Shane Leslie Mattison's Reel

Dom Aelred Carlyle osb was a great visionary restorationist of the Monks of St Benedict and his Rule. This was an utterly remarkable leader. With no monastic resources per se in the Church of England, Carlyle went doggedly about, a modern day Saint Dunstan, atteracting many to the monastic tree he conceived of and built - Caldey, Prinknash, Nashdom (which was my place of intersection in the story) and Pluscarden Abbies ~ what a legacy of abundant fruit for a convert! Here's one of the...

Sign of the Cross: In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen Nicene Creed Credo in unum Deum, Patrem omnipotentem, factorem caeli et terrae, visib...

Sancta Mater, Sancta Maria Ora Pro Nobis

Blonde on Blue is the name of the album and the lead off song of chanan lesli mattison (shannon). The album (and the song) has had its official release at Kaos Jazz Ni...

A Russian, Kamchatkan beauty, Milla Chernetski, (American Film Institute) was proposed as a lead with SHane for "Broke Wing Angel" a film proposal of Brent SPiess (Purple Toast with Calum Rennie). Shane played the poet Milla met in AMerica, as she ran from the Russian Mafia to whom her late husband was in debt. she becomes an "exotic dancer" - takes an alias, and contemplates the sacrifice of herself on sacred First Nation land as the Mob close in...

berklee is about one of my flight attendant loves... but in a way, all my songs are about donna from victoria!

sandefjord is the women in my life who were all beautiful, but only one became a bride... like joni mitchell, not one of them remained...so i had to turn to spiritual discipline as "the lonely goatherd.."