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Christopher posts new creations here every month, including music, original articles, poems and music videos! (His new music tracks are also usually available everywhere across the Web, although you can usually download them here for free.) Recently, he’s been releasing tracks from three brand new album projects: Wild Ideas, The Heart Chronicles and a Christmas album, Songs of the Season. You can listen to and/or download most of those tracks below. You’ll also find a collection of Fan Favorites, for those of you visiting for the first time! He’s also publishing a new blog called Resources for Sanity and Survival, with new additions almost every month.
Please stop by every month to see and hear what’s new—and if you like what you find, please share it with your friends!

A Special Note:

I recently discovered that my “Contact” page on this website hasn’t been forwarding messages to me. Apparently, this has been going on for several years without my knowledge! (Yikes…) So, if you’ve sent me a message any time in the past few years and failed to get a reply, my sincere apologies. I never saw your note! However, the problem has now been fixed.

Again, if I missed your message, I apologize. Please try again, and I promise to reply!!

This month I’m releasing a new song from my HEART CHRONICLES collection. This song, Pointing the Finger, is all about refusing to let hard times darken our perspective. When times are tough, it’s easy to blame our problems on someone else. The trouble is, doing that gives that person (or group) power over you that they shouldn’t really have. As the new song says:

It’s easy to point the finger; it’s not hard to make somebody pay
But I’m not going to dump on everybody else just because I’m having a terrible day
I used to think like a victim, but it was much too big a price to pay
‘Cause when you blame your problems on somebody else
You give your freedom away

In the Heart Chronicles story, this song opens Act Two, signaling that the thrill of falling in love expressed in Act One is now running up against the downer of day-to-day problems. But our protagonist isn’t going to let it get him down!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To read the lyrics to Pointing the Finger, click here!

As those of you who’ve read my book Staying Off the Wheel of Misfortune know, I’ve always been a student of human behavior, and I’m always on the lookout for insights and useful advice to incorporate into my books and songs. I’m dipping into that reservoir once again to share some of the most helpful advice I’ve found for dealing with situations of great uncertainty, stress and loss.

Getting Past Impossible

Want to change the world for the better? The first step is believing it’s possible.

Taking a Break from Stress with Immersion Listening

By listening in the right way, you can elevate music to a multidimensional experience — and by choosing the right music, that experience can be one of profound peace and joy.

Hope for the New Year!

Four Positive Things You Probably Don’t Know About the Current Crisis

Democracy in Crisis, 2020  

An unconventional perspective about how we got here—and what might come next.

How to Stay Sane During Massive Change

Strategies for maintaining peace of mind and staying effective in the midst of world upheaval.

Songs of Peace, Hope, Joy and Grace

A dozen songs from Christopher’s first four albums that can help you stay calm and hopeful in challenging times.

A Quorum of Pithy Quotes for Pandemic Quarantine!

A collection of wise and witty quotes from Einstein, Groucho Marx, Bozo the Clown, Robert Frost, H.G. Wells, George Carlin, Mark Twain, Andy Rooney and many, many more!

Some Quotes of Note for Those Who Vote

A second collection of wise and witty quotes….

Yes, We’re In the Midst of a Crisis. Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Lose Hope

In nature, change happens in cycles that include a periodic collapse like the one we’re going through right now. If we’re lucky, whatever happens in the next couple of years will leave us with a stronger democracy and a country better able to achieve its highest ideals.

Solving the Unsolvable

Sometimes solving the toughest problems requires solving a meta-problem first.

Marching Toward Waterloo

Today’s tyrants and dictators (both established and aspiring) are about to face the same enemy that really defeated Napoleon – and it wasn’t an opposing army.

 

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Here are the previous releases from Christopher’s album project: Wild Ideas — Songs From the Edge! (Click on the images below to hear the songs!)

 

Here are the previous releases from Christopher’s album project: The Heart Chronicles! (Click on the links below to hear the songs!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click to hear the songs!

 

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Click to read (or listen to) the poems!