i am officially opening myself to the energies and to the individuals necessary to create the Vision in its fullness of beauty and joy...

I normally open my newsletters with a few lines of lyric from a new song, or else from one that I’ve been recording. This month I felt called to open with a line I recently posted one late evening last week on ye almighty Facebook. Within a day of the post, I was greeted by no less than an entire handful of curiously synchronistic events—and all within a period of about thirty minutes—— doing wonders to reignite my wondering:  What if a simple intention, rooted firmly in unswaying belief, has more ability to construct our reality than even the most unrelenting hard work and striving? What if the balls to the wall mentality that has served—rather--underserved as the rickety foundation to a flawed and thoroughly unsustainable approach needn’t be our predestinately rocky, singular road to ‘success’? I think the answer probably resides, as it usually does, as a recipe somewhere within the grey, at the point where strangers meet:  a perpetually unfolding, intertwining tango between two apparent opposites, stillness and motion—— designed to work together yet, all too often, forced apart. If this is indeed true, it strikes me as agreeable news—— as I, for one, am far too stubborn to feel as though I have to work myself to death in order to create the life of my dreams.

But enough philosophizing for now—— allow me to share with you some of the recent news. Just the other day I received a phone call inviting me to perform in March on The Folk Show with Gene Shay on WXPN (…only the biggest, most widely syndicated college radio station in the whole Philly area!!)  And if the name doesn’t ring a bell, suffice to say that, as co-creator and 5o-years-and-running host of The Philadelphia Folk Fest, Gene is something of a local legend within the extended folk-music scene. To be invited to his show, and by the man himself, is a thrill perhaps second only to a six-year-old’s Christmas morning. Allow me to put it like this:  For years I have felt as though but a seed, lodged within in the pangs of becoming. To be finally experiencing the simple joys of light and air; the enthralling sensations of the many possibilities yet to come; is among the greatest affirmations of life I can envision. Such a long road still to go, en route to becoming the Mighty Oak—— but, roots are deepening, and buds have started to form.  :)
 
In other, interestingly juxtaposed news, The Golden Cage is finally finished, and can be heard/downloaded here. (No Facebook? Click here instead.) Hope you enjoy, and may our branches sway together sometime soon, preferably in one of the venues listed to the right…. ;)

Being the Becoming,
Orion