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<li><span>Get glass food storage (not plastic). You can reuse it!  It saves money and the environment.  (Think of mason jars or glass bowls.)</span></li>
<li><span>Recycle and buy with recycling in mind.  For instance, look at the box or container the thing you’re buying is in.  Is it trashy?  Or is it eco-friendly?  Some items are unavoidably trashy (given what they’re sold in), but becoming aware of the packaging and the potential trash is the first step.  (Note: If you can get the same type of thing in an eco-friendly box or container, go that route.)</span></li>
<li><span>Take your own bags to the store to pack your groceries in. If you forget, then so be it.  But if you’ve got a lot of these in the car, you won’t be collecting bags of “bags.”</span></li>
<li><span>Avoid plastic in general unless you have no choice. I’m talking about food, clothing, anything!</span></li>
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<span>Have plants everywhere. I mean the real things, not the cloth fakers that look like plants.  Love the plants.  Bring the outside </span><i><span><strong>IN</strong></span></i><span>.  Plants clean the air and make really mellow friends.</span>
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<li><span>Plant trees!  Love the trees.  Care for the trees, the forests. They’re not just in your yard. They are peaceful giants and some of the oldest species left on the planet. </span></li>
<li><span>Turn off lights when you leave rooms. It’ll save you money and help the environment.</span></li>
<li><span>Get energy efficient appliances (i.e., energy star) or automobiles (if you can afford ‘em)</span></li>
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<span>Buy organic (</span><i><strong>also </strong></i><span>if you can afford it).  Even if you can’t afford </span><i><strong>everything</strong></i><span> organic, maybe get a few things that way, like apples. In fact, anything with a skin you’ll eat??  Go organic.</span>
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<a class="no-pjax" href="https://thebeeconservancy.org/10-ways-to-save-the-bees/"><span style="color:#467886;"><span><u>Support the bees</u></span></span></a><span>.  Without the bees, we’re all doomed. This does not mean raising a bee colony.  But if you see them, respect them.  Help them.  Grow flowers they love.  Don’t piss ‘em off. Don’t use chemicals to kill them. Have an invasive hive </span><i><strong>moved</strong></i><span>; don’t exterminate them.  </span>
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<li><span>Use energy offsets if your local provider has these available. The idea is that you support “green” energy sources as alternatives to the usual energy sources. It might cost a little more, but you’re supporting newer, cleaner technology.</span></li>
</ol><p><span>That’s a short list of what I try to do. If I included all the suggestions here, this would turn into a book!  But the point is that we don’t have to do nothing. I do the above, although not perfectly and not all the time. </span>Yeah, it isn’t a set of policies enacted by a major government.  But <i><strong>it’s something</strong></i>.</p><p><i>Happy Sunday</i></p><p><span>🎵</span></p><p><span> </span></p><p><br> </p></div>
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  <div class="message"><h3><span>Moved</span></h3><p><span>We are finally moved into our new abode. The week was a haze of disordered living and laborious organization. But it’s done now. I can finally get back to arranging songs.</span></p><h3><span>Meanwhile… What’s on the mind lately?</span></h3><p><span>As I ponder the L.A. fires, the new administration, our retreat from the Paris Accord, the “drill baby drill” philosophy, I can’t help but worry.  Why are things stuck in a pattern of denial and entropy about climate change?  Most of the populations worldwide know all too well something is wrong with the weather as they face one 1000-year-storm-event after another.  The movement to change is difficult to coordinate. Very rich people (who have vested interests in keeping markets the way they are) see the alternatives (like Clean Energy) as expensive with little immediate reward. We lack infrastructure to support much of it anyway.</span></p><p><span>Some 50 years ago, Gas and Oil companies were aware of the dangers of continued fossil fuel usage. But companies like </span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/01/harvard-led-analysis-finds-exxonmobil-internal-research-accurately-predicted-climate-change/"><span style="color:#467886;"><span><u>Exxon/Mobile</u></span></span></a><span> decided the better way to address the crisis was to confuse and cloudy up the messages.  On the one hand, they had some predictive models that showed the climate changes on the horizon (if we continued to use fossil fuels as we had).  On the other, they’d then release information to sow doubt. Their models were essentially correct.  What did we (as a country or population) do about it?  <strong>Answer</strong>: Almost nothing.  </span></p><p><span>I don’t blame individuals. We do what we can.  