Personal Newsletter
Collective Creativity Has Worth (even if our songs don't)
On the power of the process itself
Jordan Lee
Songwriter/Performer/Failed Brand @ Mutual Benefit
Winter Show and Updates
A NYC show and thoughts about digital space
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#22 Bone Flutes + Cricket Wings
On why we should be grateful that we can make sounds without being eaten by a large animal
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#21 Re-embodiment
Countering "scentless time" and drawing new maps
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#20 No Separation
Two short pieces about my beloved Prospect Park Turtle Gang and the transformative power of teaching
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#19 Failed Ode to the Library
My newfound love of the library and recent foray into songwriting lessons
News
Shows, Songwriting Class, Spring
bi-coastal show, a new songwriting offering
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#18 Celebrating Mood Machine
Recommending Liz Pelly's incredible new book investigating the streaming economy and the true value of music
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#17 What is the Opposite of Alienation?
Wrestling with political cynicism and learning to cultivate connection with the work of Hannah Arendt, Franco Berardi, Zen, and Gillian Welch
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#16 The Camel, The Lion, The Child
Square dancing, Nietzsche, and an award-winning tree in Texas
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#15 There is no "I" in Entanglement
Exploring the idea of nonself though The Light Eaters by Zoe Schlanger
#14 Komorebi (or light and dark changing places)
Greetings from a hot summer afternoon in Brooklyn where I am hiding from my partner who is convalescing from a trendy new strand of COVID. I’m seated at a previously peaceful coffee shop near prospect park which is currently being auditorily invaded by some men with loud voices talking