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A singer, a songwriter, a composer, an author. A poet through and through.

— David Kennedy

Nice to Meet You

In a world that can get ugly, I try to make beautiful things. Here you will find the latest of my art, in whatever form that may be. May it reach you in some small, meaningful way.

Today, there's always someone out there telling you where to go, how to get there, and what it'll be like when you do. Don't let somebody else optimize you out of living your own life. I want to inspire you to have the courage to go your own way.

16 Mar

Wayfinding

What is wayfinding? It's what we used to do before anyone had all the answers. When maps were at best a good start on a journey that was otherwise yours.

13 Jan

13 January, 2026

A short meditation on our tendency as artists to cannibalize our own best work.

08 Jan

08 January, 2026

Sometimes what we tend to think of as linear processes may be better understood as non-linear, interconnected, and intricately responsive wholes (or gestalten).

06 Jan

06 January, 2026

Art is all about impressions. Just because you want something to feel a certain way doesn’t mean it has to be that way.

05 Jan

An Update on the New Year

I think as a writer there is a lasting tension between the things you want to be on the record for as having said, and the things that might better reach your readers because they are said differently.

11 Nov

11 Nov. 2025

In regard to taking a chance on ourselves, most of our fears essentially boil down to being afraid of failing in public. And there is some validity here. I don't think we should do away with this fear entirely, pretending for even a moment that we could.

31 Aug

See For Yourself

What does adventure look like in a world that has largely been explored? Today, when we have questions, it’s because we don’t know; in the past, because no one knew. That’s a very different world. And today I ask…is the world really at our fingertips if everything is already in arm’s reach? It may be...

27 Jun

Death by Proxy

I want you to answer this question honestly: What’s the weather like today? Being the year 2025, there’s a chance you reached for your phone just now. That was me the other day. Standing in my living room just 2 steps from the door, wondering what the weather was like outside. But I didn’t open...

24 Apr

Another Look at Imagination

I think that in many ways “talent” is an adolescent idea that we unknowingly carry with us into adulthood, failing to question its worth or validity ever again.

13 Apr

The Myth of Talent

I think that in many ways “talent” is an adolescent idea that we unknowingly carry with us into adulthood, failing to question its worth or validity ever again.

11 Apr

Humble Beginnings Are The Only Beginnings

The smaller thing that you will actually do is often worth more than the larger thing that you’ll only think of doing. At a first pass, this seems rather simple and obvious. But therein lies another lesson—the most powerful notions are often the ones that lack the complexity to be anything else. As the saying...

11 Apr

If But For A Chance

On Suffering, Meaning, and the Path to Paradise I often wonder how I should begin when writing to a stranger. So much of what makes our lived experience so deep is in the stories that we carry with us, whether our own or that of others. And so much of what makes conversation so meaningful...

18 Jan

The Everyway

A Little Blues

Forever

Clouds O’er Fields of May

Nice to Meet You

Wayfinding

13 January, 2026

08 January, 2026

06 January, 2026

An Update on the New Year

11 Nov. 2025

See For Yourself

Death by Proxy

Another Look at Imagination

The Myth of Talent

Humble Beginnings Are The Only Beginnings

If But For A Chance

There Must Be More Than You

In Matters of Play

The Man in the Corner