Songwriting Process

song titles 101

If you’re going it alone in your creative journey and you’re completely fulfilled and you’re achieving all your goals, then please email me back so all of us at golden lotus studio can follow you on Insta and Spotify and celebrate your success. Huzzah!

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Songwriting Process

don’t go it alone

If you’re going it alone in your creative journey and you’re completely fulfilled and you’re achieving all your goals, then please email me back so all of us at golden lotus studio can follow you on Insta and Spotify and celebrate your success. Huzzah!

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Songwriting Process

no more drowning

When I was a young man studying Zen meditation, I got the chance to study with the outstanding Roshi Gerry Shishin Wick at Great Mountain Zen Center in Colorado. He gave me much great instruction, but there was a moment I will never forget.

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Songwriting Process

expanding + integrating

How do we grow as artists and as humans on the path?

Did I hear you say “challenge”? Yes, you are very much on to something there…One thinks immediately of Frida Kahlo in her bed after the bus accident turning to painting. Or Byron Katie sleeping on the floor and having an experience of profound awakening when a cockroach crawled across her foot.

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Songwriting Process

theoretically, you rock

I know that you’re here for it. I know that on a fundamental level you get the importance, to your soul and the souls of others, of rooting your creative practice in your spiritual practice. Or at least you have a sense of how the two are connected.

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