Tonight, I’m launching something I’ve been working on for some time – adding my voice and narration to the blog. I’m using an audio sharing app, Itunes and a voice recording program to post audio – I’ll do poems, commentary, excerpts from my books, occasional musings about philosophy, animals, and also some anecdotes from the farm. I share photos and words, why not my voice.

This is a powerful new tool for writers who wish to share their work and ideas with their readers, a new way of our inter-acting with one another. A kind of informal podcast. This will not replace words but occasionally supplement them, a new way to use the creative tools we have to…well, be creative.

My first broadcast, accompanied by a photo of Deb and Jake, two beautiful lambs, both gone now. And I read from my notes that helped me begin the first chapter of my next, next book “Lessons From Bedlam Farm,” out in 2018 and just underway. I use italic notes to help me get started on new chapters and these were about the lessons I learned in just one week of living on my farm, one of the great teachers in my life.

So welcome to the voice of me, hopefully the first of many and thanks for coming along on this ride with me as I seek to re-invent the life of an author in the new world. I do not intend to be irrelevant. Thanks for supporting me.  I love the challenge of creativity, and thanks to my good friend John Greenwood for inspiring me to do this and for helping me to do it. He did it a year ago.

I think my next offering will be a poem from Hafiz.