These days I’m deep in the shed and studio writing new music and completing arrangements for the Rebel Tumbao recording that’s coming up in August. A huge part of my process is delving deeply into current progressive (if not revolutionary!) thinking, with deep inspiration from Frances Moore Lappe, at the moment, Naomi Klein (I’m reading “The Shock Doctorine”), but also, on the other side of the spectrum, I’m reading Milton Friedman’s “Capitalism and Freedom” (pretty much the road map for laissez-faire Capitalism) and I’m listening to conservative hard core right talk radio. To me it’s important to understand all viewpoints. From this I’m crafting lyrics for new music for the project.

I am saddened by not being able to make it to the US Social Forum taking place NOW, BUT, most recently I listened to David Korten’s talk at the 2009 Green Festival in Seattle: