Really cool to read through and find so much awesomeness added to WordPress 3.6 while I was gone. I should take three weeks off more often. — Andrew Nacin (@nacin) April 3, 2013 This post tests WordPress’ Twitter Embeds feature.
This is a song for the end of days. Rest your weary head. Take a long look, steady your gaze, Remember how you bled. Take a good breath and let it go Deep into the darkness. Never regret what you didn’t know. This is a time for yes. chorus You will stand again And yes […]
Yesterday Kenito asked for specifics that support my position on the “responsible citizen” remaining critical of his own propensity for criticism, and I woke up thinking about when I first got exposed to the value of digging deeper and not just pointing the finger. I went to a New England boarding school for high school […]
This week I was honored with a chance to talk to two of my living heroes Mr. Tavis Smiley and the venerable Dr. Cornel West for their weekly Radio Broadcast “Smiley and West” from Public Radio International. Although I expect my next conversation with these two fine gentlemen to be about my work, this week […]
Jazz singer and fierce, self-made woman René Marie was featured on NPR’s homepage today, along with a clip from her controversial rendering of the “Lift Every Voice and Sing” as sung to the tune of “The Star Spangled Banner” from her folk/jazz/blues/gospel/freedom suite “Voice of My Beautiful Country.” Read the full story here. I’m glad […]
OK! I am celebrating people! For once, my typical creative-person angst has chosen to subside and right now I am deep in the throws of a total anti-crisis. I’m sure my life-long torrential pursuit of purpose and meaning will re-surface in its usual incarnation of self-doubt and ennui, but in this moment, I feel like […]
Oh industry You’re so damn mean to me You feel we lack Compatibility But I stand Yes I stand At the door Oh industry How you dismiss me Cause we never seem to match Stylistically But I still stand At the door knocking. Oh government With all your money spent How can you plan For […]
daddy you sure showed me how to be a model citizen i found out how to get out everything i need from within too bad you only see through the barrel of your gun i wish you had a wider view but am i the only one? we’ve turned our dream into our machine which […]
we paved the day in passion and found a cool dry place we paved the day in golden ash and found an empty space we paved the day in glory and found our reckless shame we paved the day in tangerine it tasted all the same tangerine we journeyed over distant seas to find our […]
Verse 1 In the city of unseen prophets Just over the hill There’s an army of vagabond watchmen At the citadel In secret they walk among us Hidden in plain view But if they happen see something in us They could reveal a thing or two She told me I was trying to live easy […]