The life of a songbird is brief. Perhaps that is why each one must sing, sing as they pass swiftly through this world of wind, whistle and woe, circling through the heavens, lighting on trees, nesting, then moving once again in constant migration just above the earth. Their rest is only in death and of […]

When the digital clock “unstrikes”—with  its eerie silent movement— the hour of the soul’s night, a voice such as hers will heal and hone the opened heart, singing its song of  love’s wine and woe in this world of stormy seas. Along with Sufjan Stevens, another singer-songwriter has flown in from th

Many shades of red has the heart. In fact, its fibers cover the spectrum of feeling. What has deeply impressed me about Sufjan Stevens is the capacity of feeling that is compressed within the lyric, tempo, and voice of this terribly old soul in a rather new body. I have chosen the song below because […]