We moved in when the lilacs were flowering and spent the summer tracking what would become the album Lavender .

That's how you live free

To truly see and be seen

Knowing I should be held not as meteors are discovered:

long after their time, funneled by obsolescence

but fondled as ribbons in the sky do each other:

stretching a graze to an entanglement, whatever which way the wind blows.

L – Love

I think this might actually be a bell hooks definition:being invested in someone else’s spiritual growth. Also, Ann says that showing up is 100 percent of the work. Love is showing up.

I write about hope, but a lot of my songs start with some sort of conflict, and then in the middle of the track, you transform and figure out a way to deal with that issue. It’s not escapist; it’s trying to deal with real issues.

If you have found human beings like this, I hope you protect them. I hope you risk your heart for what you feel. I hope you believe that you are worthy of something full, and pointed and real. I hope you never settle for less, because certain people are truly just rare, beautiful drops of borrowed light that find their way to you.

I wrote this song for Patrick, for our ten year anniversary. I wanted to write a love song that described deep-rooted companionship, where the spark of new love has been replaced by a gravitational pull.