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          <div class="message"><p><strong>This year's February Album Writing Month (FAWM) took me to new places. </strong>Things that happened: I let the music inform the song for once and then let the logic of the lyric inform how it develops. This meant I had…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/journal/blog/7425776/wrap-up-9-lessons-in-songwriting-and-probably-life">Read more</a></span></div>
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<p><strong>Dear Reader,</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://fawm.org/" target="_blank"><strong><u>February Album Writing Month</u></strong></a><strong> is well underway for me again this year, my 13th year participating.</strong> I will do a wrap-up blog post in early March deconstructing some of my songs and thoughts on the creative process, which…</p>
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          <div class="message"><p><strong>Hello. Thank you for reading this post. I wanted to share some news about my bassist of over 20 years, former life partner, and now closest friend. </strong>Randall Venturini is facing a cancer diagnosis and treatment. It's a rare b-cell…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/journal/blog/7425734/help-randall-fight-cancer">Read more</a></span></div>
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          <div class="message"><p><strong>…traveling, disappointed. My plans to relocate to the west coast have been placed on indefinite pause due to some unexpected, difficult life events. </strong>On my fourth day of driving all my things east to settle back into a life in…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/journal/blog/7422021/i-love-the-one-who-is">Read more</a></span></div>
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          <div class="message"><p><strong>I'm playing my first venue show since early March 2020. I'm only doing this because of Joni.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>Let me explain. I imagine when Shakespeare was alive someone was sure to think, “I live in the time of Shakespeare.” I find…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/journal/blog/7421999/in-the-time-of-joni">Read more</a></span></div>
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