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Cedar Branches
Apr 9, 20183 min read
Well how did I do it?
It almost doesn’t make sense. How exactly does a homeless man produce a music album and a musical stage performance? I don’t have a...
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Cedar Branches
Apr 7, 20183 min read
Why don’t we ‘share’?
Now I’m not talking about straight selfishness, which is a deep and complex topic of its own. I am referring to how rarely people help to...
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Cedar Branches
Apr 1, 20185 min read
I’ve been searching for you,
in the darkness where you've been lost. I mean I could have just sat in the light of the perfect home that I created for myself, calling...
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Cedar Branches
Mar 30, 20186 min read
The problem with treating symptoms,
and why it is important to address root causes. Most of us have grown up in a society that is pretty shallow. We rush from one thing to...
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Cedar Branches
Mar 29, 20186 min read
Art will be the death of me.
It seems a common agreement, produce good art and you will die too young. The best art only ever seems to be truly appreciated once the...
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Cedar Branches
Mar 27, 20183 min read
What is the point of faking happiness,
and what to do with all of this suffering? It’s not like by faking happy, or portraying to others that we are happy, we will actually...
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Cedar Branches
Mar 24, 20184 min read
Arts & Crafts
The endless debate about the rules of art, and how it's meaningful. I’ve encountered a frequent debate among artists and craftspeople in...
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Cedar Branches
Mar 23, 20182 min read
Welcome!
Welcome to the Shadows Illuminated blog! I have created this blog to share about my journey as an independent artist and how this has...
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Cedar Branches
Mar 22, 20182 min read
Calling on Community
March 11, 2018 (edited by Shawn Postma) Every so often you get a chance to meet someone unlike any other; someone who manages to touch...
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Cedar Branches
Mar 22, 20184 min read
Shadows Illuminated, the Live Performance
March 9th, 2018 (Story edited by Shawn Postma) I am up to something. I’m publicly illuminating my shadows, and demonstrating a process of...
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Cedar Branches
Mar 22, 20184 min read
YouTube and Shadows Illuminated
January 4th, 2018 (Ten Days after the release of Shadows Illuminated) Back in 2013, I created a YouTube channel. I did this to share a...
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Cedar Branches
Mar 22, 20185 min read
Cedar on Shadows Illuminated
December 18th, 2017 (One Week before Shadows Illuminated the Music Album was published) When a candle is lit in a dark room, the shadows...
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Cedar Branches
Mar 22, 20184 min read
Cognitive Dissonance
The unraveling had led to a deep state of denial and projection of blame for what had manifested into the world. How did we get here and...
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Cedar Branches
Mar 22, 20186 min read
Pre-Illumination (The Unravelling)
What led up to the creation of Shadows Illuminated? The Unraveling (an excerpt from Spirit Work, Too by Cedar Branches & Diane Carol...
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