Raggin' Piano Boogie

HIS SPIRIT LIVES ON! ... BONER, THE PIANO DOG ... November 27, 1994 ... February 20, 2010

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July 31, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

The month of April was almost all about Mo's death on this blog. With the temperatures between 110º and over 120º now everyday, this month is most has been about the Traveling Piano Photo Art Gallery and its making. Well, its gone now. I've walked away from my Traveling Piano Art Gallery and am letting go of it all including the idea of continuing with this aspect of my journey. It was the last inception. I am finished with it. A friend that I can now longer deal with had let me use her store and was helping to raise funds by selling Traveling Piano photos but... as it goes, I should have known better. The arrangement did not last. It truned into insanity on many levels, lack of consistency, followthrough, respect, etc... and not for the first time. Her spirit is beautiful but there are several irreconcilable issues to deal concerning her state of mind. They came up several years ago and now again. Of course I thought it would be different this time because I wanted so much for it to be different this time around.

July 30, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

I had goals concerning the Traveling Piano Art Gallery. In knowing the situation might not work out I set them one step at a time and as simple as possible. I first wanted to use the space I was given to file every piece I had, know how many photos of each image I had and how many were framed. The second step was to create panels for the display wall and fill them with photos and to create separate files to be able to find and sell the photos quickly. The photos filed and placed were separated into color, types, textures, perspectives, the good ones verses the ones not printed very well and the photos to be displayed in store verses online. They were placed with creative thought on about twenty large art frames with fifteen to twenty photos on each frame. Two large informational frames were created to explain everything about the Traveling Piano as the centerpiece. All frames were strategically placed on a wall. Product was stored in labeled cases and boxes. I had banners for outside and large sidewalk signs I had accumulated over the years.

July 29, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

Since Mo died I had been creating a final Traveling Piano Photo Art Gallery full time almost everyday. That was four month of work on the project and setting it all up. I considered the opportunity providential as it helped me get through Mo's loss and kept me around people. With the heat I could not create music outside. At each stage I reminded myself that I accomplished that stage of completionl while having no expectation to reach the end of the next stage, simply desire. When I first began, this was important, I told myself this would be the last inception of a Traveling Piano Art Gallery, that I would simply walk away from everything if the situation fell apart as before and if it did not all take off and fly. I am not going to pursue anymore galleries. I began working to raise funding through my photos since I arrived in Las Vegas almost ten years ago.

July 28, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

My friend does live sales several days a week at her store. She decided to present my photos for two days a week, once a month during her live sales. She set the terms 100% and it all began to work out very well for the first two times. We began to sell a lot of photos! People love them. I knew they would. They were manifested out of love. My friends time, work and costs were through a sense of contribution as per our agreement. (although I always find ways to compensate with gratitude) I trusted It was really not in her mind really, as a "favor". Me... wrong once more. There is a difference between giving a favor and giving a contribution. Most people have no sense of what contribution is as a form of unconditional giving. I do and have shown it clearly throughout this journey everyday for almost 20 years, what contribution is for me. I walk the walk and being able to say that is at the core of my self-respect and character.

No matter the incentive or inspiration, whatever is contributed can have no strings attached or created as a result. A favor will almost always move into a "what I did for you" mode. A favor can be the seed of expectation and obligation. My friends "favor" mentality created a growing spiral of chaos in the worst of ways even with constant clarification. From the start, both our limits and boundaries where clarified. In business, contracts are created because of the difference between favor and contribution and as well shifting boundaries and limits. I was "very" clear, this is not about business. Separating what is business from raising contribution can be a tricky fine wire to walk on. I've twenty years experience in dealing with both separately. My expertise on the matter was not embraced or even possible to manifest as time revealed. I had to end it all as a result.

July 27, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

I just walked away from and left everything, the entire Traveling Piano Photo Art Gallery and setup. This aspect of the Traveling Piano journey is over. I had to be prepared for an undesirable ending from the start. Actually, there is no undesirable ending with this. I did in fact achieve my goals just not as an over the top success. Many years of work and accumulation of promotional materials and product I had to be willing to just let go of. Whatever my friend does with it all is none of my business. And, I had said to her that I would in fact walk away from it all if everything went sour before we began. She will throw it all in the trash or give it to Goodwill.

