This is a poem I write last December...somewhere around Christmas 2024. It is one of my favorite piece of writing...I don't even remember how I wrote it...I was DoorDashing...and was sitting waiting for an order...the words just began to come into my mind and flow from my typing thumbs (lol...I do almost all my writing in a doc on my phone). This is one of the seamless ones from poem to song...all I had to do was compose the key (G Major) and simple 4/4 standard time. Easy and simple to play and sing. I hope y'all like it...and it speaks to you. more

I wrote this on March 11, 2023...she would "come home" only a few weeks later...only to stay for a few days. Looking back...this poem was somewhat "prophetic"...I had forgotten I had written it right before. It has made a beautiful song...and I was able to compose just the right feel for it...what you hear is as close to the emotion I feel/felt when I first wrote, "Far Away" now, "My Missing Beautiful Friend." Thank you for listening. more

I wrote this song this morning. It is the first track on a 6 track EP I'm releasing right now. It is just what was needed to complete the set. A little back story, if you will indulge me, I've been basically homeless since January 2024. Moving form motel to motel, sleeping in my car...this began in Reno. Last October I came "home" to Northern California...this is my adopted home, I'm originally from Tennessee. I came here to Redding in 2011...I met a beautiful woman. We married and have children...that ended in Reno. I slept in my car here for the first 8 weeks or so...finally found a temporary housing place...I now have my 13 years old with me too...but I'm now unemployed...my DoorDashing was taken. I woke this morning...and a voice said..."See, nothing has changed..." I opened my word doc...and began to type...this song came out of my heart. The hardest thing about faith...is the waiting...the watching...the praying...the hope (which seems strange to say...how can hope be hard?). I've been able to release so much material...because I really don't have anything else to do right now...so I write, compose, write some more....listen...compose again...that's my days right now. It has been a gift to be able to do this. So, just as the Spirit has done...after putting this song to music...while fine tuning the other tracks...two of which were released as singles...I get a phone call. I've been approves for a Pale grant...so I'm going to college at age 53...my Creator turned my page. He gives me "new lines to write..." For He is the Master Composer...the Master Lyricist with no equal...He alone writes my story; He composes my song. The Spirit reminds me yet again...there is always hope in the night...the morning's light is soon to break. Thank you to each one of you, who are also here to be heard...for listening to what gets drawn out of me...I sincerely wish I had the time to hear each and every one of you...but one day...I'll be able to turn that page too. To my God be the glory! His Name is Jesus...and He calls me friend. more