These songs are among the oldest songs I’ve written, having been started many years ago, but never finished.  As I took a fresh look at each song I sometimes started from an old and rough recording of a more or less complete song.  In other instances I started with just a scrap of music and lyrics.  In all instances, however, I remember quite well my goals in writing the original.  This allowed me to stay close to my original intent while bringing the benefits of life-lived to the arrangements and lyrics.  

​Life-lived: it’s funny how that works.  I can look at each of these songs and see that younger me was on to something: I was touching a personal truth.  Sometimes it was my reaction to a story in the news.  Sometimes I was reflecting on a person who was or who had been in my life.  Sometimes it was something I was experiencing.  But younger me often lacked the musical and experiential background to appropriately express what I was feeling. Perhaps that’s why the tunes were left undone