That Coyote is now somewhat organized.

Besides recording music and making wood flutes I also like to spend a little time writing fiction. It keeps my creativity flowing in all aspects. I believe adding the diversity of creative writing adds depth to creating music and flutes. The key I learned is to keep it in balance. Blackpaw is now organized in it's own website. with chapters. It is still a work in progress thing. The story is about a coyote family living on the high plains with the snow capped mountains on the skyline. It seems they are always trying to deal with some problem.

Every time when I head for the southwest a major part of the trip would include driving through the high plains. What never seizes in amazing me is how drastically the high plains can change. You can drive most of the day around thunder storms and the windshield never sees a drop of rain. Or drive around a mesa and be traveling in fresh fallen snow and another mile down the road it can be 70 degrees and sunny. It is an adventure every time.

To some whom, travel through it seems so desolate.

But to me it is an ever changing montage of beauty. When it is my shift to ride shotgun I find myself daydreaming out the passenger window admiring the landscape and becoming one with it. And because of those daydreaming trips I believe I wrote about Black Paw and his family.

My editing friends said “why write about a coyote?”. And I replied “why not”.

Maybe writing Blackpaw is my subconscious trying to release me from the daily grind. Temporally liberating me from paying bills, fixing things that are broke and other things.

How do you find release from the daily grind?

If you want you can listen to Coyote Rock while you're pondering that thought. It is a song I recorded for the next wood flute music project.

Peace, Kevin