Archives for 2014

Spanish spoken in Andalusia sounds quite different, to that spoken in Madrid.

To the inexperienced ear it can be hard to understand one region’s spoken Spanish to that of another.

If you know both accents when someone is speaking your language in that “other” twang, you are doing better at communicating.

Obvious. Yet often unnapreciated.

So it’s a thought, as tohow many languages there really are, in the world.

If I refuse to write and you refuse to speak, what should we publish?

I no-one will accept your money at the cash register, how will you buy anything?

If nobody presents finished and ready-to-consume entertainmemnt, will you provide your own?

You have many stories to tell. We all do.

No need to cry. But at times you know you should.

Hopefully much of the time laughter seems OK.

And laughter, my friends, is good for you.

So good – i’m off to write a joke.

Bye now!

“Whiskey and women” are the substantial backstory components of many old blues songs.

We have progressed. Perhaps.

Now it is wheatgrass juice and green tea….or something of the sort.

When you enjoy your morning coffee chai or fresh squeezed acai juice…imagine the songs you could create.

Music still resonates.

There is more to be learned from observing life, than merely by paying attention in the classroom.

Formal lessons have their place. But it is well worth questioning what benefit that may be, and whether something is missing from the mix.

We can add something more, something better, and perhaps that something or several things, will be created by you.