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Whose Fool Are You? #Fool #Love #Longing #Song

15 Sep 2022

We’ve all played the fool at some point in our lives, especially in the name of love. Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers sang of it long before I sat down with my guitar and composed the following song. Sometimes we’ve played the fool for power, fame, or glory, fleeting as they are. Like King Solomon … More Whose Fool Are You? #Fool #Love #Longing #Song

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Longing for Innisfree

9 Nov 2021

For weeks now, there has been silence – the stationary pen that only marks the page of my journal when I nod off in bed. Some call it writer’s block; I call it “the dehydrated soul groping about in desert landscapes.” I feel like one of T. S. Eliot’s hollow men. I am a dried … More Longing for Innisfree

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