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Redheading #9 – A Blazing Star ⭐️ to guide me home
Joshua Bley // Blazing Star, 2025 www.joshuabley.com RIYL: Elliott Smith, Tori Amos, Ben Folds, Florence and the Machine After a translatlantic adventure last October, my flight landed back in Ohio. In a jet-lagged, liminal emotional space, I watched the skyline against the river as the car zoomed down the highway to take me home. I…
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Redheading #8 – A wee update…
…Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the unplanned, off-the-cuff post! Hey everybody, how’s it going? It’s been a minute! I just wanted to give a little update on all things Redheading. I know it’s been a bit quiet on the posting front, both here and on socials. But I promise you I’ll…
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Redheading #7 – On a dark day
Friends, I’ll keep this short and sweet. Let the heat of your righteous anger rise. Let it spark a flame in your heart to protect the vulnerable. Let that light shine right out of you – in your words and, most importantly, your actions. Let it shine on everything that is dark and hidden.…
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Redheading # 6 – The Librarian & The Tortured Poet
[Note: It’s taken me two months to write this! I’ve filled many pages of my notebook with little scribblings about the intersections of Tori and Taylor’s work. And at some point, I realized I probably can’t do it all in one go. So, since I have so much to say on this topic, consider the…
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Redheading #5 – She is Risen
Hey everybody, how’s it going? It’s been a while. Life has been life-ing since I last wrote to you. I’m finally starting to dig myself out of complete burnout and back to writing. It’s been a rough 10 years or so, and I hear that, astrologically speaking, I am due a big glow up and…