India (Xandria album) is the same of "Ravenheart". The recordings took place with some interruptions used for further song writing and arranging from December 2004 to June 2005. The album was released on August 22, 2005 and reached #30 in the German album charts. Christopher Columbus wanted to reach the goal of finding a new sea route to India. He never discovered it, but something just as important—America. Just like he sailed westwards filled with his goal, we are striving for our goals in life, maybe even for our one and only goal. And often we find, like Columbus, something completely different on
A Good Man Is Hard to Find (short story) Milledgeville, Georgia, at "Flannery O'Connor: the Visionary and the Vernacular," an interdisciplinary conference sponsored by Georgia College and State University (and home of the Flannery O'Connor Library). In 2007, the work was performed at the University of Virginia's College at Wise where Dr. Volk teaches as Assistant Professor of Music. The American folk musician Sufjan Stevens adapted the story into a song going by the same title. It appears on his 2004 album "Seven Swans". The song is written in the first person from the point of view of The Misfit. A Good Man Is Hard to Find (short story)