Yes (The Band) and The Importance of Music

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On September 13th, I saw Yes (the Anderson, Rabin, Wakeman version) at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts. A couple of years ago, I saw the Squire, Howe, White version of Yes. Back in the ’90s, I caught the combined group on the Union tour at George Mason University.

No matter the tour, not matter the line up, the band doesn’t disappoint.

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Death, Music, and Inspiration

Our musicians continue to leave us . . .

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The Hard Words

Recently, I posted about writing difficulties: understanding poetry and getting the right amount of emotion into a piece. Going back as far as late spring, the words have been hard. I didn’t know why they were hard, only that they were. I chalked it up to finishing my novel, Shifting Mars’ Sands, with a writers’ … Read more