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 firing on all cylinders, I’ll keep it extra-brief this time around. Here we go...
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CONTENTS of This Newsletter
1. This month I’ll be playing two (2) streamed shows…
2. In my studio: oboe project(!), EP progress
3. TK Poem of the Month: "Haikus for a Short Month"
4. March Food for Thought: Chuck Close on inspiration
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1. Live (streamed) Shows in March
Two weeks from now I’ll be a part of two (2) streaming Folk/Americana “in-the-round” shows. My segment in each show will run about 20-25 minutes, and both are FREE (donation optional).
The Scoop:
Sunday, March 14, 2021 6:00pm EST, 5:00pm CST etc.
—Kid Pan Alley In-the-Round
…A virtual writers show with Paul Reisler & Cheryl Toth, Georgia Middleman… & Tom Kimmel
For more info, click HERE
Tuesday, March 16, 2021 8:00pm EST, 7:00pm CST etc.
—Music My Mother Would Not Like Showcase Series
…A streamed concert series (live via Zoom) with Johnsmith, Kitty Donohoe, James Keelahan… & Tom Kimmel
For more info, click HERE
NOTE: As these concerts are the same week, I’ll make a point of playing a unique set for each show.
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2. In the studio: Recording oboist Galit Kaunitz & completing an EP
a. Galit Kaunitz
I recently had the privilege of recording a contemporary classical project for Galit Kaunitz, an outstanding oboist and a music professor at the University of Southern Mississippi. Wow! Talk about a completely new field for me—and such a breath of fresh air.
For more on Galit, click HERE.
b. I’m completing my EP (tentative title: “The Last Time I Saw Cain.”
I’m finishing the final track now, then it’ll be time to finalize mixes. Little by little. More on the EP in next month's newsletter.
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3. TK Poem of the Month: Haiku Challenge
I was recently challenged to write a haiku-a-day for a month, and it seemed that this past month (with its neat 28 days) would be the perfect time to do it.
Selections from “Haikus for a Short Month”
1
Am I not asleep?
What’s that on my chest? The cat?
God, it’s 3 am!
2
Pandemic deep dive.
When it’s over, think we will
Bob to the surface?
5
Dreams and troubled sleep.
Two o’clock, three, four and five.
Restless mind syndrome.
7
Valentine’s morning.
My love’s cinnamon oatmeal.
Slow-cooked and so sweet.
8
Español is hard.
My tongue gets so tangled up.
¿Tú entiendes?
10
Dexter smells better
Than he did before brushing.
He still needs a bath.
11
Hal David’s lyrics.
One brief syllable per note
Burt Bacharach wrote.
12
I, white American male
Dare, quite often, to complain.
Am I suffering?
14
Arctic high pressure.
Mississippi winter storm.
No water, no heat.
16
A thousand songs, more.
And what do they add up to?
Boxes of paper.
19
Everywhere I look
Pop-ups, click bait, eye candy.
I want my life back.
20
Design, what is it?
Nothing to see here people!
Oh look, now there is.
22
I can hear the birds
When I wear my hearing aids.
Without them, silence.
26
Sagittarian
I am, Water Snake, Vata.
Enneagram: Four.
27
I forget to pray
And then forget prayer exists.
Will you remind me?
28
I’ve come full circle
And a grand circle it’s been.
Now the next challenge.
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4. March Food for Thought
“Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.”
—Chuck Close (b. 1940), painter, artist, photographer
Till April, Maximum Peace, Love and Understanding,
TK