Welcome to Words, Music and Radical Common Sense!

I’m Chris Preston, writer and recording artist. This is where you’ll find all of the writings I want to share as well as everything there is to know about my music and process.

I’m still on a news blackout, because I just can’t take any more, but I’m embracing the season and accept what it might hold for me.

I extend to you my best wishes for a Merry Christmas.

We still have our wits and will. We will lead with our hearts and survive the coming storm as this year turns into the next.

Latest from the blog

  • It Got Late Early This Year

    I spent an afternoon last weekend enjoying myself in Union Square, taking quick turn around the Strand before I ended up browsing the Manifestation section of the Namaste Bookshop. (14th Street and 5th Avenue. It’s easy to find. There’s a life-sized Buddha sitting outside on the sidewalk.) While the incense felt like quicksand for the…

    Read more…

New Aquarius, my most recent album. Available by download (click it) and soon, on CD! (Actually it’s on CD now, but you’ll be able to get it more easily, dig?)

Never do what Walt is doing. It’s terrible for those with TMJ dysfunction. I’m serious.

Poems

My spirit animals

“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.”

Walt Whitman