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Swimming in the Bay

All My Loving

Everyone’s Son

Swimming in the Bay

All My Loving

I took up singing at the tender age of 60. I don’t sound great but, oh, baby, I’m having a blast! If you’ve always yearned to sing, dance, paint, write, act, surf, or frolic naked in the woods with a panpipe, don’t keep your spirit on hold for a single moment longer. Make the experiment! Dare to be an amateur! Dare to write badly, sing off-key, lose your lines, ruin a canvas, wipeout. Life is too short to let your passions languish unexplored. Do it for yourself. Do it for all of creation. Do it for joy.

Everyone’s Son

In the two years that elapsed between writing this song in 2017, and getting it produced and making the video, 30,303 Americans were killed with guns and another 44,000 took their own lives using guns.

With each new eruption of gun violence, we race to condemn the act along with the perpetrator. And while every loss of innocents is a tragedy, what of the fact that we live in a nation that generates this carnage with such frequency?

Everyone’s Son explores this question through the eyes of the deeply wounded men our country produces in abundance. Trying to understand the pain of

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