Thank you, Emily

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant---
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
As Lightening to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind---

What can't we learn from Emily Dickinson's poetry? That woman who had by any standard zero life experience to speak of speaks from a direct line accessed by paying attention. She is a personal hero for the way she silently crumbled the ivory tower of poetry with her slender, green vine-verse before anyone had a chance to explain why she didn't matter. Also, what about those Slap Your Face capital letters, and dashes daring you to deny her final word?

Both this blog and my most recent album, Little Words, owe their inspiration to her persistence in recording private musings which like Longfellow's, "The Arrow and the Song" ......fall to earth we know not where.

Among the many idea-children tugging at my skirt for this blog, I plan to write a "story behind the song" entry once a week for each of my 21 recorded songs including an iTunes link for easy previewing and purchase.

I encourage you to follow along and invite other like-minded souls to join us.