Month: January 2023

At last atop the mountain

we catch our breaths and look back

at the sound of avalanche as

the path of our ascent vanishes

beneath a great collapse.

When the fury settles

only cliff remains

the path no more

our only hope of return

along a razor’s edge

traversing the abyss

to another peak,

the further side

invisible.

Or we may remain here.

a link for all the downloading/streaming/listening options for Through the Fire.

 https://throughthefiretoddwalton.hearnow.com/

and a link to where one can buy the actual CD of Through the Fire

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BRSNHR6H/ref=dm_rwp_pur_lnd_albm_unrg

Blessings and Thanks

What a wonderful terrible fabulous frightening exciting perilous hopeful disastrous promising time we live in.

Our friend Abi came to visit. We spoke of aches and pains and aging and death and calamity and the ascendancy of cruelty and selfishness, and then Abi said, “Oh let’s dance.”

So we put on Ray Charles and boogied around the living room for ten minutes and the world was made new and glorious again.

Speaking of new and glorious, my friend Diane Pool recently posted a video entitled Being Alive on YouTube featuring her beautiful photographs accompanied by lovely words from Maria Popova, with my piano improvisation La Entrada as soundtrack.

We are starting to hear from people who have been listening to our new CD Through the Fire. The early reviews are heartening and inspiring. If you’d like to hear our album of music and stories, here are links to

a site that will give you all the downloading/streaming/listening options for Through the Fire.

a link to where you can buy the actual CD of Through the Fire

Happy New Year!