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SmallTall Musings: October 2006
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Miscellaneous meanderings of a musical ministry. Saturday, October 28, 2006. Well, this "bi-vocational ministry" of music-making and home-making has been weighted pretty heavily toward the music-making lately, with 3 events this past week, finishing up the first "delivery" of new songs, and a painful learning process about converting recordings to mp3 files (though I now know how to make brand new audio files that sound remarkably like folk records from the 40s.). By the way, listening to Johnny Cash at ...
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SmallTall Musings: September 2006
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Miscellaneous meanderings of a musical ministry. Friday, September 29, 2006. Five years ago, when we burned 50 CDs of my first informal collection of 6 new children’s songs for the missional church, I would have laughed in your face if you’d told me I’d be doing what I’m doing now. I could trace the history-so-far of SmallTall Music. I am profoundly grateful for all these conversations, and I literally don’t know where I’d be without them. I’m glad that, with some of you, I’m able to keep in touch an...
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SmallTall Musings: unproductive... or fallow?
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Miscellaneous meanderings of a musical ministry. Thursday, May 27, 2010. Unproductive. or fallow? On the face of it, there doesn't seem to be much difference between a field (or a time) that is "unproductive" and one that is "lying fallow." In both cases, it's not "producing" a crop. And yet the difference - in our understanding - is immense. Unproductive" is a negative word. value comes from producing, right? This summer marks the completion of 7 years of my " SmallTall Music. It seems like a "desert" s...
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SmallTall Musings: February 2007
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Miscellaneous meanderings of a musical ministry. Monday, February 26, 2007. Some quotes (as approximate or accurate as my memory and hand-written scrawls could make them) from Raffi's "song and word presentation on Child Honouring" that we attended last week:. Maslow (of "Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs") decided to study people who are well. What a novel idea! He said: "Healthy individuation requires resisting unhealthy enculturation.". If we could re-design society for the benefit of the youngest of us!
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SmallTall Musings: forgotten songs
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Miscellaneous meanderings of a musical ministry. Tuesday, May 11, 2010. In the bathroom, about 2 minutes before the beginning of my concert in Akron, Pennsylvania, I suddenly realized: "Hey - I'm in Akron, Pennsylvania! Of course I'll understand if this flash of insight doesn't have quite the same effect on you as it did on me. It may strike you as just a tad obvious. But allow me to continue. The town of Akron PA, you see, is the headquarters of the Mennonite Central Committee. Now, how does it go again?
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SmallTall Musings: December 2006
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Miscellaneous meanderings of a musical ministry. Friday, December 22, 2006. I'll be taking a brief break from blogging as we celebrate Christmas. I'll be back, blogging like mad, in two weeks or so. Meanwhile, here are some wise words, heard on a hillside a long time ago:. And here are some more, heard regularly on CBC radio from Jasper Friendly Bear of Dead Dog Cafe:. Wait for the signs. Posted by Bryan Moyer Suderman @ 9:02 AM. Tuesday, December 19, 2006. Well, the only thing that stunk (stank? It's ti...
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SmallTall Musings: January 2007
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Miscellaneous meanderings of a musical ministry. Wednesday, January 31, 2007. It feels like I'm going through an abrupt seasonal shift. And no, this time I'm not talking about climate change. Now it seems I need to make the shift to a more "administrative" season, as I need to:. Get going on logistics for the new recording (figuring out who I will record with, where, when, how.). Take care of some detail stuff for my March tour. In Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana. Post my February delivery. Saturday, Jan...
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SmallTall Musings: "riding the rails" press release
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Miscellaneous meanderings of a musical ministry. Friday, March 26, 2010. Riding the rails" press release. Here's the press release I'm sending around in advance of the next leg of the tour. Riding the rails to share songs from Kansas to Kentucky. But why travel by train? While travel and performing is an important part of Moyer Suderman's work (he recently returned from Paraguay, where he was part of the song leading team at the recent Mennonite World Conference Assembly), he also struggles with how to c...
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SmallTall Musings: November 2006
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Miscellaneous meanderings of a musical ministry. Wednesday, November 29, 2006. This weekend we saw a wall hanging with words that "cut me to the quick," and, in a relatively rare moment of extravagance, we bought it. On the spot. Don't have a permanent place for it yet, but it's hanging now in my little room/studio/creative space where I can see it as I write. Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are all powerful. It is our light, not our darkness. On my first CD th...
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Not From Toronto | Exclaiming, Complaining, Explaining | Page 2
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Exclaiming, Complaining, Explaining. Newer posts →. November 9, 2009. Have you been wondering where my blog disappeared to? Fifteen is an eternity in the Interblogs, but thanks to the until-today-unbeknownst-to-me Worpress app for iPhone, the long dry spell may be at an end. MAY be. Stay tuned. An Open Letter To Joss Whedon. July 23, 2008. Dearest Mr. (Joss) Whedon,. I would like to propose a new paradigm of entertainment delivery that could provide more benefit to both yourself, the people you work with...
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