If music is a benevolent presence constantly and readily available to all, how are we constantly and readily available to music? We need to be present to music. This implies, we have to be present to ourselves. So, how?  If we disagree with the possibility that music is a benevolent presence, we have to be…

Affirmation One: The benevolence of the Creative Impulse is inexpressible. We cannot know this benevolence, while accepting that Benevolence knows us better than we know ourselves. Affirmation Two: Love cannot bear that even one soul be denied its place in Paradise. Affirmation Three: In strange and uncertain times, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But…

As a practice of prayer deepens, prayer becomes less a question of giving a list of jobs to Mr. God, and accepting that this is work for us. There are subtleties: how we engage with, even impossible, undertakings may never be seen; and may be as simple as the presence that surrounds us. Robert FrippMonday…

This is a wonderful time to get creating and get musicking. This is why musicians and artists are in the world. When we are shovelling the horseshit that we see on a daily basis, it’s when we are most needed. So, although we are allowed to say – look, this is a bit too much…

I The art of guitar and the art of living are very much the same. The art of the guitar is specific; the art of living a life, wide-ranging and all-inclusive. Taking up the guitar is immediately do-able, taking up and taking on our life is a major undertaking, perhaps overwhelming. Feedback and acknowledgement are…

I Wish comes from the place we were before we were born.  It comes with us, into this human animal we inhabit, when we are born. Perhaps, Wish is why we are born. In this animal, in this lifetime, we embody, enact and realise in the everyday world the work we were born to achieve:…

I The outside world is outside. It has no hold on our shared sacred space inside these walls. The liminal zone, the in-between space, is what enables the outside and the inside to come together, to permit movement from one to the other, to accommodate each other, to negotiate the space. It is neither one…