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From the New World to the World to Come: Michael Tilson Thomas Z”L

April 24, 2026

It seems strange, really quite strange, that sitting at the top of my music library tonight, the most recently added album, and there have been many recently, is Mahler’s 5th with the face of the MTT on the cover. Just three days after I added it, with the intention to listen to it in the […]

Returning To Tomorrow

April 16, 2026

The powerful force of nostalgia has been on my mind. The tensions between memory and prayer, between returning to and creating toward. I create maps of covers, this artist with this song, this artist covering that artist, the way the songs fill time and space and connect us to subtle hints about who is valued, […]

As I Stood in the Ashes of My Childhood

December 30, 2017
feeling: nostalgic

On my last trip of the year, through Sonoma County, I stood at the gates of Camp Newman, outside Santa Rosa. Fire consumed much of the property and the surrounding area. Yet, across the street, some properties operate seemingly untouched. Now, instead of campers and counselors, its inhabitants are maintenance and security staff, EPA and […]