Bidin’ My Time.

Art & Culture, Conscious Life, history, Jazz, Lifestyle, Music, Personal, Songwriting / Tuesday, August 12, 2025 / 6 minutes of reading

For a while now the phrase “Bidin my time” has filtered into my consciousness. It’s an old phrase that I heard frequently when I was growing up. I’m not sure if it’s used anymore, but just those three words, when spoken together, hold a multitude of meanings. Perhaps it’s the political climate or maybe it’s […]

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DAYA Music Festival of Indonesia 2024 (pt. 3)

Art & Culture, Dead Horse Records, Full Gallop Music, Indonesia, Jakarta, Jazz, Lifestyle, Music, Music Education, Travel, World Music / Tuesday, March 11, 2025 / 7 minutes of reading

Monday, July 8, 2024 Well, it’s done, the festival has ended and to say that I’m humbled by the experience would not be the most accurate words to best convey the joy and fulfillment I feel. I only slept about 3 hours and yet I’m still pumped up with adrenaline from the activities of the

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DAYA Music Festival of Indonesia 2024 (pt. 2)

Art & Culture, Dead Horse Records, Full Gallop Music, Indonesia, Jakarta, Jazz, Lifestyle, Music, Music Education, Travel, World Music / Wednesday, February 12, 2025 / 6 minutes of reading

Wednesday, July 3, 2024Up earlier than planned but still, I was excited for the day. We had lunch at the campus. Today was rehearsal day for the upcoming fundraising concert held in the spectacular home of Dedi Panigoro. With the band – Deviana piano, Jennifer Vincent bass, Suhandin Kosasih percussion, and Wahyu Prastya drums, we

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DAYA Music Festival of Indonesia 2024 (pt. 1)

Art & Culture, Full Gallop Music, Indonesia, Jakarta, Jazz, Lifestyle, Music, Music Education, Travel, World Music / Tuesday, January 14, 2025 / 8 minutes of reading

In 2009, I shared a blog post about my first trip to Jakarta, Indonesia. Since then, I’ve had the privilege of returning multiple times, each journey focused on the discovery and promotion of culture and art—specifically, the rich and diverse culture and art of Indonesia. Most recently, I embarked on my fourth visit to this

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2020 + 2021 = Now

Conscious Life, Jazz, Lifestyle, Personal / Saturday, August 13, 2022 / 6 minutes of reading

According to the public health John Hopkins Education May 24, 2022 article – Where We Are in the Pandemic by Lindsay Smith Rogers, Covid-19 is not over and will not be over at least for the foreseeable future. Yeah, that’s right, it is still here. And thus far we are not exactly sure what it

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Baby, Scratch My Back….

Art & Culture, Lifestyle, Television / Monday, March 2, 2015 / 1 minute of reading

Being a singer, I’m hypersensitive to lyrics to songs. There a quite a few songs about scratchin’ where it itches. Most of them are blues titles. The title of this post, for instance, is taken from a Slim Harpo tune of the same name. Another “Scratch My Back” title song, written by Earl Cage, Raymond

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Dear Big Brother……

Lifestyle, Peace Activism, Television, Uncategorized / Thursday, July 11, 2013 / 5 minutes of reading

“They saw my WHAT?” There is a steady flow of posting and commenting on social media about the National Security Agency (NSA) and our being “watched”. It’s not that we citizens of the United States are not prepared for this type of constant intrusion of our privacy. We have slowly allowed ourselves to embrace the

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Brooklyn For Peace

Brooklyn For Peace, Lifestyle, Peace Activism / Saturday, July 18, 2009 / 1 minute of reading

Brooklyn For Peace is an organization that was founded in 1984 by a small group of parents that were concerned about the devastating effects of war. Now 25 years later they are still going strong. I have been a member for 3 years now and have served on the board for 2 of those years.

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The Allergy Season

Birth, Creation, Death, Lifestyle, Personal / Monday, May 5, 2003 / 1 minute of reading

Yes, I know, it has been a while. Sometimes I don’t always feel inspired to write about anything, but today that is a different story. I want to write about the allergy season. I suffer from allergies. And when I say I suffer, I mean I suffer. Probably not anywhere near the level as people

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Dream Crush in Cherry Flavor

Conscious Life, dreams, Lifestyle / Tuesday, January 28, 2003 / 1 minute of reading

A friend of mine and I was talking last night and the subject of the real-world and dreams came up. After a good night’s rest, I woke up with these thoughts. I figured it didn’t seem that weird to me, maybe it won’t seem weird to you either. How does one reconcile the real world

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