Encourages us all periodically take a few moments to recall some of our most precious moments.

Song #1 “Remember It All“ – A song that encourages us to remember those moments of self development and to then smile when the memories of love drift by.

Song #2 “Raise Your Glass” – A toast to all of the folks that have helped us become the person that we are.

Song #3 “This Is It” – A happy positive upbeat song that gently reminds us to be aware of our everyday experience and to see the magic that exist there. “This is it – so please don’t miss it.”

Song #4 “Life Goes On” – A song written at four o’clock in the morning about letting some memories recede in their importance and moving on.

Song #5 “The Touch of Fall” – A loving song about being aware of the coming changes and living fully within those changes when they arrive.

Song #6 “Time Goes By” – A good time, friend song.

Song #7 “Remembering You” – Remembering the lives of Jesus, Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Things to think about as we approach the end of our lives.

Song #1 “We Won’t Be Here Forever“ – A bouncy upbeat song about realizing that to be able to live fully in this very moment is to give the greatest gift that we can to ourselves and to those around us. Tick.

Song #2 “What You See is What You Get” – Or on this radio show it’s what you hear is what you get.

Song #3 “One Last Song” – A song that asks us if we had one last song to sing, what would we choose to sing.

Song #4 “Before You Know It” – Time flies so be sure to let those people that you love know it and it’s better sooner than later.

Song #5 “The Leaf Must Fall” – The leaf must fall to feed the next growth that will rise up.

Song #6 “At the End Day” – What will we say at the end of our time here?

Song #7 “May You Rest in Peace” – A memorial song for someone that has throughout their life shared their love.

Song #8 “Before I Pack My Bags” – A departure song.

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We all confront some challenges in our lives and these songs were written in an attempt to renew a sense of hope during these times of turmoil.

Song #1 “ Who Would Ever Think?“ – A few words from the song. “You must keep on trying when the naysayers say ‘Nay.’  You must share your true love before you leave.”

Song #2 “The Road to the Top” – Through our sincere efforts to rise above the negativity that surrounds us we can one day become the love that we have always been in search of.

Song #3 “It’s Been a Long Hard Day” – If you’ve ever had a long hard day, this song might well reflect some of that experience.

Song #4 “Hold On” –  A song about a rough sea voyage that is analogous to times in our lives that are especially hard.

Song #5 “Turn Around” – If at anytime we feel like we’ve lost our way we can always turnaround and choose another road to go down.

Song #6 “I Was Lazy”  – A song that I wrote when I had gotten off track. I was being lazy and I was straying away from the path that I knew I should follow.

Song #7 “O’ That Dark Night” –  A song about one of those depressing dark nights that you think you just can’t survive, but by the end reveals some life sustaining light.

Song #8 “Come On and Sing Again” – A bouncy, uplifting song that reminds us to come back and sing again even when things seem their bleakest.

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On this week’s show I play some Fresh Toones that encourage others to share their creative endeavors. Whether they’re a part of one’s job or expressed as an interest through one of the arts we all have Fresh Toones to offer up for our fellow travelers.

Song #1 “Will Grow with Love” – The solution does sit quietly within us. If we are able to visualize what is possible then we might very well be able to one day spread our wings and obtain it.

Song #2 “Tell Me Your Story” – Tell us your story so we can learn and evolve from what you have to share. Hopefully, the more information that we have to work with, the more efficient will be our development into the potential beings that we can become.

Song #3 “I Can’t Draw a Circle” – An uplifting, happy song that reminds us that the most important thing is sharing our love and enjoying what we do.

Song #4 “If You Do Not Live It” –  If you do not live what you try to say in your art then it was better left undone. “Don’t feed your paintings ego just feed them on love.”

Song #5 “Blank Pages” – Like a blank canvas set up in front of the artist our lives are blank canvas’ for us to paint on. We are all artist that create our lives.

Song #6 “I’m Only Doing What Keeps Me Doing”  – A happy upbeat song that encourages us all to seek out and then to do the things that lift us higher. If we can keep doing the things that keep us doing our chances of finding some peace are much enhanced.

Song #7 “Dream Out Loud” –  A song about the joy that making our movies, our songs or any art gives us. Our creations are our love made visible. We need to become better dreamers and then builders to construct the world we want to be a part of.

Song #8 “Playing as the Breezes” – “If I could live the way I sing you know everything would be alright.”

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Taking a look at things that were done in America’s past that we need to take ownership of and then work towards correcting.

Song #1 “No Excuses” –Let’s stop making excuses and begin to paint America with a kinder face from here on out.

Song #2 “We’re So Civilized” – Often we think that we’re so civilized compared with other parts of the world. Perhaps, we should look more closely at some of our behavior.

Song #3 “Sad Day at Wounded Knee” – The story of the Wounded Knee Massacre and how we need to right this abhorrent wrong.

Song #4 “Give’m What They Want” – Get what you really want and don’t let them feed you with the often needless merchandise that is being pushed on us every day.

Song #5 “I Know Some People” – Sometimes people who once were down to earth lose their authenticity by pursuing endeavors that demand them to be someone other than themselves.

Song #6 “They Have No Home”  – A friend of mine has been working with many of the homeless in Rochester, New York. To be supportive of his and other’s efforts I shared this song to try and bring more attention to their needs.

Song #7 “I Wish I Could Say It” – A son asks his parents why more wasn’t done to try and limit the human behavior that was contributing to the destruction of our planet.

Song #8 “What Is It Worth?” – In the end, how much is it worth if you just end up selling yourself to the highest bidder?

