Didn't I

I wrote this song as a ladder on which climb up out of a dark depressive episode, by mocking my own self pity.  It worked.

I Fall Down

A reading of the great American poet Robert Frost's "Maple."  This, like so many of Frost's poems, comes alive when read aloud. The rhythm, alliteration, and onomatopoeia combine with the meaning of the words to create what Frost called "the sound of sense." 

Maple - RobertFrost

Ave Maria

06 Atom and Evening

07 Hymn #1

11 Castaway

Song: Wake Up
Author/Composer: Brian Monk 
Band: Underfoot

This is a song, sung to myself.  Sometimes I just want to grab myself by the collar and scream "Wake up!" in my face.  

Wake Up

Song: Elephant:
Author/Composer: Brian Monk (as Brian Jennings Wagoner)
Band: Underfoot

This song is about Father Hollis Dodge, a retired priest who lived deep in the woods in central Virginia.  His old house lay at the end of a long fire road that cut up a mountain and across two streams.  He had no electricity.  He read by lantern light.  He cooked with a wood stove, and ironed his clothes with an iron made of iron that was heated on that stove.  He showered in cold water from the stream.  Somehow, though, he would be the first to arrive where we worked, smiling, cheerful, well-groomed, ready with a kind word or a joke, and halfway through the crossword.  


Elephant

song: Between Epiphanies
author/composer: Brian Monk 
band: Underfoot 

A "hierophany" is a glimpse of infinity.  