My first guitar: a clue in choosing your first musical instrument
I got my first electric guitar when I was fifteen. Pappy took me down to Denny’s Strings ‘n Things in Gresham and let me pick her out. It was my … Continue reading
Operation Livecrime, New Year’s Eve, 1991
New Year’s Eve. Nineteen ninety one. I was at the Queensryche concert in Portland, Oregon. My last chemotherapy treatment was the day after Christmas. Those last few sessions, I would … Continue reading
New sound therapy album from Taking Care Sound Tribe!
The Taking Care Sound Tribe shed blood, sweat, tears… and, a pancreas, making a sound therapy album of the highest calibre. The recording process brought our deepest vulnerabilities to surface. … Continue reading
The Taking Care Sound Tribe goes to the recording studio
For a spell, I worked the admin desk in the massage clinic at my old massage therapy college in Portland, Oregon. The music was piped in from closet a level … Continue reading
Long ones, Short ones, Skinny ones, Fat ones
I found this lovely three string instrument the other day at Trade Up Music in southeast Portlandia. A bit of research revealed it was built by Wendell Powell of Arkansas … Continue reading
Winding Road
Winding Road: A Samurai’s Journey I’ve carried these bones Along this winding road Past all the fields of Home And I see and I see The road before me Just … Continue reading
With thanks… Taking Care Portland, August, 2013
Sunday morning. August in Portlandia. Light filters through the window, soft and golden. Hydrate. Stretch. Move. Dance. Run. Down to the river with the dogs to stand atop the old … Continue reading
Every guitar
Every guitar has a spirit. A force of expression, waiting to be plucked in hands of heart. Every instrument has a voice that is only heard in your playful hands. … Continue reading
Taking Care Portland at TaborSpace: Sunday, August 11th, 2013!
Born out of a Portlandia episode? Taking Care Portland is bringing group acupuncture, community bodywork and live, improvised sound therapy in the same room! So, there’s a Portlandia skit, where … Continue reading
Let it shape our bodywork
Music, inspiration… Let it shape our bodywork. Let our sessions build and sway, dancing with the always newfound. Let the work be an epic poem, let it be an album … Continue reading
