✨ Hello from Corinne West ✨

Dear Music Lovers, 

Hello! Aloha! Howdy! ‘Sup! Guten Tag! Γεια σας! Nyob zoo! Konnichiwa! 

I write to you on a beautiful overcast morning here in the Lost Sierra. Our world is almost unidentifiable since last we corresponded. I am delighted…

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Equinox Smoke Signal from Corinne West

Dear Music Lovers, 
 

:: MUSINGS :: 

Oh Mighty Sun 
my stinging favorite 
central celestial star 
you continue to hover and burn 
from a power i can name 
yet not understand 

Mysteriously succinct 
i know you today…

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Summer Smoke Signal

Dear Lovers of Music & Art, 

:: MUSINGS :: 

~ AMBIENT ONE ~ 

Ambient One, you dance in my dreams 
Pouring curl after sway over the headland hills 
diaphanous dreams disappearing 
at the mouth of the…

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June's Smoke Signal Newsletter

Dear Lovers of Art & Music, 

:: MUSINGS :: 

Summer Solstice. Our glorious Star / Sun shines longer and stronger than any other day. The wheel turns continually regardless of where we are, who we are, and…

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April's Smoke Signal Newsletter

Dear Lovers of Art & Music, 

:: MUSINGS :: 

Earth Day. 
Our Amazing Earth. 
Right here… right now… under you. 
Supporting you. 
Us... cascading all over Earth. 
Every day. Every night. 
It ALL goes down, right here. …

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March's Smoke Signal Newsletter

Dear Lovers of Art & Music, 
 


:: MUSINGS :: 

Perhaps every season - is really a portal. Stand still, run, jump rope or swim… the colors will change all around you. There is no stopping this. Nothing you…

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February's Smoke Signal Newsletter

Dear Lovers of Music & Art, 

:: MUSINGS :: 

clever words, furrowed brow 
silent sword far from me now 
western bell only hollow sounds 
the ending of the mourning 

pen dance sideways on the page 
aristocrat stumbles…

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January's Smoke Signal Newsletter

Photo: Jeanne Rana


Dear Lovers of Music & Art, 

:: MUSINGS :: 

There is an art form to reading the signs. Everyone has their own methods, or can develop them. I’ll share with you one of…

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December's Smoke Signal Newsletter

Photo: Ting Vogel


Dear Lovers of Music & Art, 

Being a California-coastal native, I have no claims to harsh winters here. In fact, as I write to you, I am looking out at a palm tree, and considering…

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November's Smoke Signal Newsletter


Dear Lovers of Music & Art,

The great snap of winter is upon us. The Holidays are rushing in. Wherever you are in the world, the season of celebration is in the air. I wish the warmest for you and…

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