“Soul healing music” – that’s what the slightly shocked tourist at the airport called what I play as he dropped a bill into my guitar case.
“I wouldn’t expect to find you HERE!” he said, shaking his head, bemused but grateful.
It’s not that I heal anything, really. More like I affirm the humanity we go so much of our lives trying to cover up. In certain stressful places (like airports) hearing even that much of a reminder that we are OK as we are is profound.
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Holy Howl came to me like this…
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It's the plot of countless holiday movies - successful, creative adult gets singled out as not good enough by their family because they have an unconventional career and are often single. After being worn down Holiday season after Holiday season they just want a break...so they lure someone in faking being their partner, only to fall in love for real and have all of their life tidied up so that next Christmas they can fit all of their families expectations for real.
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You’re right….it IS different.
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Probably because it was generally preceded with things like "you should just be" and followed by things like "that you even have a job/boyfriend/home/access to a buss" and so on. Gratitude doesn't work when it's being used as a way to avoid or downplay the pain in your life. You don't want what you don't want, and the fact that you don't want it is a good enough reason to change whatever that circumstance is.
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“It felt like you were singing right to me” is the most humbling phrase any songwriter can hear. It doesn’t matter how unique the circumstances seem to me, the more vulnerable I am on the page the more resonant the music is . We’re hungry for confirmation that we aren’t alone. pain Your pain can still feel like a shameful secret, even when you’re in a global pandemic and you know your friends and neighbors are deep in the fray with you. Then you hear some line, some lyric, someone says exactly what you’re thinking and it all comes out like a sigh.
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When your finances become dragons what’s a girl to do?
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