Letters, Reflections & The Stories That Shaped Me
The songs, stories, writers, places, and pieces of culture that leave fingerprints on our lives. Reflections inspired by literature, jazz, old films, forgotten places, poetry, and the way memory seems to live inside music and books long after the moment has passed.
Right now, I am standing in the parking garage of my apartment building, having a cigarette, listening to Nick Drake sing Northern Sky. I’m listening to the rain outside, the soft patter of raindrops on the street below. My eyes drift over, and I notice a duck walking, or maybe more accurately, wiggling through the…