The Jeff Caylor Podcast - 003 from Jeff Caylor on Vimeo.
Update on FAWM, guitar lessons, and a sneak peak at the new Almost Flew video. Sort of. The RSS for The Jeff Caylor Podcast is here and the iTunes link is here.
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The Jeff Caylor Podcast - 002 from Jeff Caylor on Vimeo.
This week’s podcast ends up being quite a bit longer than last weeks. We’ll start out thanking a few podcasts who’ve supported my music over the past few months (see list below) and I say a few words about Fawm (February Album Writing Month) and the creative process. Finally, I’ll wrap up with a brief interview of the interviewer with Rachel Mains of AM560 - The Light in Denver where I did a radio interview earlier this week.
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Daniel Johnson Jr. - Journey Inside My Mind Podcast
Ed’s Mixed Bag
Average Joe American
Mothpod
Pod5
Binary Starcast
This Week in Career Services
Indie Music Podcast
Mamzilla and the Mighty Nips
Rachel Mains
February Album Writing Month
Correction: The podsafe music nework is http://music.podshow.com/.
Thanks to you all! Sorry if I’ve missed anyone. Leave your credits and URL in the comments if you’ve played my music but I haven’t mentioned you here.
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Katie couldn’t walk. She couldn’t talk. She couldn’t eat or drink without a tube that plugged into her stomach or nose. She wasn’t even able to communicate a complete thought the way that you and I can. She lived in a wheelchair and was 100% dependent on her parents her whole life.
Then on December 28th she stopped living. Or perhaps she started.
I don’t want to imply that I knew Katie very well. I just met her once and only know her mother, Dawn, slightly better. But a good friend and colleague wrote this kind account of Katie’s memorial service and I found it pretty moving so I wanted to share it here.
Lessons from Katie
It was a cold and wintery Colorado afternoon, although the sun did hang in the partly cloudy sky. Traffic on the interstate buzzed by, oblivious to the proceeding inside the church. The only odd thing someone might have noticed was the crowded parking lot – not typical for a Monday.There were more people present for this memorial service than usually occupy the sanctuary. The number of folks gathered spoke something to me of how her life had touched so many in just a few short years.
We came together to…what? Pay tribute to a life well lived? Celebrate the “home going” of a saint? Honor the family? Share their grief? It wasn’t apparent, even as we entered the great room. There was a somber tone, a conspicuous quiet, a lack of the usual laughter and conversation that takes place before a service.
The video screen at the front showed pictures of the girl, at various stages of life. Shots of her at the hospital, obviously physically afflicted in some way. There she is with her doting mother. Now she is a toddler being hugged by a relative. And the wheelchair…an ever-present part of her life. She spent all her years confined to a bed or in that wheelchair.
Katie suffered a particularly cruel sort of physical condition. Severely affected, she was very small and most fragile. Her head fell to one side, her eyesight unfocused on anything close…she seemed to be gazing off at something, someone in the far distance. She communicated with a simple smile, or by an utterance in an unknown dialect…sometimes grunting or groaning in such a way as to seem in agony. Those close to Katie knew her communications. They could tell in some way what it was she wanted them to know: her joy at someone’s kindness, or her displeasure at the country music being played on the radio. Read the full post here.
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It’s been a good month for press around here. I just got a scan of the review that showed up in Christian Single magazine this month (below). I was also spotlighted (or spotlit?) in Plugged In Magazine this month. Only the print version contains the review.
I’m also doing an interview in Denver tomorrow afternoon with Rachel Mains at 560AM The Light. The interview will air some upcoming Saturday morning on The Corner Cafe. Just for fun, I’m going to interview Rachel for my podcast that’s coming up Wednesday.
If you’re coming by the site for the first time, Thanks! Please drop a line. I’m always curious to learn how people are finding me.
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This is pretty cool. My cat (okay, he belongs to Leora, too) fetches a little green ball.
As it turns out, there are dozens of cats who play fetch. Who knew? See “similar videos” after the clip.
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Jeff Caylor Podcast Episode 001 from Jeff Caylor on Vimeo.
[EDIT] I’m impressed. I submitted this to iTunes last night and they already have the podcast live. They don’t have the image updated but you can use this URL to subscribe if iTunes is your thing.
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