It’s impossible to measure the depth to which my partner and children have influenced my life. The ways that we impact one another--especially as a parent or child--is so enduring. That may be good or it may be bad.
I wrote this song early one morning. It was very cold, a snowy, wintery day in Winnipeg. I had opened the church early to give our neighbours a warm place to rest, work, chat, and sip great coffee. As I wrote this song, there were several women sitting nearby and I played the song for them. As we talked about dads and daughters, I found that every one of them had come from divorced families and situations that had deeply impacted their own relationships and lives. How important it is to be careful... to be responsible with our actions. Once they’re committed, or once the words are spoken, we have no control over how they might continue to grow in the lives of the people closest to us.
In this song I wanted to express my enduring love for Sheila, and my deep appreciation and acknowledgment of my oldest daughters brilliant social awareness, and my youngest daughter’s extraordinary poetic spirit. However life may turn--and there are unexpected twists in our stories--I wanted to speak words of truth and life into their imaginations of themselves.
Someone needs to write more about the consociality of human identity...
lyrics
For fifteen years you’ve been my bride
Young love aging
With fifteen more and you by my side
Love born again
Things just keep changing
But a constant through the years
Is how you’ve made me
And I wanted you to hear it straight from me
I love you
You’re nine years old and oh, how you see
Wisdom beyond your years
And you cast this light
On your mother and me
Love born again
Things just keep changing
But a constant through the years
Is how you’ve made me
And I wanted you to hear it straight from me
I love you
You’re six years old
In the blink of an eye
You taste life so wonderfully
And you share this feast
With your mother and I
Love born again
Things just keep changing
But a constant through the years
Is how you’ve made me
And I wanted you to hear it straight from me
I love you
Gorgeous fingerstyle guitar playing from this Portland, Oregon musician that captures the spirit of American Primitive in dazzling detail. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 30, 2021
