But when a radish meets another radish and they see each other clearly and support and love each other for their sharpness and their bitterness and their incomparable zing (yes, I am beating this metaphor into the ground. That's what we radishes do!), it's a beautiful thing. The very best of everything springs forth from that kind of primordial, aching radishy love.
Heather Havrilesky
Does anyone else feel change in the air? Maybe it's the spring. Maybe it's the astrological events. Maybe it's this age ( ... nearing 30 over here).
I was a very convicted young person. I thought I had things figured out. I knew what I believed. But it seems like the older I get the less I know - in a good way.
In the last year, scary things have happened (a melanoma diagnosis) and revelatory things have happened (an ADD diagnosis) and wonderful things have happened (a sweet new nephew) and banal things have happened. And a person keeps seeking and a person finds out that maybe there aren't any answers or tricks or requirements or secrets to any of it.
Maybe it comes down to this: if you are lucky enough to be 'free' - unattached and unconstrained - and you want adventure, you simply reach for it. Courageously or terrifyingly or both. And then you see what happens.
On that note ... I've been working on a new song. My sister says "More! I want more!" Here's a snippet. What do you think?
“The point is that anybody who is in this for the long haul has to decide how to respond to change in the zeitgeist. What is it that people now expect that they formerly didn’t want? and how to respond to that desire in a way that doesn’t change your sense of integrity and purpose.”
Milton Glaser
Here's what has been going on lately:
People are exhausting and interesting and essential and confusing.
Here is a new playlist:
And here is something poet Mary Oliver said that might be true:
This. This. This. This.