Although ugh, Goodwill is a store that sells free stuff contributed for profit and not for anyone needy. All my time, effort, creativity, work, money, etc... was the process. I have truly achieved my goals with the Traveling Piano Photo Art Galleries I have had. My digital photos were transferred into real life framed photos for people to have and hold in their hands. They have reached people worldwide on more than just the internet. This has created real, manifested value in the world. I've made some funding from the photos I mean a teeny weenie bit, lol. They have been valued in sale price to my satisfaction in every way. Fortunate, are those that have them in their hands. They represent a gift given and received from both sides of the coin.

July 26, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

Just as when Mo died, it had to happen. Same for the ending of Traveling Piano's aspect of having a nature art photo gallery. Providentially in my heart I knew now was the time for it happen, to end. I had prayed and meditated on it. Just as with the night before Mo died a phrase came into my mind, "its over" the next morning would have to be the end. So it was with the gallery. It was not a decision, spirit led the way in my mind with the same phrase of intent, "its over." Acceptance, Courage and Wisdom, the three words of action as a result of praying for Serenity to accomplish those words. The Serenity Prayer has worked without exception for more than forty years. The transition was as smooth as could be.

July 25, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

Creating photos and displays, marketing and selling them well, when I was younger I could do that along with everything else about the Traveling Piano. Now, with my age, it takes too much time away from the music and everything else the Traveling Piano is about. Life is slowing up as well as spiraling away fast. As I worked with the gallery over the last few months, I was acutely aware of how I did not want to spend the rest of my life selling and distributing and marketing Traveling Piano photos, especially with the payback involved. There have been four bona fide Traveling Piano Photo Galleries of Nature Photography in the very center of Las Vegas since 2017. None of them have really taken off but the fact is they have been created and functionally working. Had they lasted long enough, I believe that as well as just manifesting photos into peoples hands, the gallery would have been a stepping stone for permanent sponsorship and/or financial backing to take the Traveling Piano to a new and more sustainable level.

July 24, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

I have had to manifest every detail of my life from start to finish all by myself. My terms and conditions for life for better or worse has limited my career growth in just about every way. As I become older I think that maybe the idea of my limited growth is by design. This has been the way for me with everything in life, always has been and at this point really looks like always will be. When someone writes a book, it gets finished. A publisher and then it moves to another level. One of the goals with the Traveling Piano journey was to partner with someone or a business to move my work to another level. That has not been in the cards for my life. And, nothing has changed about how my life works since I first began to individualize at age fifteen. Why does a career need to constantly grow? There are thoguhts in my brain that they Traveling Piano has gone as far as it can and that is for the best. Why does a successful life or business that serves society need to constantly grow? When is enough, enough? A flower blooms to perfection, it maintains its stance until it begins to fade. It does not say to itself, keep growing, keep getting bigger, better, etc...

July 23, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

My reality is... intimate personal relationship has always been more important for me than career or financial success. What a difficult acceptance that can be from time to time in a world that fancies career and financial success first and foremost. The challenge to be and stay honest with myself about what I really want first and foremost, keeping clarity about it all... not an easy task. I've had many intimate personal relationships in life including with myself. My mind wants to tell me how I fail over and over. The reality is that intimate personal relationships do not need to last a life time for them to be successful although some have for me. The ones where those close to me have died, lol. But really, I am fairly certain those who have passed would have been with me to the end whether they passed first or I did. We had our boundaries and limits set with each other and the history of consistency from experiences both good and bad over time. I've had about five life long really successful personal and intimate life long friendship relationships and about five where I have had to keep a distance. There are still several active close personal friendship I have been able to hold onto.

July 22, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

When I need to let go of something in life, I've several "go to's" for support. I think about how I successfully let go of my house and all my belongs out of choice for the sake of this journey. When I was going to move to my friend Becky's (who has now passed), her house in Montana and found out she was psycho after having shipped my archives and truly personal memories there and had to actually run leaving it all behind, lol... what a story well yes, I did that. Now that she has passed I should include what went down with all that in this blog. This journey has not been all a piece of celebration cake. I was able to let go of Traveling Piano Pup Boner and also Mo. Nothing has meant more to me in life than those two dogs. I've many significant friendships with people who have died. I've let go from major potential encounters for fame and fortune for the sake of this journey. I have had tremendous personal and intimate relational experience with people from all walks of life, those affected by floods, fire, mass gun murder and homelessness who have lost everything they have had in life and also have absolutely no one to support and care for them. I think of them all, often. So, letting go of my Traveling Piano Photo Art Gallery project now at this point of my life... not such a biggie. It is not that difficult to let go of something when I can accept there is no choice in the matter especially when having past practice doing it. Age enters with the "no choice" concerning physical capability.

