16 December: A Wreath of Ivy

This one turned out alright I think, and was surprisingly easy to write, even though there were a lot of other things going on in the day and I had to do it pretty fast. I used to get stressed about mundane activities like eating and cleaning preventing me from writing my tunes during Advent, but this year I have a strange but pleasant feeling that everything will manage to get done, even when I can’t see how they will get done. And so far that has pretty much held true. No doubt today will break the pattern.

11 December: [Old song]

Because it’s Wynn’s (sixth) birthday I can’t do any songwriting today, so instead I scrolled down to my oldest Youtube songs and found this one which seems better to me today that it did when I wrote it. Seeing myself from twelve years ago is remarkable. The last six years seem compressed into a small handful of moments, seeming occupying almost no time at all, whereas the six years prior seem like a desert of time infinite in extent, and in which I was able to do whatever I wanted. And the key to understanding this, I suppose, is that it is Wynn’s (sixth) birthday today. And the meaning of putting a video on line also seems to have changed. Back then it seemed thrilling and innocent, whereas now it feels banal, and also more questionable.