These are challenging times for many. For my love and myself, money is scarce and work is hard to find. I have busily been creating and developing my new small video production business whilst attempting to balance the ambitions of the Free Song A Week Campaign for my album “Seasons” and  my new musical project “Black Hat Villain”. In the process of doing so, I have not only drained myself financially, but have neglected to focus enough of the time and energy needed to continue to nurture and grow my relationship with my partner.
     I pride myself on the level of transparency I have been able to achieve through the process of creating “Seasons” and want to continue to share the epiphanies reached and lessons learned from its musical journey. Unfortunately, I have arrived at the point where I am unable to continue to fulfill so much of the content demands needed for this site. In my attempts to reach you I have exasperated my ability to film, perform, edit and publish a weekly performance video. It is with a heavy heart then that I must announce that I will be taking an extended break from producing these weekly videos so that I can have more time available to earn money to support my small but growing family.
    Life is a journey through the seasons and in keeping with this incredibly powerful and awe-inspiring process I am extremely happy to share with you some very good news. Amy, my beautiful wife-to-be, is carrying our first child whom we are both anxiously looking forward to meeting sometime in December. Along with the incredible joyful blessing we are experiencing however comes the stress of being able to provide a stable and secure home for our family to live, grow and flourish. Contributing to the world with free songs of hope and love is one thing, but with only a few album and merchandise orders trickling in every few weeks, I must now look elsewhere in order to create the means necessary to support my family. Given the outrageous situations that Amy and I have had to endure over the past two years, we must fight even harder now to ensure that our family is not torn apart by international immigration bullshit. The majority of my energy will now be focused on providing the proof of means needed by both the Canadian and British governments so that Amy can stay here with me before, during and after the birth of our child and so that I might someday be granted access to Great Britain so that I can finally meet and celebrate our relationship together with her family.
     I hope that you will understand the weight of my circumstance and know that I am committed to delivering you a Free Song every week along with a little newsletter that discusses the inspirations and frustrations that went into its creation. The songs and the newsletters can always be downloaded from the Free Song Archive of this website and I hope to be able to perform a few shows here and there so that you can experience the magic of live music – there’s nothing like that part of the journey.
    I will touch in here with this blog format whenever time and creative energy permits me; in the meantime, be well and hopeful yourselves and enjoy the journey through the seasons.
     Long live hope and with it the promise of a more positive future for all mankind!
     From Here To There,

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