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The Joy of Rain

Dec 4, 2014 By elinwaldal 10 Comments

It’s no secret that California has been suffering from drought. In case you aren’t sure what that looks like…here’s a visual from Central Valley.     Living further south than the image above, I have often felt starved for weather. Come fall, without fail, I threaten to move. Given we have lived in SoCal for 18 […]

Filed Under: Music, NaBloPoMo Dec 14 Tagged With: Joy, Music, NaBloPoMo Dec 14

Music that Speaks a Truth

Nov 29, 2014 By elinwaldal 5 Comments

How often do you find you relate to the words of a song?  It seems to me that countless musicians have the uncanny ability of singing, what I think of as, some form of universal truth. Today I am really missing Jen Kehl’s, Twisted Mix Tape Tuesdays. TMTT was a blog hop where bloggers from all over […]

Filed Under: Music, NaBloPoMo Nov 14 Tagged With: Honesty, Music, NaBloPoMo14, Realtionships, Truth

Birds on a Wire (Persepective: Day 4)

Feb 4, 2014 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 7 Comments

It is well known in our family that I am obsessed with birds on a wire. In fact it is not uncommon if when another family member Jimmy spots them before I do, then they he will say shout, “Look there are your birds on a wire!” His enthusiasm connotes I own all things related […]

Filed Under: For the Love of Nature, Music Tagged With: Beauty, Birds on a Wire, Music, nature, Photography

A Text Message, The Voice, and James

Nov 5, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 16 Comments

Last night while fretting obsessing over a formatting issue on a blog post I was trying to publish for my website, I received a text message from Jimmy. He was downstairs. This has become one of our habits. I mean it is easy. Sometimes it can even feel like a guilty pleasure, now don’t go […]

Filed Under: Marriage, Music, NaBloPoMo13 Tagged With: James Wolpert, Music, Technology, The Voice

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