But it’s like teaspoons in an ocean. It’s our governments (local to national), our so-called leaders, our philosophies on what should remain private (and capitalist) vs. public (and shared) that we need to look at.  Capitalists have had a REALLY HARD TIME creating alternatives when there’s no infrastructure to support any of it.  It’s a flawed model.</span></p><p><i><span><strong>So as I think about the L.A. fires and hear about how local officials knew for decades about the threat of fires and yet did little to prevent it? </strong></span></i><span> I think of the people who lost everything.  Why? It didn’t need to be the way it was. But everything from city planning to construction to land management failed — that’s not even considering the water system (pressure) that failed in the thick of the crisis.  </span><br><br><span>No one in charge thought to design for the very real threat of a massive fire?  Or maybe they did and got nowhere?</span></p><p><span>These changes are HARD. They are expensive. They require sacrifice.  They require letting go of something (an idea, a design, a vision) people expect.</span></p><p><span>I understand they will rebuild back in the areas of the fires — i.e., Pacific Palisades, Altadena.  How will they rebuild, though?  The same way?  Quickly? Has anyone taken a step back to design and consider a less fire-prone approach?  Probably not.  They’re in a hurry.  They want a return to normalcy as soon as it’s possible.</span></p><p><span>But what’s normal if you live in constant threat of another fire to take the next home down?  That’s no way to live. </span></p><h4><span>Root Cause?</span></h4><p><span>I could look at laziness as being one of the more obvious answers. Reluctance is another one.  But that’s </span><i><span>waaaaaaaaaay</span></i><span> too simple an answer. </span></p><p><span>It’s a very complex equation of:</span></p><ul>
<li><span>How we design cities</span></li>
<li><span>How we build houses (like materials)</span></li>
<li><span>What we (as a society) expect homes to look like</span></li>
<li><span>Our comfort levels in the neighborhoods</span></li>
<li><span>Our expectations for things like electricity, water and gas to “be there” for us</span></li>
</ul><p><span>It’s a long list of expectations.  Would people be okay with a cement block of a home made of concrete and steel?  Would it survive an earthquake?  </span><i><span><strong>Or</strong></span></i><span>: Would people be okay with homes further apart, more expensive, and made with less flammable materials?</span></p><p><span>We have come to expect better, faster and cheaper. We were raised on that concept. We hold on hoping that a home in that area (like Altadena) can be built fast and affordable.  But what is affordable at this point?  I wouldn’t want to pay $500,000 for a home that burns down again in 10 years.  Would you?</span></p><h3><span>Alarms</span></h3><p><span>I wrote a song a few years back that bring these ideas to mind. This was more of a response to the fires in </span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.npr.org/2023/11/08/1209471739/a-california-town-wiped-off-the-map-by-wildfire-is-still-recovering-five-years-o"><span style="color:#467886;"><span><u>Paradise, CA — the inferno from 2018</u></span></span></a><span>. There again, people had bought fragile homes in a fire-prone environment.  I had seen a listing for a “home” in Paradise for $700K.  It was a burned-out hull.  There was little but the foundation left.  $700K seemed ridiculous.  (Yeah, what a deal. 😒)</span></p><p><span>To date, Paradise is apparently only back to one-third of the population. Many left. And it’s not really the “affordable” location it was once touted as now anyway.</span></p><p><i><span><strong>I really ask the question: Wouldn’t somebody pull the alarms if there’s danger?? Get us moving physically and mentally?  </strong></span></i></p><p><span><strong>ANSWER</strong>:  Guess not…  </span></p><p><span> </span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="N-aucg9OofE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/N-aucg9OofE?rel=0&amp;wmode=transparent&amp;enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p><span> </span></p><p><br> </p></div>
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  <div class="message"><p><span>I’m moving. 🚚  This will be 2 times in the past year. I don’t know about any of you, but buying a house these days means getting lucky with the seller AND spending a fortune.  It’s also a big gamble.  Given today’s market, real estate could falter and values drop by greater than half.  But given the rise and fall of real estate prices in the past 50 years, it’s unlikely.  They might come down (witness 2008), but I don’t think they’re crashing any time soon.  (For those of you who want a house and can’t afford one? I know where you’re at. I was there for decades. I know it’s frustrating.)</span></p><p><span>So today, we packed a smallish truck and moved our stuff about 150 miles from where we were in Seattle.  We would have tried to buy in the Seattle area.  But unless you’ve inherited, you’re extremely rich, or you’re willing to work 3 jobs, Seattle’s too expensive.