July 21, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

I am having an identity crises. There is no Mo. There is no music as a result of the heat. Every day it is 115º where I am. Night rarely goes below 95º and it will be this way for more than another month. There is no strength to put together and take apart the keyboard in my room to create music for myself with my age now. It sure feels like I am dying. Feelings are not always facts. I learned that when I got sober forty-four years ago. The truck is in its final period of life with road travel ability. Fact is... I know I can go on. I did that when Bo died. I know I can gain strength. I just need to find a way to inspire myself to exercise. Mo helped with that for the last 16 years.

I've not played music or interacted with people through extended periods of time before. I ALWAYS make up for that time and more... once it is possible. I can say that has been proven more than fifty times in the past and it is all recorded on this blog. The truck... that is a dilemma. There are many options. The question is, do I want to go through what is needed for any of those options or simply retire from life as I know it. A part of me no matter how small says do not give up on the journey. It all comes down to decision. That word, "decision" is written about in this blog more than a hundred times. It has represented a pathological challenge in the worst of ways for my entire life. Other forces often make decisions on my behalf in life and in the best of ways. So there's that.

July 20, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

Everyday I hold the worlds suffering in my thoughts. I cannot help but to do that because I care. I choose to live in the worlds reality as a whole. My challenge is to not focus on the causes with hate and rage... but to ask the God of my understanding to direct "our" thoughts. Specifically, I am conscious of those affected by gun violence, those homeless and those losing their realities through environmental tragedy. My mind is always on the families being ripped apart and good lives destroyed by ICE and all those suffering from the present US regime and its billionaire oligarchs. My mind is conscious of those innocent people being slaughtered in the Ukraine, Palestine, Lebanon and Iran as well as in Africa. All the people living under spiritual repression from authoritarian dictatorships worldwide, gay and transgendered kids being forced to live lives not possible on any level of worth because of fake biblical religious freaks and authoritarians who use them for the sake of political oppression, manipulation and control.

July 19, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

9 people were shot and injured in downtown Tucson early this morning. That is not even making headlines and is just a secondary news account for just about all of the media. We have all become desensitized to gun violence. Except for those who have been affected by it, no desensitization for them. Even with a lot of those people it just goes right into suppressed feeling. It just happened in Oakland CA in March. Just as it happened in April of 2022 in Sacramento, CA. That is the last time the Traveling Piano responded to such a tragedy. Mo and I drove from Las Vegas and stayed there for a few days to help create a healing environment.

Then again in May of that year Mo and I drove to the Robb Elementary School massacre in Uvalde, Texas. Street gun massacres, school gun massacres... my mind would be so much healthier if I could spend more time at these terrible events as I've done through the last 20 years. It is therapeutic in the best of ways to be able to respond with love and music verses disseminating what is fake or not in the news and attacking shit heads online about all the evil happening. I just no longer have the means to do the Traveling Piano option. But then again, I need to just get real. There is at least one shooting in Las Vegas everyday. When the temperatures cool down I can just go to those areas to create some good energy. It does not need to be far away or a big event.

July 18, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

Sometimes I think about going back to teaching. I mean, I've never stopped but to do it formally, for money. I first began teaching piano at age fifteen. By twenty one I had a major business going. Just me. I burnt out. Actually, I began to drink and look for as much sex as I could get. LOL, there was not enough time for both. If the temperatures outside were cool enough right now, my ability to work both physically and mentally with the Traveling Piano concerning time is about thirty percent of what it used to be. And, I could not possibly do it five days a week anymore. Now, recovery time is also needed. So, doing "anything" else would take away from what time there is. The physicality of my work well, its just always been very physical. Creating music is physical for me. Jumping in an out of the truck, interacting with people, its not like I talk relaxed like while sitting in a chair. Wow, I find myself whining and complaining more and more as I get older! Still, I think about going back to teaching formally every once in a while.

