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Self-advocacy is an awkward exercise for me - it always has been.  What drives me is the writing itself.  The whole "look at me, look at me" aspect of being a singer songwriter is difficult.  Yet, in order to keep sustaining myself as a writer,  I have to find the right mix of those two things.  So, on my songs page of all places, I offer these thoughts.


I naturally gravitate towards surrendering to the process of writing and then performing a song.  It is the blend of the words and the music that make the expression complete.  It feels the best to me when I've expressed something that is true and vulnerable.  I look to be moved by music -- and that is what I ask of myself most in my songwriting process.  I say these things, here, in the hope that I can share the intimate struggle that I face in searching for these songs in myself and then having the courage to put them out there.

 
I hope the songs speak for themselves.