The year 2009, thus far, has involved quite a bit of traveling for me. Some of my journeys have been the physical kind that you likely, automatically, would presume: getting on the road or taking to the air and transporting oneself complete with baggage, hopes, dreams, and portable keyboard from one geographical location to another. Other sojourns have been of a different type: interior explorations that led to new adventures in diverse literary genres, such as essay studies of authors emerging in a major way on the world cultural stage, journalism pieces on the shifting dynamics of life in our modern global times, and other works which are not yet developed enough too discuss publicly. 

I’ve also, like many others, experienced a fair number of journeys around cyberspace and found myself delighted to meet friendly creative souls in a variety of Internet communities where I was often inspired by shared works and visions. What follows are what I refer to as seven entries from the journal of my traveling keyboards, or to put it in simpler terms, links to some of the works posted and/or published while on my journey through 2009. The titles are generally a reliable clue to the genre and subject so I suggest, if I may, that you simply click on the ones that grab your interest. After that, hopefully you will have the same experience as I on so many of my journeys and enjoy what you discover.       

Seven Entries from the Journal of Traveling Keyboard

1. Unexpurgated Review of Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s The Shadow of the Wind

2. To Walk a Lifetime in Michael Jackson’s Moccasins

3. Remembrance and Healing in America

4. The Nujazz New Millennium Soul of Maxwell’s BLACKsummers’night

5. Creative Conversatin’ Interview with Writer Nordette Adams

6. Portraits of U.S. Artists in the Southeast: Jerome Meadows

7. In the Company of these Pages

by Aberjhani
© August 5, 2009