I’ve done a fair amount of recording—everything from singing jingles to make a few extra bucks in university, to background vocals for local bands and artists, to singing guide tracks, to recording actual real songs for albums. Some of the projects were purely for financial gain, some were for fun, some were favours, some were born of my commitment to…
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A Door of Hope
To begin, a disclaimer: my middle name is “Metaphor.” If you know me at all, or have read any of my essays, you’ve likely ascertained that I see all of life in pictures. Analogies are how I understand everything. For better or for worse, my brain searches for and assigns meaning to every single situation (the jury is still out…
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Understanding & Being Understood
This is a contributor piece I wrote for the Joy of It blog. Read the full essay HERE. “The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood.” — Ralph Nichols My thought process began from within the confines of staff bathroom stall where inspirational literature is often photocopied and taped haphazardly at toilet-eye-level to…
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Looming Shadows: Some Thoughts on Avoidance
Ugh, I recognize this feeling. I know it well. It gives me flashbacks to university; that something hanging over your head feeling, that dreading a due date feeling. But not being able to get to it just yet, because there are sixty-five other things in the queue ahead of it. I’m living in the shadow of a looming deadline. The deadline was…
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How I Want To Be Remembered (Lessons From My Nan)
I have this great need to be meaningful—to do something monumental with my life and to leave artifacts in my wake that will be remembered. Part of it is certainly a personality thing, but part of it is just a human thing. We are made for meaning. To varying degrees, we all want to leave our mark; to be impactful…
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