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Original Music from Brian Dyer Stewart #50

Dear family, friends, and fellow travelers,

    The song this cycle is Crossing Over, an improvised piano piece from the last couple of weeks - you'll see a few hesitations in the playing and so on, but the tune seemed to me to capture something of this season as we pass the winter solstice and find, hopefully, some quiet and reflective time before heading into the new year and the return of the light.

Original Music from Brian Dyer Stewart #48

Dear family, friends, and fellow travelers,

    The song this cycle is Life Is Like a Car, written in the early 90s when two friends whom I had worked with on peace and justice issues were leaving the area.  I remember finishing the last verse in the basement of the church where we were having their going-away party.  Susan Merrill helped me with thoughts and feedback and we sang it together later that evening. It's a song that circles my chest often during times of farewells and passings and just deep friendship remembered. 

Original Music from Brian Dyer Stewart #47

Dear family, friends, and fellow travelers,

    The song this cycle is First Love, written in 2015 on my way to song writers' retreat.  The tune had been circling around my brain - a nostalgic melody - and the words were jotted down as I drove along I-95 south.  I didn't get around to recording it until the end of that year - that's me on vocals, piano and my only concertina recording (so far).  A good fall song in terms of bitter-sweet and oh, that autumn moon - we had just such a one this last full moon. 

Original Music from Brian Dyer Stewart #43

Dear family, friends, and fellow travelers,

    The song this cycle is Heart in the Sky, written at song writer's retreat in 2016; I made a simple recording later that fall. 

    Spring is finally in full flower here in Downeast Maine, apples in bloom, lilacs just beginning.  I was on the road for a couple weeks visiting my daughter and her family - our newest grandson and was so happy to be with them and also so happy to come home to Maine.

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