Music

Let’s talk about some of my music for a minute.

“Walks”

This song was about me finding out what I wanted was actually a lot more basic then I thought. What I really enjoy and like is smaller parts of life, like walks in the neighborhood with someone special. Maybe that could be romantic in nature but also have you ever just tried walking around with your own neighbors? Highly recommend, you will come back feeling more grounded and you’ll feel the support of the tribe that is from your area. They have your back, will you have theirs? Will you tell them you do? I sure hope you do.

“Coffee, Sunrise, and a Song”

This song was about my morning ritual of how I start most days, I journal a lot about just about everything I experience in life. I didn’t use to do this, and honestly I likely lived in an environment and under circumstances I felt way to overwhelmed to do this. I always felt like I was OK at writing but I never really did anything with it. Rediscovering this and really leaning into it in the past year for lack of better words saved my life. Maybe that is why I am so inspired to share the story, because I want you to share yours. Maybe you don’t write music that gets published but if you reach out to anyone in your community, a friend or family member and share something you created in any version of art it might make you feel a little better about life, and that’s all I’ve ever wanted to provide anyone. I made it my goal to try to write a few songs a week, and this song is about how I got into the habit of doing that, turning my experiences into songs, and practicing often with quantity feeling like I can polish quality into it later as I get older and wiser.

“The Thirtys Wave”

This is a song about observing everyone later in life uncoupling with people. This doesn’t actually always happen in your 30s but its also a pretty likely time for it to happen. Sometimes when I hear of breakup there is something clear that created the divide. This song isn’t for those type of situations, this is for the couples that looked like everything was going fine, but needed to make the hard choice to make a change anyway. It’s about appreciation and reflection for both sides of that story. Sometimes why we part ways isn’t because of anything evil, it’s just a slight mismatch of some aspect of life. The easier life gets for everyone as a community the more likely these type of feelings are to surface but that means we are living in a world of relationship freedom which I think in most ways is fantastic. We used to bond because we needed to live, now we bond in a much more fluid way, lots of options, so many choices, you might drowned in the options but maybe you find your person. Even if you live alone, you likely wouldn’t die at least quickly, I don’t think we are used to that bandwidth, and I think it’s good but a lot of us will live alone for a generation or two as we figure that out. I also think it’s good for people not to settle if they think there is some situation better for them out there but It’s going to be a lonely road, but sometimes the lonely path is the right one. Also alone romantically doesn’t mean you are without community or connection, it just might not look like it historically has.