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A site for Music, Board Games, Writing, and Philosophy

Thank you for visiting, but nothing is happening here at the moment. Occasionally, this site is currently under construction. The rest of the time, it's completely neglected. And for the particularly gloomy hours on empty Sunday afternoons, it sits down at the piano and gives its tears to the young rain.  

This is a general overview of a writing philosophy--called Words as Blank Spaces--which I use to approach writing fiction. After I had figured this out, I finally realized what was meant by the classic writing advice of "show don't tell."

This is a general overview of an approach I use for composing music--called Intervallic Continuity--which gives me the freedom to write music effectively without a key. 

Let us close on a principle.
 We must stop rushing around the normal routine, and look beneath the surface.  

Beneath the surface is the mind world. Beneath the surface is the heart world. This is the place where shimmering starlight wanders through shadowed forests. The place were words and actions strengthen and enrich lives, instead of just getting us through the day. We have to move beyond function, and economy, and routine, and stress, and want, and enjoyment, and comfort. We have to find the lonely beaches, where the white sand shimmers beneath the silver moon, and the fathomless sea whispers to us of the rich depths life can know, and the glorious heights it can attain. Everyday we wake up, and we drink our coffee, and we step into the wild landscape of the surface world, and we resolve its questions and we satisfy its demands and we try to improve its circumstances...but it is not necessarily where we live.  

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