FAWM: Deb Flanders (@kadmad202)

Deb Flanders

@kadmad202

Songs

Joined

2016

Madison, W US

Pianist, guitarist, and lifetime singer who thinks music is one of God's best ideas!

This is my 10th FAWM, and, as always, I come into February with much hope and trepidation. I have a lot of things churning around in my brain and heart right now, so maybe I’ll get some of it out musically. And just maybe, some of it will resonate with a few others. It’s also such a pleasure to listen to as many of you as I can, and to find some songs that resonate in my heart as well. Good luck to us all, and may this be a magical and meaningful month for everyone!
Looking forward to sharing in all the talent, encouragement, and goodwill that abounds here.

UPDATE: I’m having a hard time getting started this year. Nixed my first song entirely, and am now stuck on my second. It’s not a perfection thing, I think it’s heavy-hearted, no motivation thing from what is going on in this country. Anyone else feeling this way?

Songs

I Am a Stone by @kadmad202 4d #uplifting #singersongwriter #girlwithpiano

Happiness by @hummingbear + @kadmad202 4d #happy #kids

Ecclesiastes (Time to Mourn) by @kadmad202 6d #rant #electronic #outofmycomfortzone

The Softest Landing by @kadmad202 2w #heartfelt #acoustic #girlwithguitar

We Have Not Been Abandoned by @kadmad202 2w #firstfruits #reflective #singersongwriter

Soundboard

@hummingbear 7h

Yay for your music for Happiness! It’s fun and just the light touch that was needed. Love the hint of argumentation in the “pancakes are better line.” (There’s already been a dissenting opinion on this 😁.)

Thanks for sharing your musical skills! Would you mind sending me a sound file as I like to keep my own private collection of my collabs. Thanks!

@namey 9h

Hi @kadmad202, thanks for listening. I love that song and it was the most fun to do making the lyrics fit to a consistent tune. I feel like it's about something, but I have no idea what, which is a quality a lot of my favourite songs have. I also feel like this is really a threeway colaboration, because the lyrics came from a skirmish by @robinleaf, a list of bizarre song titles to choose from that the incomparable @hummingbear SOMEHOW managed to put all together into a song.

@hummingbear 4d

Yes, I’d love to hear Happiness from you!

❤️ Here’s to all the encouragement, support, and being there for one another that is rising in these times.

@hbusse 4d

I hear that, friend- there is so much turmoil right now, both around and within. I feel it too, and that big question of how to live faithfully when there is so much to mourn and so much is changing. I do find encouragement from reflecting on the example of other brothers and sisters who persevered hopefully through dark times in the past. God help us to look to His light and let it shine through us in these days. ❤️

@hummingbear 5d

Read your update, yes I had a very hard time getting into things this year. Hard to write from a calm and constructive perspective when the world is all a-roil.

There's a T evening and W afternoon Zoom and that did help. Got good encouragement and advice. It helped to write a couple songs to vent some of the feelings. Over the weekend I was able to write some other things, but I'm still not getting the pleasure I usually do out of FAWM. But there's still time.

Have you listened to https://write.fawm.org/songs/306101?highlight=steal+my+joy ? Recommend it!

@audrey 1w

Thanks for listening and leaving such a nice comment on my song Grace. I appreciate it.

@kahlo2013 1w

Thanks for your comment on my GB song! I’m always happy to get together and share what I know and learn from you! Also let me know if you are interested in a collab this FAWM, if so let me know if there is a theme or topic or genre I could write!

@bethdesombre 1w

Right there with you on the difficulty of songwriting in this moment. The last time the US did this to ourselves I got mad and wrote an entire political album during FAWM (that I released and used as a fundraiser for the ACLU). This time I'm mostly feeling despair, and going mostly personal instead of political -- I guess I feel like I can't let myself get as angry (or despondent) as I would need to to face all of that (in songwriting). Good luck! (and thank for the comments).

@johncrossman 1w

Slow starters anonymous, we'll start a club! But if it's anonymous, we won't know who's in it. Nonetheless, I'm recommending a secret handshake. Whoops, that was a typo, what I meant was a chocolate milkshake!

@tippyteapot 1w

Thanks for listening to my dumb and dumber song :) Wasn't the #firstfruits I was expecting from myself either lol.

@jonmeta 2w

Happy birthday!

@hummingbear 2w

So glad you're back, Deb. It's a year for roiling brains and hearts, isn't it? Let the creative processing begin.

I've got a new computer, so I only got my email set up last night. There are a few accessibility issues to finesse before I can really start exercising my brain. 😁

@jonmeta 2w

Hey Deb! So good to see you you back. I'm looking forward to your creativity.
Mr Collie is realizing that music is what I'm doing these days, and he's slowly relaxing into it. But there could always be a cameo!
Happy FAWMing!

@johncrossman 2w

Hip hip!

@hbusse 3w

Hooray, you're back! :)