“Station” featuring Krishna Das

I've re-released "Station," a song I recorded with my friend, Krishna Das many years ago, as a digital single. It's now available to purchase on Bandcamp, and to stream on Apple Music, Spotify, and pretty much everywhere else.  Please check it out. It's been nearly two decades since I wrote the song, "Station." The words and melody came to me in a vivid...

Kirtan Daily Chant Sheets

As many of you have been asking for word sheets to accompany our daily chanting practice, I thought I’d post them here. What follows below is the opening invocations, followed by a collection of most all of the simpler chants we sing together each morning, and finally the closing prayers. You should be able to...

Our Lady of Aparecida

When I was 20 years old, I wrote a song entitled “Miss Fine Mix,” inspired by a Belle Waring poem called “When A Beautiful Woman Gets On The Jutiapa Bus.”  At the time, I had aspirations of becoming a great and famous singer songwriter, and had recently quit college, moved to Boston with my cousin,...

The Grand Street Sessions

There is a Stan Lee post coming.  Given the sorry state of my computer, currently transitioning through its death throes and its replacement on its way, the post will likely be up in a couple days. For now, I thought I'd take a moment to share some kirtan dates with you, as well as this...

More Bitcoin: Some Sunday Afternoon Thoughts After A Walk in the Park

We spent this morning in Prospect Park with our five month old puppy, Leia.  The park allows owners to unleash their dogs before 9 am, a policy that welcomes an odd assortment of neighborhood characters and personalities; borderline eccentrics, semi-conscious financial planners, pajama-wearing elementary school teachers, introverted dog walkers, hungover yoga teachers; all punctuating the...

Life, Death and Baseball: Some Notes on the 2018 World Series

We spent most of our Sunday in Westchester County, where we attended the funeral of a friend's father who had passed away, very unexpectedly, at the age of 72.  I'd never met the man and knew very little of him before the service, but over the course of the day; the memorial, the burial and...

On Kirtan

We left Brooklyn early Saturday morning for Martha's Vineyard, where the seasonal tourists have disappeared, the foliage has turned to brilliant shades of orange, red and gold, and the mid-October temperatures have dropped suddenly and precipitously.  This is all familiar to me, having grown up near Portland, Maine.  Autumn in New England always stirs a...