A kelphisto komrade komposer named Paul Muller enjoyed these photos so much, that he took the time to set them to his very well-suited music in this compelling, soothing, transportive video. It’s a fun switch to have my photos underscored by someone else’s music, for a [...]

…click to listen: …about the music Maui in the sunshine, San Juan Island in the snow. Tweet Well, since New Year’s I’ve been in two equally gorgeous, and very climatically contrasting island environments. I giddily celebrated the completion of my 50th dizzying rotation around our Sun on the sunny isle of Maui, and returned a week later to the [...]

…click to listen: …about the music This way. Tweet There may be no better way to begin the first day of the new year than with a walk through a wilderness area. Especially when, at 48 and a half degrees latitude, the temperature nearly matches the map coordinates, and the wind behaves itself (for a change. Lately it’s been [...]

…click to listen: …about the music Music for fur-balls. Tweet Artists have a tough enough time trying to believe that we’re not worthless, talentless frauds, without further assistance from those who live with us. Pictured above is the face that often looks down on me as I’m composing. It’s a face consumed by a mix of utter condescension, and [...]

…click to listen: …about the music Patterned still life. Tweet It’s been chilly here overnight, then bright bright bright stillness and warmer, 40-something temps during the day. Yesterday morning I walked out to my car around ten o’clock, accompanied by a sun that blazed low and hot on my back as I entered the prairie grass field behind the [...]

…click to listen: …about the music Still life that’s not the least bit still. Tweet In the two days following the storm featured in my silly saltwater- and giggle-infused holiday movie below, I had to get outside to explore. Curious to see what odd items Poseidon might have tossed around in his wrath (see Flying Rock Moment at [...]

…about the music I used to live on a boat part-time. Apparently, I still do. Tweet I spent Thanksgiving Day at home, in awe of nature’s power– and giggling at it! 50 MPH winds, 10-foot waves, 8-foot high tide… and no, it wasn’t raining. The house, perched on a rocky ledge roughly 20 feet above the Salish Sea, [...]

…click to listen: …about the music I really don’t mind traveling atoll. Tweet Home, pictured above. I’ve just returned from the umpteenth of what seems like umpteen business trips in the past three months. I’m thrilled to be staying put in my house, surrounded by a big moat for a whopping two weeks in a row, before hurtling myself eastward [...]

…click to listen: …about the music Elegy of love. Tweet Eleven eleven eleven. A full moon has risen. It is perfect and balanced and beautiful. I was born on the eleventh of January. My father was born on the eleventh of November. 1-11… 11-11… We were both only children. When I was little I used to talk excitedly with my father about our 2011 birthdays. It [...]

…click to listen: …about the music Observing, wondering, sighing. Tweet It was 6:15 in the October morning. My body, and a reasonable fraction of my mental capacity, were at the airport in Seattle. I had just completed my participation in the competitive gauntlet-running sport of clearing the hurdles of airport security, and traversing miles of terminals via foot, tram [...]