Release of "She's Everywhere"

Alright folks, here’s the scuttlebutt.

I am releasing three songs this week. A wee ‘EP’ titled “She’s Everywhere”. I will be releasing each song independently in honor of someone who has walked (or more likely crawled and clawed through) a painstaking journey with mental health afflictions and loss.

Jen Gill, Rebecca Riek, Krista Davi-Digui

I am connected to these three women in different ways, and bearing witness to their stories has been an experience of standing on holy ground. Not because their stories are rosy, no, they are unfair and cruel; unjust and grievous.

 The holiness is in their spirits, and in their vulnerability. It’s in their commitment to standing with others in reclaiming life. It’s in the way they carry that which cannot be forgotten, while offering whatever fruit has come of the suffering to others in the name compassion and justice.

 My respect for these three women is so incredibly deep.

 My own journey is one filled with months and years of hopelessness. Depersonalization “disorder” and OCD took away my entire life, eventually giving way to clinical depression.  These songs were written on the days when the clouds briefly parted and I momentarily glimpsed something beyond the darkness.

 I share these songs with prayers for all those who feel their minds are broken – who are paralyzed by obsessive or suicidal thoughts - who struggle to hold hope and face barrier after barrier while seeking wellness. I will never know or understand what you’ve lived. Nonetheless I recorded these songs for you. Your mind is beautiful.