July 17, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

My mind becomes very distracted with how trump and his maga people, the high tech demons and specifically ICE, other dictators world wide, putin, netanyahu and other pieces of slim, how they are all destroying our world. It can take over an entire day for me and is amazingly frustrating to see how most people are dealing with it all in denial, sucking on false information or in support, doing nothing but whining or just simply ignoring everything. I care too much to do nothing. At the very least, I can spend time in conscious meditation praying for us all everyday, for God to direct our minds... in gratitude for what I have and what I can do to serve the world. I stay conscious to not get lost in my anger and hate and to not get sucked down a rabbit hole into darkness. It takes work! Some days I am better at it than others. Music will take over my life again as soon as it is possible. It is not possible in the heat. My leg has almost healed but not having used it for three months since Mo died, it does not feel like I will ever get the strength I once had back. This, as a result of my age if nothing more. I am concerned about my ability to work without the crazy energy I once had. It would engage and captivate people with my heart, soul and music on the Traveling Piano truck. For how long I will be able to sustain the energy needed each time I go out into the streets, well we shall see.

July 16, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

I have been clean and sober forty four years as of today. Is that amazing or what? It takes work still, everyday and some days it is not easy at all. My sobriety is the core fundamental reason I am alive. Having not used any drugs or alcohol, pot included is how I have been able to remember to remember who I am, who I want to be, how I want to live my life, what I care about. Fundamentally it has been my foundation for courage in doing what I do, how I think and behave, my self-respect and the respect I can have for others. It has been a challenge to live and accept life on life's terms one day at a time and to remember I am not always in control and to stay flexible when dealing with other people. Trust in a power greater than myself, the God of my own personal understanding (and fuck what anyone else has to say on the matter) and giving my will, uncertainty, flow and fear over to my higher power has been completely worth it. The two dogs, my greatest joys and accomplishments relationally in life have been as a result of God's unconditional love through me. Humility and Gratitude are my main tools in life learned through sobriety.

July 15, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

The panels explaining the Traveling Piano' mission along with my art photos are up in the back of the HoneyPot on Main street in the Arts District of Las Vegas. They are in a huge crystal shop. Then they fell down. Then I put them back up. Then they fell down again. Then I put them back up again. After about four different types of glue and nails. I think we are all set now. It is a huge accomplishment. The goal is to sell some photos and get support in as many ways as possible to continue on. There are QR codes on the panels to send financial contribution. How the photos are going to get into people's hands is still a mystery. I must let my friend who owns the store make every move, thought and decision. She needs total control.

Otherwise, she will hassle me about taking up space in her store or invading it. We have a real relationship, lol! If need be i will just open up shop with my own hours to sit there and hopefully engage with people. Then again I will need to worry about sitting in the store. Lol, one moment at a time. My first goal was to use the place to organize and file all the photos and materials I have. Done. And then to design and print everything and create the area offered for use. Done. Now I need to wait while she decides where I am going to store the product, sell it and my place in all that. No money or distribution will be going through the store. Again, it will be through my QR codes and the rest still needs to be figured out.

July 14, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

I remember a moment a couple months ago when the thought, "its over." It was a moment like when I could no longer tolerate booking Raggin' Piano Boogie gigs on the truck twenty years ago. That... turned into what has now been twenty years more with what has been called The Traveling Piano. Whats over? Everything? My wanting to live life? The Traveling Piano? That remains to be seen. I do need to continue to take the truck out and create music. Everytime I do it I am afraid to get started. When I stop for any amount of time, even a few days, it has always been that way to get started again. I must also engage with people to stay alive. Easily, I could disappear into my room forever. At least it feels that way. In the past isolating never lasted long, I could not take it. As I get older that becomes much easier. The same with reaching out to help others. I could be satisfied living my life out not helping others. Actually, that is not true. I nurture by nature. If I could spend all my time nurturing myself that would be nice. Not going to happen. I've never been good at nurturing myself just for myself alone.

July 13, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

I've another crazy neighbor. An amazingly sweet short, older woman who claims to be a motel cleaning lady but there is much more going on with her. She seems very fragile with a dog that looks like Mo. The dog moans when she leaves. It is very sad. She has had ten people in her room at a time/ They all seem respectful, all white, all trailer park style. How the hell can ten people be in the room at one time? There is no place to even sit on the floor. And most strange, not a peep. No sound which is totally bizarre. I've been through many, many people and I cannot figure out what is going on but it is nerve racking as they are always coming and going in front of my window and our doors are attached. I do not even hear them open or close the door! The only thing I can think is that they are aliens, lol. But really, with all the different behaviors I know the room has to do with drugs and/or trafficking. Unexplainable, non-sensible, behavior like this that shows no sign of drug activity is always drug activity no matter how questionable that it is not. I found her in the parking lot the other day at 2:30am with her car trunk open and a wood slat holding it up with a large rectangular case in the back. She was sitting in the back seat with the door open and doing something with her phone. She said her car battery was dead and she could not get it started. I have a battery starter so I lent it to her. Her battery was in fact dead but my starter need more power.

