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BOOMERPDX AND THE WEEPING GUITAR

May 15, 2014 by

Music Lesson To Life Lesson And Back To Music. Personal history is tricky. Everyone has one and they’re all better than yours. At least that’s the idea of avoiding writing personal history stories. How many times have you told of an experience and someone listening says, “The same thing happened to me, except…” and their […]

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PLAY GUITAR?

April 26, 2013 by

WHERE MUSIC THERAPY AND PHYSICAL THERAPY HOOK-UP Spend time with someone afflicted with a movement disease and you’ll get this: Fine motor skills go first. Any baby boomer know this, too. You don’t run faster and jump higher with every birthday. PF Flyer might have made the promise, but you’ve grown out of those shoes.

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DAMAGED MEN DON’T ASK FOR BAND-AIDS?

October 28, 2024 by 2 Comments

Damaged men are all around, but you’d never know it. Why? Not because they tell you, because they don’t. In a show and tell world, they do the show part better than the tell part.

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NEXT YEAR, MAYBE THE YEAR AFTER

October 12, 2024 by 2 Comments

Next year shows up fast, so fast that you haven’t gotten over anything from the last year. Suddenly you’re stacking the new ‘get over it’ on top of the old ‘get over it.’ You used to care about getting over things. What happened? This happened:

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KRIS KRISTOFFERSON MAKES IT THROUGH THE NIGHT

September 30, 2024 by

Kris Kristofferson died yesterday. I found out in a text from one of my guitar guys. “RIP Bobby McGee.” We mourned Tom Petty’s passing, now Kris. In baby boomer world, it’s reminder of our tenuous grip on life.

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TAKING TIME, MAKING TIME

September 28, 2024 by

Taking time for the little things is something we’re supposed to do. Making time to get it right is always the challenge. In some worlds, maybe yours, time is elusive, slippery, until you get rewired one way or the other.

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OPB PEOPLE IN BEAVERTON’S RESER

September 27, 2024 by

OPB people gathered Thursday night for a radio show at The Reser in Beaverton. Maybe it’s the same crowd for every Live Wire show, but I don’t know. I’ve been to one other on Portland’s Eastside and both had one thing in common: Old people who know how to have a laugh.

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DECISION MAKING BEHIND THE CURTAIN

September 25, 2024 by

Decision making used to be a coin flip. To be, or not to be; go, or no go. Were those simpler days, or just poor memories? Social media says hold my beer.

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START AGAIN THEN FINISH

September 20, 2024 by

Is that the plan? Start, finish, and start again? Or is it start, abandon, and forget about it. Either way, you need a goal to keep going. If you can explain why you do what you do to yourself, and it makes sense, keep going. But what about explaining your work to strangers?

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BIG DECISIONS ARE TOO HARD?

September 9, 2024 by

Big decisions come every day, one fastball after another. In the game of life, you stand in and take your cuts. You might get on base, you might strike out. Or you might opt out of the whole thing? Wait a minute.

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