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Tar Sands Songbook on Tour
Touring the Trans Mountain Pipeline from November 20-30, 2023
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April 2023

Seven Ways to Tell the Truth About Oil
Breaking the oil and gas industry's hold on the arts and my personal history.
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March 2023

"Forging New Paths" in the Early Pandemic
Two 2020 essays by Ryan Muncy and me on how old lessons from music can still save us. How sometimes it's not enough to imagine: we have to instigate…
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Nothing Compares 2 U
Remembering Ryan Muncy, the spring of 2020, and his lessons about how to survive a new normal.
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On Teaching Entrepreneurship
When the word is both a wound and its medicine, we must remember that there is always an alternative.
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The Homunculus
When I quit playing music and took up psychology, I began to see how my brain, my body, and my life were all three bent to the shape of music.
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February 2023

Reprise: “How Quitting Music Made Me An Artist”
An essay originally published by 21CM, July 2018.
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Surgiversary Two
“Live in the layers, / not on the litter.”
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March 2022

Week 2.2 Preamble: The song has a job
About the past 19 days, and why it's not enough to let the music do the talking.
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February 2022

Week 2.1 Preamble: Magical Thinking About Music
If music makes the world a better place, then why are things so bad?
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Open thread: "What we pay attention to grows"
If what we pay attention to grows, what do you want to pay attention to and grow over these next 12 weeks? adrienne maree brown writes about “at…
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Week 1 Lecture: Begin
I’m a musician, and a pillar of my teaching practice is “entrepreneurship.” Usually, this boils down to my teaching younger musicians how to build…
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