Down here at the end of the year 2020

I felt a creeping restlessness while checking in with social media this week. There is such a pressure at the end of December to wrap up each year in a nice little package. Every app has its end of the year data as advertisement that everyone posts everywhere because we love to share information about ourselves. And there are also the year end lists and essays and articles, all attempting to make sense of twelve months as if they were episodes in one season of a Netflix show.

I’m trying to resist the temptation to do that, which makes this blog post I’ve been planning to write troublesome. I was going to reflect on the year, what I had planned for it, how it turned out, lessons learned, gratitude acquired…but I’m not going to do that. Instead, I’m going to share this setlist and link to a Facebook Livestream I did on the Winter Solstice and let it all be:

Winter Solstice Show // 12.21.20 Everyone Looks Different / Evicted / Crash the Party / Daylight Saving / The True Love Who Loved Me / All My Friends Are In The Valley / Feet to the Fire / I Trimmed My Beard Today / Are You Still In Love With The World? (Raina Rose cover) / The American West / Thinking About the Bad / Present Day or 1492 / The Information Age / Praying for Time (George Michael cover) / At the End of the Year

The days are getting longer again now. The nonlinear progression of time continues, however we choose to make sense of it by chopping it into pieces and naming them. After awhile, the days will get shorter again. I am grateful to still be here, watching the days come and go, singing my songs for whoever takes the time to listen. I will continue to do so as long as I am able.