WELCOME Warm greetings dear traveler, and welcome to my outpost in the far reaches of this e-wasteland.... hitch your cyber colts to the post and come in for a cold ginger brew. How you ended up way out here is anybody's guess, but I'm glad you stopped in. Put your feet up and rifle through the pages of my weblife.... you naughty little voyeur, you.   I have trekked far and wide this year.....made new friends and family in the wild west and the heat-stricken european climes. From Cambridge to Stockholm......Wyoming to New York, backpackers at Stonehenge to Italian waiters in London, cowboys and border collies on the red rocks, to yachtsfolk on the deep blue Atlantic. It's been "goodbye chicken goodbye". Let's us call it one more Year of the Pheonix. Takes a sturdy set of wings to fly from devestation to resurrection, from the hard rocks to new soft places. From diving headlong into book collaboration, rappin' house music, spanish dance tracks, and becoming part of the Nashville Underground, it has been one more year in the life of a creator.   For those of you who might welcome some swivel stool psychology....here are a few things I've come to lately.....ok, I've always known them.....I wrote some of them into songs decades ago, but they've resurrected themselves in vivid living color in my life again, more deep and real than ever.   First and foremost, I've come to the conclusion that:   "Love is never wasted.....love is worth the fall.....love is worth it all" (Love Is Worth It ALL) cowriter: Sheila Light Bates copyright: Sony/Tree 1977   And sadly, this one keeps cropping up....   "It's like the end of an era, like a scene in a rear view mirror, I thought I'd got past it now I'm looking at it again, Saying goodbye to a Friend" (Saying Goodbye To A Friend) cowriter: Doug Gill copyright: TenTen Music 1991   And here's to the elusive and mysterious nature of love.....   "Someday the whole wide world will feel the heat, and rush to warm their cold hearts at our feet, and beg to hear the tale of you and me.....but you're so many things I can't repeat" (You're So Many Things I can't Repeat) copyright: TenTen Music 2002   And to the redeeming quality of love......   "Every broken fence is mended, every little thing's forgiven, when love has it's way.....Love makes us beautiful" (Love Makes Us Beautiful) cowriter: Lisa Scott copyright: TenTen Music 2003   Still, life dances on in it's own ironic and perfect way.....   "It's all about the light and the shade, and the yin and the yang, and that no soul is a throwaway. It's all about the beauty in the way we're made, like good sweet fresh red beaujolais. It's the great big picture, the small degrees....the sun the moon the birds the bees.....it's the bada boom and the bada bing. And love is the last sweet thing, yeah... Love is the last sweet thing" (Last Sweet Thing) cowriter: Pete Bear copyright TenTen Music 2003     When time comes for you to move on, just remember to try and stay lightly tethered to this earth, and in all things stay creative.   yours in adventure,   Angela P.S. Here are some other stops you might like to make..... you'll be welcome at their door too! Nashville Songwriter's Association International The Bluebird Café American Originals TenTenMusic.com Nashville Underground       design • maintenance• commerce by echomusic