Becoming the Practice
At some point, without quite noticing, I stopped studying a creative practice and started living one.
Read the reflectionThe Notebook
Journal
Independent essays, reflections, and Reading Notes that deepen the questions begun by the songs without explaining them away.
5 published entriesEssay · Reflection · Reading Notes
Reading Notes
Books shaping the work
On the Nightstand
Four books opening questions about Texas musical mythology, the crisis of authority, dystopian inheritance, and mystical attention.
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Writing beside the Collection
Making the Bargain
On creative constraint, radio edits, and what an artist may be paying to get the work through the door.
Read the reflectionBeginner Again
On artistic humility, disciplined revision, and the willingness to hear the distance between the work and the standard.
Read the reflectionLove Is Not a Blindfold
Loyalty begins in attachment, but it becomes trustworthy only when it leaves room for witness, correction, and truth.
Read the essayThe Journal grows only when a piece can stand on its own.