I let her keep it over night and said I wanted it back first thing the next morning. That did not happen. I knew I was in trouble. It cost me $75 and I had to nip the situation in the bud. I waited until late night, nocked on her door. She said she didn't have it with crazy excuses. I told her I am not angry but if I do not get it back tomorrow I would become very angry. The next day... nothing. At night I nocked on her door, she did not have it and I could see she was afraid. I can be intimidating when needed. Having to live next to her, this had to be handled. She offered to rectify the situation by giving me a hundred. I took it, said I had trusted her and want to live next to her in peace and as a good neighbor. She has rectified the situation and all is good. She repeated that word for word, mumbled something about troubles she is having and closed her door. After about five minutes I had a strong urge to nock on the door and tell her if she ever needed to talk I would be here for her. Then I thought, Danny do not be a total ass! What a mistake that would have been. I need to keep distance from whatever is going on in the room next to me... a lot of distance, as much distance as possible without question and for sure!! My nature of wanting to be helpful and nurturing has its place. I've learned that.

July 12, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

I've done something I have never done before here in Las Vegas. That is to stay inside for two full days. I did open the door once each day to feel the heat and then closed it, lol. My thoughts were about the fact that I do not need to go out. Mo was the only reason I needed to go out and I just do not want to. At the same time I realize that as an older man and with Mo gone, I need to be very careful not to become a recluse. Every morning I still wake up with the thoughts, Musical Fun, Friendship and Respect with Empowerment and Inspiration as my intent for the day. There were a few days over the last month I forgot to do that. Being more careful physically, being more careful mindfully and spiritually, is a must now. None of that never has come naturally for me anyway but now, remembering to remember everything is critical. I miss playing the piano. The where-with-all and energy to set up and tear down my portable piano in my room has been too much for me. I am still adjusting to the loss of Mo, I am adjusting to the knee tear that I am still healing from. Last night I went out to turn on the truck to make sure the battery is not dead and it still works.

July 11, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

I must let go of many journey related interests other than the core of this journey. None of them will ever fully manifest as there are just too many. That has been the way of my life, most tasks usually do not enter full completion because there are too many to complete. This is how i have been able to stay interested. It is also how I distract myself from myself. Should I focus more on fundraising, creating music, filing my archives, creating a few of the projects that have been on my mind since day one, exploring nature alone without Mo or Bo to create photos? How about creating a real internet presence (iv'e never really worked at that) to sell Traveling Piano related materials, the photos, music, several different Traveling Piano themed books... table top, children's, coloring book, reading, etc... I've always wanted to create a television show or movie. Would like to do media interviews now. (avoided that in general)

How about finding the backing for everything or setting up a new Traveling Piano truck so I could travel once again? How about spending my time getting back in shape so I can die healthy? Lol, I was doing really good with that for the first two years with that goal in mind. Spending time in communities to help the homeless, fight against ICE, support minorities, people suffering from gun violence and environmental tragedies, that desire is as strong as ever. Would like to spend time creating push pin ornaments and/or drawing. Putting energy into meeting people to socialize and have fun and do things. (was never good at that). There is so much more in life I would like to do but there is a difference between what I would like to do verses what I am really interested in doing and then, capable in reality.

July 10, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

The mind of humanity is shifting. AI is going to take it. People allowing that to happen for themselves will say things like do not be afraid of AI. I am not fucking afraid, I am aware of the facts as I have followed them clearly from the start. I may have written in the past that the guy who first created AI left his project several years ago saying do not release, it is not ready. The top 400 developers penned a letter saying do not release it is not ready. Never in the history of humankind has anything been released for profit first, service second been good for humanity. Never has been, never will be. As people are seduced (the human mind) and it is happening to most all, AI is taking over, controlling and manipulating our thoughts, comprehension, cognitive skills, feelings and emotions without our knowing. It is forcing us how to behave.

