During past visits to your mother’s elder care community, you’ve passed by this big dining room dozens of times. On occasion, you’ve eaten here, too. But never before today have you glimpsed the piano, stowed…
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Today I’m sharing an original song with you. Enjoy my home recording. LIKE THE SEA Phyllis Cole-Dai A song of blessing When the day is wide And the road is open and clear like…
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You ever gone through a long stretch where major responsibilities were pulling you in several directions at once? When all you could do was breathe and keep going, trusting that you’d get to the end…
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Imagine that a family’s life is a tree with lots of branches extending from its trunk. Some of the branches on the tree I’ve been growing with my husband and son include “Trips,” “Celebrations,”…
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A brief roundup for May, as I'm currently out of studio, traveling with Jihong and Nathan. We're on a whirlwind roadtrip to North Carolina, Virginia, and Washington, DC. Once we get back to South Dakota,…
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Too much grief. Too much hate. The killing of Alton Sterling, the killing of Philando Castile, the police ambush in Dallas ... these ongoing tragedies make clear that our nation is diseased. The disease…
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I put this music montage together some years back but decided to post it today as another cry of protest against the hateful rhetoric dominating so much of the current political discourse in the United…
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Good news!I've just released "A Mother's Letter to TransCanada & Big Oil," a video inspired by a conversation with Nathan, my 10-year-old son, about the Keystone XL pipeline and tar sands mining.I'm now selling the…
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