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May you weather your storms wherever you are.
Environmental, global, political, social, personal.
On 12/21/05 I had surgery after a diagnosis of "papillary thyroid carcinoma" earlier that year. The thought of scalpels anywhere near the apparatus of my singing and talking was disquieting to say the least until I googled "Winter Solstice".
The first line that appeared on my computer screen back then was "the day more light comes into the world" and that's where I hung my hat. Seventeen years later I can report that all is well, and I appreciate every word and every note that continues to come forth, as well as every opportunity to share song and story. May the New Year afford ample opportunities for this seasoned troubadour.
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Can a song I wrote in 1990 still feel like it was written just now? Somehow for me it does.
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This is the Year © 1990 David Roth
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This is the year for making changes
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This is the year for moving on
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This is the year of overcoming
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This is the year for growing strong
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This is the year for a new way of thinking
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This is the year for making plans
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This is the year for reaching out
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And this is the year for joining hands
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Gone all the lonely nights of yearning
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Gone all the dark and cloudy skies
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All the unsteady bridges burning
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All of the doubt and all the lies
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This is the chance to recapture the power
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This is the time to abandon the fear
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This is the moment, the finest hour
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This is the year, this is the year
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This is the year that I put into action
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All my desires and all of my means
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This is the year that I follow my passion
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This is the year of my dreams
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This is the year I'm letting go of
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Trying to change the ones I love
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This is the year I turn it over
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This is the year I look above
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This is the year that I take my intention
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Turn it away from distraction and talk
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This is the year I take the step and
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This is the year I walk the walk
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This is the year that I put into action
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All my desires and all of my means
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This is the year that I follow my passion
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This is the year of my dreams
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This is the year I make it happen
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This is the year I follow through
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This is the year I move ahead on
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All of the things I want to do
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This is the chance to renew my commitment
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This is the time to be conscious and clear
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This is the moment for living fully
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And we begin the changes in 2023 at the Brasswood Inn, Provincetown, MA.
I'm so excited for our new home and the continuation of what we started in 2014, the Cape Cod Songwriters Retreats.
Both sessions (January 9-13 and March 6-10) are full and there's always room for commuters if you can arrange housing elsewhere near the tip of our island. I can help. My friend and transcendent artist Sloan Wainwright joins me once more to help guide us on our creative paths.
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2023 brings the resumption of my annual tour to Florida,
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the first one since 2020 before the pandemic changed all.
This time I'm so pleased to have a fuller-than-full docket of
12 appearances in 10 days, ranging from Key West to Jacksonville, Sarasota to St Pete, and many parts in between. Please come to our re-unions, and bring friends.
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8 ~ Warwick, RI ~ 10 AM guest speaker, Concordia CSL
9-13 ~ Provincetown, MA ~ Cape Cod Songwriters Retreat #14
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20 ~ Sarasota, FL ~ sponsored by CSL Cultural Coast & Unity
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22 ~ St Petersburg, FL (AM) ~ guest speaker UU St Pete
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22 ~ Palm Beach Gardens, FL (PM) ~ private event
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24 ~ Bay Harbor Islands, FL ~ private event
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28 ~ Jacksonville, FL ~ private event
29 ~ Jacksonville, FL ~ 10:45 AM speaker UU Church of Jax
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6-10 ~ Provincetown, MA ~ Cape Cod Songwriters Retreats
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24-26 ~ Maryland w/ Sloan and Tom Prasada Rao ~ TBA
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I'm looking to reboot my annual Pacific Northwest tour
(WA, OR) in late April/early May, first time since 2019.
May we put our heads, hearts, and halls together to gather once more. Drop me a line, Pacific Northwest.
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Then there is Ireland June 12-21, 2023 and
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Rafting the Main Stem of the Salmon River in Idaho
August 22-27, 2023
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My dear pal and musical mensch Glen Roethel will join the river adventure and the campfire music each night under the stars. It's going to be amazing. Write for more info.
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One annual "tradition" is to post this music video, a different take on the holidays.
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Thank you yet again for your support and interest.
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“And now we welcome the new year,
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full of things that have never been”
Rainer Maria Rilke
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