DLM # 82 The Dancer Gives No-Fear

Dancing and making personal choices about which energies to cultivate in ourselves are activities that go hand in hand. See what you make of it.

DLM # 81 Not Wasting Our Wounds

Plumbing the depths of our wounds can teach us a great deal about who we are and until we better understand who we are we can keep making blunders that hurt ourselves and others. Hence the logic of looking into this matter.

DLM # 80 We Are saying Thank You, Dark Though It Is

As we shift gears and enter the autumn and wintertime of the year, I find I’m shifting gears with the music, too. Feels good to listen to slow music and just groove to it while cooking and folding the laundry. Walks in the woods or a quiet park in the morning with our music sounds nice, too. It’s time to cultivate yin energies so we can all cool it all down a bit already, slow down and listen more, to our friends, and even to our ideological “enemies.” Peace comes from within, not from events outside of us.

DLM # 78 The Devils By Their Flight Give Praise

We make peace and freedom and love and beauty with our actions. We give praise or we defile. We can’t always be perfect, we can only strive to give voice to harmony. Never more important than in the coming week.

Peter Green’s album, Little Dreamer, is this week’s mix. I listened to it a hundred times in the last few days. It has a great calming power.


DLM # 77 Drive Out The Loudmouths

Please forgive me for I am running on empty, as I imagine so many of us are these days. I have been listening to some of the earliest mixes I began offering here and this one, the third one, has really captured my heart this week. I share it with you in hopes that it will inspire your poetic heart to stay close at all times to beauty and to love. In every single moment, choose love. You won’t always succeed, just as I don’t always succeed, but it’s the true north to which all our compasses should be pointing. It’s a kind of striving for the perfection of character. It’s the trying and trying again (and again, and again) that counts. Music, beauty, poetry, dancing, these are our allies in the quest for love.

DLM # 74 Where Consumerism and Liberation Converge In Meaning

I’m convinced that if we reduce our consumption we can turn the ship around. It takes disicipline and awareness, though, and you can’t really have either of those when you’re operating from the sphere of unexamined ego desires. This is why evolving is a kind of work—it takes consistent effort.

Let’s see what we can do this week, eh?

Big love.

DLM # 73 Liberty Is A Personal Choice

Offered with love, a heavy-duty, life versus death sermon. Which are you inadvertently choosing? Listen and find out.

The music for today is the first digital mixtape I ever made. My friend, Chris Lam, was showing me how to create a playlist on iTunes and burn it to a CD. These were the songs I picked for it. It has stood the test of time for it was made in 2005. I listened to it the other day in the car and had a lot of fun.

DLM # 72 The Crossroads Of Liberty And Enslavement

Hope you and yours are well. The world is growing more serious by the day and our involvement in it—the way we behave, the things we say and do and think—has rarely been more crucial.

We are responsible for all of it, not the politicians, not those we disagree with.

DLM # 71 Are You A Human Being Or A Cow?

If you are an avid social media user you may not like what you hear this week. It cannot be helped. We need to wake up big time and that means hearing truths about who we have become that are uncomfortable for us to hear but necessary so that real change can start to occur. These are sermons, after all!

A thousand apologies. I have a temporary but full-time job that’s eating all my time so we will listen to tunes from Dr. Dunks this week.

DLM # 69 Travel Beyond The Kiddie Pool of Consciousness

A free-style sermon today in honor of jazz musician, Wynton Marsalis.

Please remember, folks, that if you want to save the world you have to first rescue your own consciousness from the ideological propaganda systems that control it. Both sides are doing this to us so moving beyond binary systems has to do with more than just gender identity politics. It has to do with the politics of power in general.

I’m linking to this amazing interview with Marsalis from Friday night, you must see it. He talks about things in ways no one else is doing—profound, heavy-duty, grade-A truth.

For music this week, I only have one song because I want to encourage you to listen to Marsalis’ new album, The Ever Fonky Lowdown.