As the world began to re-emerge and vaccines were beginning to be administered, I felt like grieving for the world. Many have been so hopeful for life to get back to normal and for this notion I felt the sadness creep in, that maybe we have lost the lesson or don't want to face the truths about our planets need for healing, essentially our need to transcend what we have known as normal. I wrote the preliminary lyrics of this song and then got stuck and reached out to a friend and music mentor, John "Milo" Milosich to see if he might want to collaborate with me on the song. Not only did he agree, but stepped up to write the music and add some some poignant lyrics. This planted the seed for my journey to collaborate with other musicians and record the 15 songs I began writing or finished during the quarantine. The video also includes a collaboration between two artists and good friends, Rose Zaeske, who did the sketches of me and Milo seen in the video, and Roger Creus, who created the video, which includes a few of his digital art works. Roger's art, The Gate, is shown in the video, is also this months featured art print for patrons of For the Music & Art tier. I hope you enjoy the song & video as much as I did getting to create it with Milo and that it inspires you to remember that we still have so much transformative work to do in healing this planet and all the living beings upon it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g9oUdVKuN0