What’s In A Name?

The battle is over and the Thiele family lost. After input from many friends (and a few enemies) we’ve decided to change the spelling of my last name from Thiele to TEALY. As a child, my friends were so mortified of mispronouncing my name that would just call me “James Tee-Dot” as in James T. (I guess they were scared to go any further than the “T”). Or they would aim their darts instead at “James Tea Leaves.” Ahhh, Good times. So…you may pronounce my name as was always intended, but for the sake of the record it will now be spelled TEALY. Questions? Comments? Direct your mocking here.

New Site Launch

The April Showers have begun their deluge of the deep South. The new CD will be mastered tomorrow. The new jamesthiele.com is up today! Doy Cave has been hard at work for weeks redesigning this site and…the power just went out. Too much rain this morning I guess.

It’s a beautiful moment, actually. The house is dim and the air is still; still enough that I can hear Dakota breathing curled up on the cold tile floor next to my feet. I can hear water dripping from the kitchen sink (I should fix that some day). There’s a train on the tracks two blocks away and I think there are some kids playing in the rain puddles just down the street.

I hope your day gets quiet enough that you hear how blessed you are, how surrounded you are by life and hope. Here’s to the quiet. Thanks for visiting.

Peace,
James