Written with thoughts for Nodar Kumaritashvili who died at the 2010 Olympics. It was a one in a million chance...

I live near the beautiful ocean. This is a contemplative moment viewing the ocean from a small bluff. Dobro and mando.

I figure if I keep trying long enough, I'll start channeling the great Django Reinhardt. Perhaps it's like squeezing blood from a stone but if I get a drop or two, I'm happy with that!

Named after a painting which was named after a lovely little daily ritual I share with my best friend.

Sometimes a tune pops up right to left field. This is one of em! I backed it up with a stand-up bass track which I was intending to re-record before RPM submission but ran outta time.

This one is named after the resident cat who loved me dearly when I was a visitor. Now that I've moved in I'm pretty much only good for adminstering food and occasional petting- on the cat's terms of course!

The title came to me when I saw what impending maelstrom was headed our way on satellite imagry. Lots of space in this tune...

If "Jenny Blue" is the closer, and "Shrinking Violet" is the outro, then this is the postlude to the outro. The only track I played in real-time on from beginning to end. (No idea how I managed to pull that off..)

"Jenny Blue" was originally supposed to be the album closer, but this track seemed like a nice outro. (Definitely Tangerine Dream worship on my part.)

The last track from my RPM Challenge album, "The Loudest Silence". The story is loosely based on something I read, but there's a lot of poetic interpretation involved. It deals with people who spend a lot of time staring at the stars - like the…