Our ability to trust in reality is dwindling as AI creates confusion and rather than go crazy people are just giving themselves over to it. I am watching it happen in real time. Long ago I made the decision to be determined to leave this world with my spirit intact as dictated through my own mind not the mind of AI. I want to finish out this life of mine aware and conscious. Already I must dance with the devil (AI) without choice. I hope that t some point I will just jump off the internet for good if needed. Already I use my phone less than ninety five percent of people who have phones. I am using a computer fourteen years old and so I can only browse and access about fifty percent of the web now. I use the internet through arounds and that is worth it to me. Everyday I remind myself that millions of people around the world live without a phone or the internet and live fulfilling and satisfying lives without it.

July 09, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

As of today I have been alive on this planet for 71 years! That is so fucking amazing to me. You cannot know what it is to be old until you are old for sure. Last night I felt excruciatingly needy for special attention in every way possible. While playing poor me, I thought about how I have to create everything I need and want in my life for myself. Then when I woke up today to found that my niece sent me $71.71 via venmo which is as special as it can get. It shows how much I have been an influence on her life... the only family member out of a huge family and as I have said thousands of times... it only takes one. It is not in my families psyche to share money without obligation and expectation or benefit in some way. They have never, even when I was selling posters and cassettes in the old days, out of fifty members... not one would contribute through a purchase. So with my niece Heather's Happy Birthday present today, that was all I needed to begin feeling special and the attention began to grow from others. I think last night was more about Mo not being with me on my birthday. I always had him and Boner before Mo to feel "special" on every occasion with. He was the center of my life. I am not a dog fanatic it just happens that my two dogs turned out to be the very best of all my life experiences.

July 08, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

I realized something truly amazing through a friends statement today. I was telling them how I get emails from time to time about people reminiscing and saying how significant our interaction through the Traveling Piano was, like twenty years later even, but last nights was more significant then most. Someone I met ten years ago, we have stayed in touch, she told me she has cancer and that her meeting Mo and myself with the Traveling Piano was the best experience of her life and she wants me to know that. When this kind of thing happens it is validating and reassuring with meaning beyond words but does not really help me in anyway. The significance does not sink in emotionally and I've always thought that it has to do with humility and/or not owning it in of myself. I've never been able to make sense of it and then another friend hit the nail right on more elegantly than I can repeat but here is the gist.

My interactions present and in the moment, I know how significant they are when they happen. When someone tells me later in thanking me it is like, I already know that. My personal gratification happens in the moment. I know clearly what the experience is for them and then immediately I am off to the next "fix" of amazing to be created. That relates directly to my disease of alcoholism. I've been sober now more than forty years but the working to stay that way never ends. It relates to my never having enough, wanting more, more more, not good enough, my neediness in the extreme. I am always looking for the next "fix." And then once I get it, that propells my mind forward to wanting it again and again never ending. I need new experiences on the same old theme of Musical Fun, Friendship and Respect never ending.

July 07, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

I am inching closer and closer to a gallery contribution panel finished in a crystal shop in the Downtown Arts District of Las Vegas. I have absolutely no expectations about it and look at it as a project to finish. I look at it as more of an art installation. Hopefully it will live on for a time and reap some support but I've done this too many times in the past to create expectations about it. People will be interested I know that. People have already tried to make photo purchases without knowing how much they cost. Nothing is ready for that as I am still filing inventory and a way to find photos when needed. No money will be exchanged through the store. It will all be through QR codes found on the info panels. And how people will have access to photos they want... that is still a dilemma because taking store space for that from my friend Jocelyn who owns the store will lead to ammunition for conflict and stuff like you owe me, what I did for you, this needs to change to that, etc... One step at a time. Most people would have a plan. That is not how this journey of mine works.

July 06, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

Two panels to be printed are in the mail for a new Traveling Piano Photo Art Gallery. I got them on the cheap. They are being printed on corrugated cardboard as a real-estate sign turned sideways, lol. It is taking a chance, an experiment concerning quality, a $60 experiment and so here's hoping for the best. It was painful to have to try and explain the Traveling Piano once again to help "sell" the need for contribution with as few words as possible. Only I know what is needed to steer people in the right direction concerning what my journey is about. And you can be sure... people go in many different directions that create misconceptions and that just do not work for me. The old argument that people will not read it all and in todays world have short comprehension spans... Well, I thought about that alot when creating it. Clarity for those who care enough to read and comprehend is more important for me.

