Don’t Drink The Water ~ A troubadour of the first order.

An Acoustic Evening With Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds At The MGM Grand

Matthews is a hell of a showman. I have a number of live versions of this song done fully-kitted out with a full complement of musicians. He and his band let it all hang out on stage and, as they say, the crowd goes wild. Which makes the essential power […]

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We’re too good to be this political ~ Be the change you want to see in the world

The Second Book of the Tao, Stephen Mitchell (trans)

My first mistake today was climbing into the bathtub and picking up the May 31st, 2010 edition of Canada’s weekly news magazine, Macleans, rather than the copy of Stephen Mitchell’s The Second Book of the Tao, in which I’d thought to have a nice, long spiritual soak along with the […]

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Courage

The Tragically Hip ~ Fully Completely

I started a post about courage, featuring this song, a couple or three weeks ago. It’s still sitting in the drafts folder. The Tragically Hip are a favourite Canadian band from the late ’80s and early ’90s, a time when I, and many other Canadians, considered them the best rock […]

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