Tom Kimmel

February Greetings Fellow Planetarians! 

We have a lot in common, you and I, living on this planet at exactly the same time. We're all breathing, walking, talking, sleeping, laughing, crying, reaching out, turning in, learning our lessons, and making our…

Hi Everyone! 

Just a brief note to share that there'll be a livestream of a special writers show I'll be playing THIS Saturday night. I'm in the midst of a retreat with 3 talented (and really nice) artists at the…

January Greetings! 

It’s a strangely warm, rainy day in Memphis, a good day to stay inside and catch up with you. Not much news thus far in the New Year because I’ve been slowly recovering from a couple of pesky…

December Greetings! 

As I write this, a chill rain is pounding the skylight over my head here in Memphis. I pray that we're all warm and dry as these crazy storms roll across the country. And here, nearly at the…

November Greetings & Early Happy Thanksgiving! 

I pray all of us are staying warm through the crazy cold snap affecting much of the country. It's been so cold (and so early) for so many! Having a paucity of meat on…

Autumn Greetings to All Friends, Fans & Curious Onlookers! 

It’s now sho’ nuff autumn in Memphis, and today's been spectacular! After an early morning walk, however, I've been holed up in my little attic studio, which is where I've been…

Early Fall Greetings to All Sentient Beings! 

I love that word “sentient.” According to Webster’s it means “able to feel things.” And thank God we still can. It’s so tempting to pull way in, armor up, knuckle down and simply…

Late Summer Greetings to My Friends on Planet Earth, 

Yes, I’m also an earthling, though sometimes I feel quite the visitor, which is how I felt last week disembarking an international flight to a sea of airport TVs streaming news…

Hi Everyone! 

I’m off to Ireland the first of next week, so SUPER SHORT newsletter this month. 

If you missed last week's news blast about my 2023 tours in Ireland AND Scotland, I'll paste that info in below. 

In the…

June Greetings Everyone from very hot Memphis! 

And hey I know it’s uncomfortably hot lots of places right now. I do pray everyone’s managing. 

With that in mind... Last weekend my wife and I took a walk sponsored by an…

May Greetings Everyone! 

Spring—I want it to last on and on! But maybe what's fleeting is all the more sweet. And speaking of sweet, I've been traveling—shows with old friend Michael Lille in Asheville and Nashville last week—and I loved…

April Greetings! 

Early spring is in full swing here in Memphis. Buds are bursting, fruit trees and dogwoods flowering and the palest of slender green leaves are sprouting above Midtown streets. I’m reminded that change is indeed possible, renewal is…

March Greetings Everyone, 

I can’t launch into my monthly email to you all without saying that my heart is with the people of Ukraine. The news, the images… hard to read, watch, listen. For me, when unfathomable hurt is inflicted…

Hey Y'all, a quick special news blast(!)... 

At long last Dana Cooper’s excellent new album I Can Face the Truth is OUT, and it features the single “Bluebird,” which Dana and I wrote and perform together... 

...AND now there’s a…

A Slightly Tardy New Year’s Greeting to All! 

I can hardly imagine that it’s a New Year, but here we are 19 days in. Time, what a concept! I’m reading a fascinating book called When We Cease to Understand the…

December Greetings Everybody! 

It’s that time of year, and what a year it’s been! Have mercy! Praying for better for the world in ’22. But now the year's winding down, the holidays in sight... and freezing at night. And man…

Official Fall Greetings Everybody! 

Boy oh boy, the colors of the old trees in Midtown Memphis are coming alive. I’m crazy about these trees! 

Of course the seasons don’t change so noticeably everywhere, and south of the equator you’re slipping…

Early Fall Greetings Everyone! 

I didn’t intend to maintain radio silence for so long, but for several weeks now my wife and I have been neck deep in relocating to Memphis (and all the house-selling, apartment-hunting, moving, downsizing etc. requires). 

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Greetings Everybody! 

I pray that as you read this you are neither drying out, burning up or drowning here in the midst of our across-the-country crazy weather summer. 

I’m on the run, so I’ll be extra-brief, but I do have…

June Greetings Everyone! 

“Humid subtropical” is the climate category we fall into here in Mississippi, and it's an apt term for our fast arriving summer. Hard to imagine that when I was a boy in nearby Alabama we didn’t have…

Spring Greetings Everyone! 

Somehow this impossible world keeps turning, and in spite of everything hard and worn, wow, here comes Spring... and a little Spring news. 

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CONTENTS of This Newsletter 

1. Two unique streamed shows (with Beth Wood and…

March Greetings Everyone! 

Got my second Covid shot yesterday, and I’ve never been so happy to feel chilled and wobbly! I just wish everybody who wants one could immediately get theirs. 

It's all good, but since my brain's not quite…

What a time we're living in. Will we ever forget it? 

Got my first Covid shot yesterday, and here's how badly I've wanted it... 

Last week I drove five (5!) hours round-trip to Natchez only to be informed that I…

Contents 

1. Happy Holidays Everybody! 
2. New Website... (online NOW) 
3. Food for Thought... from Sufi mystic Rabia 
4. A Poem for the Season ("My Sister") 
5. A Mini-Holiday Song mp3 gift... for you (attached) 

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1. Holiday Greeting 

Here's…