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Good parenting moments

Driving carpool back from Middle School today, my 13 year-old took my iphone and played: 15 Step by Radiohead, Intro and Crysalized by XX, and The Way We Get By by Spoon.
I will never be as cool as she is.

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Theraputic Bunnies

Cute animal vids are my antidepressant of choice. They make everything better.

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Hi.

I’ve been off tour for a little while now, getting to see my wife and kids and friends and generally have a quiet, semi-normal life. I like it. Cooking new foods (okonomiyaki was the latest adventure), hiking in the hills, running, breaking out the paddleboard when it’s warm enough. Doing laundry.

My creative efforts have been split between producing a few songs for my friend Cory Sipper, co-writing with some new artists, composing a few spec pieces for tv, and making the first stabs at songs for a new (already overdue) solo record.

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End of the Year

What a strange 365 days it’s been. Lots of touring, lots of music, not quite enough hometime. News headlines strange enough to make me check twice to make sure I’m not reading the Onion. Seen lots of some friends, nowhere near enough of others. Procrastinated about a moldy wall, organizing receipts, cleaning closets and dogs, painting rooms, repairing gadgets, selling spare gear, getting some kind of plan for the future. Hope for positive change, despair at the continuing ascendence of fear and pettiness. Increased faith in the goodness of individuals, decreased faith in our ability to move back from corporatocracy to democracy. Delight in many small miracles including but not limited to yeast, living soil, the digestive system, caramelized onions, infinite multiverses, the human mind, the coffee bean, the power of human creativity, laughter, soap. Hoping that I will be able to act from my clearest, most intelligent, most compassionate self more often in the new year. Hoping that whoever I’m speaking to right now does the same. It’s felt like a fallow time. Here’s to the hope of seedlings well tended in 2010.

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fires…Yes, we're ok.

I’m getting lots of calls and emails about the fire. Thanks for the kindness and concern.

We’re not in the path or the evacuation areas, and won’t be unless the fire makes some pretty incredible jumps. Once again, though, we have a number of friends who are evacuated, and a few who have pretty much certainly lost their homes. It’s been a heavy year out here for fires. There’s a mandatory evacuation all the way to the main downtown drag (State Street), which is something I never thought I’d see.

Anyway – fingers crossed for friends and strangers alike.

Here’s a couple of snapshots I took on the way home from the airport yesterday:

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