Yes indeed, Santa is real. I’ve always believed in him. Someone on Facebook recently posed that question, and I responded with an abbreviated version of the proof. If you look at the legend of Santa Claus as allegory, it’s fairly easy to unravel the mystery. Santa Claus is a spirit. The children’s ancient wondrous tale […]
Category: general thoughts
Equity In Creativity
Much has been said lately of the need to revisit the way recording artists are being paid. Especially now, in the midst of the pandemic driven life changes. The old accounting system is hopelessly arcane in this information age. Performance royalties are still based upon the old so-many-cents per spin at a radio station, which […]
Flight Safety and Life Parallels
I suppose training as a pilot has benefited me much more than just learning how to get off of and back onto the ground safely in an airplane. Thank goodness that aviation safety is a major part of earning one’s wings these days. In pilot training we learn about accident chains and how to avoid […]
Producer Psychology 101
In the course of my career as a musician, I’ve been blessed to have done things that other aspiring musicians have only dreamed of, complete with minor exposure to the national and international stage; to have had the opportunity to at least climb the foothills of that mountain. And I’ve been particularly blessed to have […]
Picking Yourself Up After Devastating Financial Loss
There’s no magic in this. No quick way out, click here and your woes go away. Or worse yet, pay me and I’ll take care of it for you. This is just a set of simple, plain common-sense solutions that will work, and can work amazingly well when consistently applied. As human creatures we have […]
Love = Time ??
As many know, there is a familiar saying that “love equals time.” While it’s true that we naturally gravitate toward activities and relationships that we love, those that satisfy our passions, there is a definite difference between love and time. The saying is partially correct, there is indeed a correlation, but they are not equal. […]
The Benefits of Silliness
Being serious, thoughtful, introspective all the time can be dull; evocative and provocative at times, yes, but dull. All work and no play makes Jack …, etc. Sometimes it’s necessary to be just plain silly. To engage in nonsense has its benefits for the soul. “It’s okay to be absurd, ridiculous, and downright irrational at […]
Musical Influence
Although I scarcely ever go out anymore into the bar music scene, I ventured out this past weekend to check out a band that I had been wanting to see and to scope out a room for its future show potential. I ran into a friend there who invited me to sit at a table […]
New Website for R Lee Townsend
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