Beneath the Rush

A quiet spiritual reflection on finding the sacred signal beneath the noise of daily life.

Hot Fire

(Study 12) Hot Fire lives within Pondering Eternity, a series of songs exploring proximity, tension, and what emerges between presence and distance. We move toward warmth — toward light, toward each other.But closeness carries risk. Too near, and something in us changes.Too far, and something in us goes cold. The song sits in that space […]

Before I Knew Better (Or Maybe I Still Don’t)

Portrait of Buckminster Fuller in his home in Pacific Palisades, California, November 1982.

I came across a statement I wrote in 1983 during my MFA at Iowa, shortly after interviewing Buckminster Fuller. Reading it now, I can see both the influence and the idealism. Some of it feels naive. Some of it still feels like a direction I haven’t let go of.

Blurred Lines Between Reality and Imagination

girl on sheet music and ocean

Editor’s note: This profile originally appeared in First Coast Senior Living on October 6, 2025. The article was written as part of a feature on creative lives in St. Augustine and Northeast Florida.

The Artist as Mad Dervish

camel and female in surreal landscape

A reflection on painting as a process of chaos, discovery, and restraint—where the artist begins in wild motion and gradually learns to listen to what the canvas is trying to become.