Chuck Perrin

we’re on the ride we can’t go back there’s no way off we just keep moving till it ends trying our best to lean g r a c e f u l l y into every turn it all goes by way too fast doesn’t seem to matter that we didn’t ask for any of… [ read more ]

A good friend of mine lost his father to cancer yesterday. It got me thinking about my own father, also gone. I was with him when he had a stroke, 3 years ago this month. Why is it so hard for us to come to grips with the reality of death? Every one of us… [ read more ]

On this day in 1922 on an Air Force base in Nogales, Arizona – Charles Mingus was born. Life crackled and bristled around him, creative sparks snapped through the music he made — like flames finding sap in dry wood You could say he was unique. He knew what he wanted on the bandstand: the… [ read more ]