Courage - Villagers
from the album Darling Arithmetic (2015) Last night, I broke out my secret strawberry daiquiri recipe. It is likely not that different than a thousand other recipes, but this one is mine and it is a secret. That counts for something. I took my dogs and walked down to a floating dock on a secluded southern lake. I sat there as the late evening turned to night. Drinking and thinking about the past eighteen months while my dogs patrolled the dock waiting for the sweeping bats to get close enough to die. I thought about how everything derailed for me over those months. But somehow, I stuck it thru and just might have come out the other side. I think of the friends I've lost along the way. Some forever, others hopefully not. Then I started thinking about this blog. Thinking about how last August I all but shut it down only to find I could not walk away. I also thought about the promises I made to myself to find my way back into the world of music. It feels like I'