The Beauty of Uncommonsense

Artist, songwriter, former backup guitarist, grade school teacher, minister, human rights activist, investment banker, fruit picker, truck driver, rancher, counselor, poet, screenwriter. Wowzio grab widget • see more

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It's my 16 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

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The Beauty of Uncommonsense turned 13 today!

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10,000 likes!

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5,000 likes!

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Straight to You

Down the dwindling spiral of the rabbit hole, past the spiritual madness of conspiracies unknown, past the perfect delusions of finely manufactured truth, past the triumphs of bloodthirsty kings and the ruthless ignorant, past the whirring generators of pharmaceutical high anxiety and the hypnotic bliss of senseless propaganda, past the pixelated memories of misspent lives on this prison planet of tormented souls, and fired deep inward into the vacuum of uncharted space, I have been somehow delivered straight to you and our one chance out.

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Singer-songwriter Rachael Yamagata  with  "Elephants"

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Time Magazine's Man of the Year

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Coeur de Pirate

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Validation

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First Fig

My candle burns at both ends, It will not last the night, But ah my foes and oh my friends It gives a lovely light.

-Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Straight No Chaser

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Synchronicity

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A behind the scenes tour of an award-winning creative farm and juicing process in South West UK.

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Winnipeg

Canadian army Lieutenant Harry Colebourn bought a bear cub for $20 from a hunter in Ontario and named her Winnipeg after his hometown, and smuggled her to England during World War I where she soon became the regimental mascot. After the war he donated her to the London Zoo, where "Winnie" became a great favorite of the son of local playwright Alan Milne. His son, Christopher Robin Milne, named his own teddy bear after her. You know the rest of the story...

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"Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and with the mothers or families, re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body."    --Walt Whitman

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Robert & Alison

A spellbinding collaboration between two great and truly unique voices, produced by the legendary T-Bone Burnett.