season and launched a new year here in the United States, we have heard the word ‘peace’ a great deal lately. We have wished it to each other on greeting cards and sung it […]

Filed Under: Peace Work

October 7, 2013

Worldchanging in your town…

It’s been a whirlwind of a day with a few meetings related to releasing my new ‘Best Of’ CD, some writing for an online community, two connections with longtime friends, meetings with the folks at Kudzu, the design company I’m working with these days, to finalize this cool flier right here—–> …and a talk at […]

Filed Under: General Update, Music News, Peace Work Tagged With: David LaMotte, flier, keynote, social change, social justice, speaking, workshop, Worldchanging, Worldchanging 101

August 25, 2013

Why I Am Changing My Vacation Plans

August 26, 2013 Dear Columbia City Council Members, I am writing to tell you why I am changing my vacation plans this week. I brought my son Mason, not quite five, to the EdVenture Museum in Columbia last year on an afternoon road trip to the coast. He’s young (and was even younger then), and […]

Filed Under: Observations, Peace Work, politics, Uncategorized Tagged With: boycott, Columbia, homeless, homelessness, SC, South Carolina

July 22, 2013

Just One Candle

Here is the lyric to a new song.

Filed Under: Music News, Peace Work, poetry, Uncategorized Tagged With: Aimee Buchanan, David LaMotte, Francis of Assisi, Just One Candle, Pontamina Choir of Sarajevo, song lyric

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It’s always nice to visit my old guitar case at It’s always nice to visit my old guitar case at the Grey Eagle. So good to hear David Wilcox and a bunch of other great friends. Just about to contribute a song I’ve never played on an electric guitar on an electric guitar I’ve never played before. What could possible go wrong? :-)
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"The cover art is by artist Scott Neely, who doodled this guitar drawing while actually sitting at a concert of mine, listening to me play my instrumental song Shadows."
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