Category Archives: Music

Dancing With Holidays Past

Posted on December 30, 2022 by aamontgomery

The best family holidays were full of laughter, dancing, and just being together. Continue reading →

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The Superheroes Among Us

Posted on November 30, 2022 by aamontgomery

Young children live in the “now”, can we learn from them? Continue reading →

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Dreams Walking in Broad Daylight

Posted on June 30, 2021 by aamontgomery

. . . dreams walking in broad daylightThree hundred, sixty five degreesBurning down the house. “Burning Down the House”, songwriters: David Byrne, Christopher Frantz, Martina Weymouth, Jerry Harrison Seeing the world through the eyes of a baby or toddler is … Continue reading →

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What Life Needs Is a Soundtrack

Posted on May 30, 2021 by aamontgomery

Music inspires and moves me as much as anything in my life. Does life have a soundtrack? I have done my best to prove it can. Continue reading →

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Down to the Root

Posted on December 31, 2020 by aamontgomery

“I carry you within me, to the very root And though I may blossom,still you will be here.” Continue reading →

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The Essential Question

Posted on October 6, 2019 by aamontgomery

What can we learn from the life of American singer Linda Ronstadt? The essential questions of life–and a great deal more. Continue reading →

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The Attic of Our Lives

Posted on September 30, 2019 by aamontgomery

I thought I had gotten away from that long-ago house. You would think marrying when you are 18 years old would be enough to snap the thread, but I guess it is not so. A few months ago I visited … Continue reading →

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A Man of Value

Posted on August 26, 2019 by aamontgomery

Values over riches, people over things: remembering my father and dealing with the grief. Continue reading →

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Coming Home to Myself

Posted on July 31, 2019 by aamontgomery

For the ones who had a notion,A notion deep inside,That it ain’t no sin to be glad you’re alive . . . Bruce Springsteen, “Badlands”, 1977 A few months before Bruce Springsteen wrote his elegaic anthem “Badlands”, I left my … Continue reading →

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The Day the Music Lived

Posted on June 30, 2019 by aamontgomery

Buddy Holly’s quintessentially American music could have died with him in a plane crash in 1959. But the power of his idiosyncratic genius lives on. Our music is what defines us and our music is what saves us. Continue reading →

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