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Do all trees weep?

Do all trees weep, Or do they stand and Suffer us to live beneath Them unawares That there are those whose height And times stretch further than Our own, Whose reach is more eternal And whose loyalty is pure, unfeigned And firm from earth to sky?
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Organic Gestures

I’ve added some electro-acoustic music to my music page, which was previously absent for no good reason. No good reason at all: Organic Gestures: Out of An Echo, Humming, and From the Porch. In fact, although I wrote and recorded these three pieces 5-6 years ago (2005-2006), I’m quite fond of them listening again some [...]
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Our Winter’s Hero

Under the weathered awning, the vagrant’s joints began To ache, hiding from the rain, he scratched his Roughened, feeble knees and cast his sunken eyes Up and down the thoroughfare. Storm subsiding, and Then a biting wind. He had sat there long enough To know a cold snap when he felt it, twitched his Hirsute [...]
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The desert island

I’m beginning to acquire a practical understanding of just how futile artwork is in a vacuum. I believed it before. I knew it in my mind. But I now feel it sinking into my gut. Actually experiencing it is something else entirely. Although I would likely dance on a desert island, and probably clang coconuts [...]
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Mahogany Gallant

Mahogany gallant         Kinkade treasures         giddy frappes and cappuccino cluttered corners         contribute to it. That’s what I say         Am I in this triptych?         Take me outside, tuckered up and running         night’s pitch and stoking stars brighten shades. Witness this, the best of all.
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Cotton Wood Lining video now available

A video of Cotton Wood Lining, a new work commissioned by somebodies dance theater and performed on September 11th, 2010, at the around/about Contemporary Dance Festival, is now available. Check it out on it’s own page, or view below. Cotton Wood Lining from Sam L. Richards on Vimeo.
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September Haiku in Michigan

Yesterday fall struck In the winds I can smell the trees turn to rainbows
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Suite of Roads, Movement II.

Video (and audio, of course!) is now posted of the Eugene Contemporary Chamber Ensemble’s May 13th, 2010 performance of Suite of Roads, a two-movement work for orchestra. The movements, severely contrasting in style and energy from one another, have been posted on separate days, with the first movement along with the works program notes having [...]
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Suite of Roads, Movement I.

Video (and audio, of course!) is now posted of the Eugene Contemporary Chamber Ensemble’s May 13th, 2010 performance of Suite of Roads, a two-movement work for orchestra. The movements, severely contrasting in style and energy from one another, will be posted on separate days, with the second movement coming tomorrow. My program notes from the [...]
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Some poetic residue

The nature of my creative process leaves me with sketchbooks littered with seemingly disassociated concepts. Stray idea gobs hang from folded corners, and outlines of amoebas filled with gorgeousness sit atop the pages. Sometimes I glance back, even just a few days, discovering snippets that could easily have been penned by someone else, because I [...]
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