It’s been twenty years since I wrote my first good song. Before that, I loved songs from afar, with all the ache and daydream teenage love requires. I was sixteen, sitting on the porch, up early having never gone to sleep. I felt like I had been let into the center of the universe. Songs are my passion, my field of study, and my life partner. I love their playfulness and their human-scale brevity. I love melody and metaphor, distilling huge emotions into something we can know and hold. A song can be a small mercy; a cup of tea, a butterscotch. A song can clarify us, like a plunge into the sea. Songs can forgive us our darkest urges, reveal the best in us, and give us hope. A good song makes holy our little human problems; a great song laughs at them and makes them rhyme. Songs, to me, make this drowning world worth saving. from bandcamp - https://carsieblanton.bandcamp.com/album/body-of-work-2023 licensed CC BY-NC-SA