mentoring boys

Today was our monthly outing with the boys. Each month, myself and a few other men from the Sacramento area get together with a group of boys for connection, sharing, and learning. Our work is to model conscious manhood by being living examples to them. We work with...

guitar heroes

No, I’m not talking about the popular video game. Yesterday, I saw a film called It Might Get Loud which features Jack White (of the White Stripes), The Edge (of U2), and Jimmy Page (of The Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin). They share one main thing in common: they...

musical memory

 I heard music by Yusuf Islam this week from his latest album, Roadsinger. For those of you who aren’t aware, Yusuf used to call himself Cat Stevens in a former lifetime. You know, Peace Train, Moonshadow, etc. Not to worry, I haven’t changed spiritual...

musical flashback

I was in Starbuck’s this week meeting with a friend (yeah, I know it’s main stream corporate American culture) and, as I placed my soy steamer order (no coffee for me, thank you), there were CD’s of The Beatles (Abbey Road, Help, Rubber Soul) on the...