Ted Seymour - Explorations of Truth
While sailing northward in British Columbia yesterday on a beautiful gentle breeze day, I was thinking about how I was feeling the true sense of freedom that can come with sailing that I had been dreaming about when writing this song, “Freedom’s Call.” Feeling that breeze on my cheek connected with the unmistakable sense of […]
Here’s a new song of mine called “Move Along.” I started it while camping and sitting along a stream in the Tahoe National Forest in California as the heavy snowmelt created rushing rapids that made it feel very river-like. I worked on the song off an on for the next month or so until I […]
I want to present to you another song of mine called “Harry Isn’t Happy,” though this one harkens back many years to a time where I lived a life very different from the one I live now. I lived in San Francisco and later Oakland building a systems consulting company with my friend and business […]
“Fresh Baguette” is a song I wrote recently while camping in my van alongside the Hoh River on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. It came through relatively quickly over a few days of concerted effort, but it took about another month for the song to finally stop moving and relax into the form in which […]
Two years ago, when I took off for my first summer of van travels, I began to understand the power of freedom in a different way. Spending extended time in a van allowed life and time to flow in a more free-flowing, less encumbered way. Ease and simplicity became not just concepts, but actual values […]
I wrote this song while on a recent road trip in my van. While driving, I always have a lot of time to think and generally prefer to leave the radio silent. Noticing all the small towns along the way with their water towers announcing their names to drivers passing by, I started to think […]