New EP out...

I released a new EP of electronic music last week. You can download it for free here.

It was made in response to the RPM (Radio Production Month) Challenge. It features collaborations based upon words, phrases, or poems given to me by others, upon which I composed a tune (in addition to drawing inspiration from their own lives for the key signature, time signature, tempo marking, and instrumentation).

I look forward to next year's challenge...

Ash Wednesday

It is Ash Wednesday. For some reason, that makes me feel good...

You would think a time that causes one to examine their faults would be a sorrowful, or discouraging time. Yet, I enjoy Ash Wednesday.

I like seeing the dark purple and praying for God's grace...

I savor the aroma of the incense wafting, smoldering, as I kneel before my Maker and express my sorrow to Him...

I enjoy sealing people's foreheads with the sign of cross with ash, made from the palm leaves of last year's jubilant Palm Sunday celebration...

I appreciate feeling the cool ashes applied to my own forehead, receiving the sign of forgiveness and blessing...

I love knowing God loves me...that overwhelms me...

That is why, on this most solemn of days, I feel good...