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Song #1 “Stay True” – A simple song about staying true to oneself.

Song #2 “You’ll Need Your Love Tomorrow” – A song that reminds us that if our anger should start to consume us we need to do our best to hang onto our love.

Song #3 “Fly Towards Your Purpose” – We each have our purpose here and we need to be careful that at some point we don’t start to “pivot” towards the expectations of others.

Song #4 “Be Yourself” – Nothing more needs to be said.

Song #5 “Play It Pure” – Play it from your heart and less to meet the demands of the audience.

Song #6 “Let Your Love Be You” – “Let your love be your sunlight. Let your love be your compass. Let your love… let your love be you.”

Song #7 “Part of You” – We are part of IT all and all of IT is part of us.

Song #8 “Who You Are” – A fun, upbeat song that encourages us all to realize that if we can sing our songs honestly and live our lives sincerely then our experience here will be much fuller.

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Song #1 “Thirty Long Years and More” – A joyful, happy song about the struggles and rewards of being a songwriter. Always be true to your song and you’ll always be where you belong.

Song #2 “Ridin’ This Train” – My experiences of growing up and living in the USA are re-examined on this surrealistic train trip across the country and through history.

Song #3 “I’m Still Singing” – A celebratory song about the joys of doing what you love to do.

Song #4 “Movin’ Kinda Slow” – Sometimes moving a little slower than the normal pace of most people can actually gets you to the place that you want to be quicker.

Song #5 “Brown Paper Sack” – My very first song.  Written in early 1971.

Song #6 “Just an Underground Hippie” – I’ve never been much interested in groupthink and this was how I navigated the sixties. I never spoke the lingo, never got into drugs, but I could relate to what a lot of folks were searching for and I learned a lot from that time of my life.

Song #7 “I Grew Up in a Regular Family” – At the age of 22 years old I began to reassess what was meant by the “regular” tenets that I was brought up on.

Song #8 “I Still Believe It’s True” – A love song about the lasting believe that our love can continue grow and become clearer with our sincere efforts.

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Song #1 “I Can’t Stop Looking” – We may be easily distracted sometimes, but our search for an authentic love beyond the simply defined ones is our true quest.

Song #2 “Take Me Home” – A song that requests some assistance in getting back to a place where I once understood my love more clearly.

Song #3 “Looking for the Love Within” – My one and only song that I sing a cappella.

Song #4 “I Wish I Could Know” – A simple song that expresses my attempts to come to know my love.

Song #5 “As I Look”– “As I look.  The more I see. That we can come to know our love.”

Song #6 “We’re Looking” – We may distract our lives for a long time with the pursuit of many other things, but in the end we are really trying to come to understand our love. This pursuit may evade us for many years, but for many of us there will be a day when our love taps us on the shoulder and we turn to realize that it is what we have been searching for our whole lives.

Song #7 “Come to Know Your Love” – A song that encouraging us all to put more of our efforts into understanding a greater love.

Song #8 “Let Your Love Be You” – “Let your love be your sunlight. Let your love be your compass. Let your love… let your love be you.”

Song #9 “Have You Ever Woke Up?” – Sometimes, we need to shake ourselves and wake up. It’s a good morning when we wake up to the love that we hold within and let it all come out.

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Song #1 “Woody Said” – Advice from Woody Guthrie about taking life easy.

Song #2 “Oh, Malala” – A song for Malala Yousafzai. What a brave young woman Malala is. If we could even be half as courageous as her in the struggle for justice, this world would be so much better off.

Song #3 “Sweet Melinda” – A bouncy original song about a superstar who comes back down to earth with a rough landing.

Song #4 “Yacouba – The Village Fool” – This is an environmental song about how important it is to sometimes look at things differently so we can find new solutions. Yacouba Sawadogo did just that and he helped to hold back the desert from taking his farm and those of his neighbors.

Song #5 “The Kingmaker”– A song about a hired gun for a presidential candidate.

Song #6 “Remembering You” – Remembering the lives of Jesus, Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Song #7 “When Love is All You’ve Got” – An upbeat song written for a documentary “Girl of the Finger Lakes” that I made about my mother’s life. She was born in 1919 and was a young girl during the Depression. She grew up on a farm in the Finger Lake area of New York State.and lived most of the rest of her life in Rochester, New York.

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Song #1 “If I Could Only” – A humorous look back at some youthful hopes and dreams. In the end this bouncy song should leave one hopeful for the future when a lot empty goals are put aside.

Song #2 “It’s a Treat to See the Sun Rochester” – A song for a city, Rochester, NY,  that used to set the record for the least amount of sunshine for many winters. It speaks highly of the friends I got to know there.

Song #3 “Self Employed” – This song tells the story of one person’s struggle to break away from the tortures of working for someone else and succeeding on their own.

Song #4 “Just Make Me Laugh” – An introspective, philosophical examination on the all consuming needs of some to only want to laugh through life and not have to think.

Song #5 “Making Us All Look Nuts”– Sometimes our politics in the U.S. seem so bizarre to the rest of the world that they just shake their heads and wonder what we we’re thinking.

Song #6 “Things Will Be Better Soon” – If we’re always waiting for things to get better soon before we enjoy life then we might miss an awful lot of good stuff along the way.

Song #7 “The Turtle Soup Trot” – A bike adventure song about a friend with a green parka that had a spill in the rain on some railroad tracks.

Song #8 “The Party Song” –A bouncy song about attending a party that I wished I hadn’t.

Song #9 “Little Ditties” –We’re all gonna  “sing our little ditties and act a little silly and make our lives complete.”

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