THE SHRINE THIEF: FINDING WISDOM IN A LIFE OF MUSIC

Available now from Terra Nova Press

My memoir, The Shrine Thief: Finding Wisdom in a Life of Music, has been five years in the writing, the first two spent rereading every word I ever wrote including volumes of journals and a file cabinet full of letters to and from. Then came the years of writing and revising, editing, designing, and selecting seventy photographs. Writing can be a powerful zone (as you know) but I am a musician by trade and temperament. Musical tones don’t mean anything outside of themselves as words do. “The sky” points us to an experience; a musical tone is pure experience itself, and it is enough for me. Language can be a burden. Unsurprisingly, writing books renders me insane. In order to remain human during those writing years, I became an ever more prolific composer, page after page of music streaming through.

Thank you my friends, my big family, Namaste.
Allaudin