</span></p><h3><span>About Moving?</span></h3><p><span>If you haven’t moved recently, I don’t think this will be a surprise but: IT’S TIRING.</span></p><p><span>Between stuffing your possessions in boxes and hauling it around (3 flights of stairs, by the way), it’s a huge physical and mental stressor.</span></p><p><i><span><strong>Now me?</strong></span></i><span> Ever the creative, obsessive type, I didn’t tear down my studio until yesterday at 9:00 PM.  That’s because I was all about this song I’m working on.  And it took about two hours to pack the whole of room once I put the song away.  But c’est la vie.</span></p><p><span>Now comes putting it all back together.  That’s tomorrow.</span></p><h3><span>Minimalism?</span></h3><p><span>I’ve thought myself to be a non-materialist and minimalist for at least 15 years.  But when I see our material footprint fits into a 15 ft U-haul truck, I must re-evaluate. It’s not like there’s tons of extraneous knickknacks or clutter.  There are six guitars, two keyboards, five computers, chairs, mic stands, music stands, microphones, monitors, chords… and on and on.  Fifty percent of it is MUSIC.</span></p><p><i><span><strong>Upshot</strong></span></i><span>: I don’t know that I’d survive well as a Buddhist nun in a monastery — or </span><i><span><strong>any monastery, </strong></span></i><span>actually.</span></p><p><span>(In the Thich Nhat Hahn tradition, I’ve heard monks and nuns keep their belongings down to two suitcases. 😳  Me? I could have </span><i><span><strong>two suitcases for each subject </strong></span></i><span>— i.e., music, clothing, bathroom, kitchen, etc.  Well, maybe two suitcases and a LOT of other cases for instruments.  Otherwise, it’d be pretty HARD for me unless I secretly rented a storage space for everything else and didn’t tell anyone — kind of the antithesis of being a spiritual monk or nun.  LYING.  🤥. I’d make a bad nun.</span></p></div>
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<br><span style="color:black;">When I last left this web site, I had done a bunch of releases and was intending to do more. But a silly thing happened on the way to that goal:  I went back to playing the oboe.  <o:p></o:p></span>
</h4><p><span style="color:black;">Unlike John Lennon who was famous for saying “Life happens while you’re making other plans,” I was busy chasing other plans as life was happening.  <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="color:black;">I hunted for a new oboe, made reeds, learned hard pieces, got a teacher – the whole shebang.  And I WAS back to playing by the time a year and a half had rolled by. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="color:black;">But I missed writing music and singing it.  I also missed playing music that didn’t feel as if I’d been run over by a hearse.  Oboes are brutal to play as a hobby.  It can be done. But it makes for a miserable life. (This is my own personal point of view, by the way. Other oboists LOVE to play.) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="color:black;"><i><strong>You might be wondering, “Why is an oboe like a hearse and where did that come from?”<o:p></o:p></strong></i></span></p><p><span style="color:black;">Oboes are notorious for back-pressure and a sense that you’re suffocating while playing it. If oxygen deprivation is your “thing,” go ahead… play an oboe.  If you like breathing, though?  Maybe play flute instead. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="color:black;">So, I restarted the music factory over here. New songs have been written. It’s just a matter of getting them recorded and released.  And now that I’m not clouded by a rather dubious detour into oboe-land, I can focus more on writing songs and producing.  <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="color:black;">A few changes while I pursue this:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ol>
<li><span style="color:black;">A minimalist (a.k.a., cheap!) web site.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li><span style="color:black;">Bandcamp for releases<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li><span style="color:black;">DIY - Doing everything (recording, producing, and mastering) over here in my own world.  <o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ol><p><span style="color:black;">Mixing and mastering by others has sounded great. I’m not knocking their work. It’s just expensive. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="color:black;">If you’re at all familiar with the music industry, this won’t come as a surprise. If you aren’t it might. <strong>But hardly anybody makes any money releasing music these days.  </strong>Taylor Swift?  Yes, of course she does.  But then there’s the 99% of the rest of us.  We write for the love of writing and sharing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="color:black;">And I will be sharing a lot coming up… <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="color:black;">Until next time. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="color:black;">🙏<o:p></o:p></span></p></div>
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