PAMELA MORTENSEN

Greetings from Oregon! I have been here for about a month playing for a couple of gigs and generally traveling, taking photos, video and doing a lot of hiking. I arrived here in mid-July to play for Flutestock Festival which…

There’s been a lot on my mind lately about fitting into this world versus making your own world. Earlier this morning, I wrote the following in my journal: 

I have no desire to fit in the world as it is.…

I feel like being a quiet disruptor today. Hearing the news of wars, shootings, corruption and so much more it's easy to feel this world is going mad. I'm turning to favor something better. Showing something better. Using my art…

Author’s Disclaimer: This is an article written completely from stream-of-consciousness with no editing so it may seem a bit grammatically rough and redundant in places. I wanted to leave it this way because it’s more sincere and closest to how…

Over the past few months, I’ve been thinking a lot about the parallels between being a musician and learning skills, practice habits and mindsets etc. and how those can translate over to life skills. In all honesty, I've been hesitant…

Before I start, I just want to ask……how are you doing? I asked this at the beginning of the pandemic and everyone seemed to be doing alright. But now after two years of some of the most turbulent times we’ve…

I just read through this story I wrote back in March of 2016 called The Shaman Child. It was something I wrote it as a song, as prayer of finding one's way back to remembering who they are why they…

Sometimes, it’s hard to know what to say when you’re feeling the full weight of being human. It’s not necessarily depression. It’s more like the energy is down but the spirit is still there and it’s like something is whispering…

Happy New Year from what has been a snowy Olympic Peninsula! I hope your year is getting off to a beautiful and brilliant start and that this is the beginning of a year for all our dreams to come true.

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Hello Everyone!

Winter is on its way. It’s been storming, raining, windy and snowing like mad in the mountains for the past two days. It all has made the intense heat and dryness of this past summer a mere memory…