d. + Peter Christenberry: This Thursday

Merry Christmas, Avery

Merry Christmas, Avery. I know that you can't read yet, but someday you'll be able to - someday you'll be big like me. But for now you're still a little star. I do know that you can talk, and run, and jump, and learn. And I also know that you love to go to sleep to music. So I made you a lullaby for Christmas. It's not as beautiful as you, but it's the best I could do. I'll think of you every time I play it, and while I live more miles away from you than you have fingers and toes, I hope you'll think of me when you hear it. I'll make you a promise that I'll play it for you next time I see you. I can play it over and over if you like, until you fall asleep. And then someday, when you're big like me, but I need a little help because I've fallen down, you can sing it to me until I fall asleep. Because you'll always be a star.

I love and miss you,

Uncle Dustin

"Big (for Avery)"

When you want to be big like me
And strong like you think I am
I'll be the one to show you how
To use all your love
And lift up the world with one hand

Because I know
You'll show me one day that you're bigger than I'll ever be
And I know
You'll show the world why it's got to believe

And I know
The mountains and the sky will give you everything you need
Because you're a star

When I'm not big like you
Or strong like I think I am
Will you be the one that I need
To remind me how to use all my love somehow

Because I know
I'll need a little help from your hands when I've fallen down
And I know
You'll show me someday that I've got to believe

An Exit Strategy Unlike Iraq

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Brother, farewell

d.J Presents: Vectors

Vectors is my latest continuous mix. It celebrates minimalism and teases much more than my previous Rain+Shadows mixes (available in the archives). That said, Vectors eventually gives way to the endorphin-laced melodies towards the end...because I just can't help myself. Enjoy!

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Show: Monday, November 24th

Yes We Did

In the 21st Century, we need not be white, Christian, Muslim, Oregonian, gay, straight, or even "wrong" or "right". We are, but human. For all our beauties and blemishes, we are inextricably confined by the code of our corporal and spiritual existence. Let us, just for a moment, not consider the potential success or failure of the next four years; rather, let us consider the "fierce urgency of now". We all indeed share common desires upon this lonely planet, from India, to Spain, from South Dakota to Oregon: we want security. With the events of today, we can receive that gift. We are secure knowing that, despite our woes and fears, our successes and failures, that we are all in the same arena where every local action can affect global reaction. We are all among this curious, yet chaotic planet where the boundaries of language cannot explore, and the vast possibility of uncertainty can dominate. My fellow human beings, the cloaks of our past have shed a skin, and shed a tear. The 21st Century of "humanism" has just knocked loudly. I, for one, am willing to answer the door. To ignore is to risk our security.

"If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer."

-President-elect, Barack Obama, 11.04.08

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