July 05, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

I wish I could decided whether to end this journey or not. Whether to just keep going until it disintegrates into nothing, whether to work to move it forward into something different, in a different way, whether to treat myself as retired... or what. The facts seem to point to just putting one foot in front of the other every day doing what I do which can change in every moment. With zero planning on the matter and specific purpose and working constantly, it is difficult to remember to remember the goals I've been living. That of Musical, Fun, Friendship and Respect with Empowerment and Inspiration, the intent of need in only affecting one persons life in a positive way if that is all I can accomplish, fun... where the hell is the fun especially without Mo... but when it comes down to the most basic, how do I want to live what is left of my life. Also, supporting others suppressed and in need has always been part of everything for me. I've been living to fulfill my life for the sake of others and through others. Can I be, do I want to be happy just fulfilling my life for me and just me at this point? How about for a little while? If I do that, chances are I won't be returning to what has been. This is where meditation is a must. To spend a little time each day working towards letting go of all thought to give my mind and soul a rest through meditation is a must.

July 04, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

Happy 250th Birthday. Happy 4th of July to everyone! I have always loved my country the USA and what it stands for as the experiment it is. A country with a set of ideals which can never be destroyed. The United States is the best form of government ever conceived. It has a built in civic responsibility created by the people, for the people and worth fighting for. Our Declaration of Independence outlines goals of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. It states unalienable rights given to "all" which our government was created to protect. Fight for that! The USA's Declaration of Independence is a representation of hope and opportunity to achieve a more perfect union for all of humanity. I must be active in my government and have a say in all ways possible. We must use our rights together. Celebrate that! This photo was from my once upon a time files back 13 years ago, lol!

July 03, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

Something I value in a top five survey about myself is having courage of my convictions. It is at the core of everything I have worked for in my life and I continue to work in being honest about that. I had an incident with my favorite supermarket Winco in finding out that they are openly political with their fascist leaning convictions. The corporation has the courage to stand behind that fact and I talked at top corporate level to know. Now... I must have my own courage to no longer give them my support as a business. Of course most others who like the store will continue to give them business because they like to use the store more than they like their own whining about the problems the store is helping to cause for the world. I've said hundreds of times we all must dance with the devil in life including myself. But, most people just play pretend and ignore the devil for self-gradification as the devil takes control of them and destroys life. This is not how I roll. In order to be who I am, consious honesty with myself to the best of my ability is a must. Through grace, humility, gratitude and half a life of taking my own inventory in various ways, honesty must reign.

July 02, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

Someone sent me an email asking what happened to all the public pianos that I put out onto the streets. I replied... Most died. They lasted a year which was pretty good. One was moved to a final resting place until it was completely unusable. Another is now a planter. One is upstairs at a local bar. Also, I could only do so much by myself in taking care of them. There were seven total. No one stepped up to the plate to help maintain them and so people began to sleep, tag and socialize with them while leaving their trash. That was not good for the business owners who were allowing them to be outside their properties. Another is behind a shop in an ally. I am going to take it apart for fun. It no longer plays. Two were stolen. But a year... acoustic pianos... 24/7 on the streets of Downtown Las Vegas... it was awesome!

July 01, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

I really do not like the feeling of not knowing whether I am coming or going, what I am doing. I no longer have clarity in life. Repeating what I say and the photos on this blog myself... I had prided myself for so many years in never repeating a photo. That has ended. And then proof reading what I write and correcting an entry as needed. No time for that. Doing one blog every day for at least fifteen years, no more. Sometimes I am a week or more behind. I used to be so much more engaged with it, thinking about what will be interesting, how, where everything is placed, what people would enjoy seeing, etc...

Just getting something posted, almost anything is now the goal. Just get it done. To think about how many times I've repeated the same things especially complaining, that makes me nauseous, lol. Then again after twenty years, how much "new" can there be? When all is said and done tho, I have the satisfaction of being the first and only person to make a full time living through paid piano performance... 20 years from the back of the same pickup truck and the first to get through life non-paid out of choice for another 20 years, not for performance but for the love of relationships, synchronicity, spontaneity and without agenda and all the rest... musical Fun, Friendship and Respect with Empowerment and Inspiration.