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I recently stumbled upon this wonderful woman's work via Spotify and I was very intrigued by the editing of her song I Have Considered the Lillies. The song seemed unexpectedly modern because there was a snippet of her speaking to other people in the room with her before she started playing the guitar and singing along. Because of this, I got curious and scrolled to her bio to see that apparently she went missing in her 40's, never to be found again. In a note she left tucked behind her filing cabinet before she left, she wrote, "let me go, let me be if I can, let me not be if I can't."
Her music lets us in on a glimpse behind a woman who felt so deeply, and despite her not finding the success she wanted in her time, I am happy to say that now in the heyday of confessional singer-songwriter music, her music has found a stage wherein the fiercely honest, tender, and vulnerable lyrics she wrote can at long last be appreciated as it always should have been.
I hope she found a life she loved, in the end. I hope she loved and wrote and lived the life fitting for a soul so beautiful.
Oct 30, 2024
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a post-disappearance release from a #mother of the singer-songwriter genre about love, the self, and life’s silly happenings. a mysterious and powerful artist with a penchant for humor and sadness, and the writer of one of the most relatable quotes i’ve ever heard: “human society fascinates me & awes me & fills me with grief & joy; i just can't find my place to plug into it.”
highlights: talkin like you (two tall mountains), man in the sky, there is a vine, i have considered the lillies
Jan 26, 2024
It's haunting and melancholy but very passionately performed. If you like Christine and the Queens, Holly Humberstone, or Holly Herndon for that matter, you'll dig this probably (but put through a Celtic filter). Came out in April and I keep returning to it. Especially "Life of the Forbidden," "Wee Rosebud," "Into This, Called Lonliness," and the closing track "S.O.S. Song of the Sword" is VERY on the Kate Bush tip.
Jul 12, 2024
i just discovered this woman last night and i am so moved and amazed. a ton of her music was released posthumously today. please listen. please google her. there’s a documentary about her life that’s getting a limited release soon and i already bought my ticket
Feb 21, 2025
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I am pretty certain that I am with the person I'm going to marry. We've been through so much together and no one in the world has ever known me as intimately as he does. My soul is crystal clear to him. And he loves me.
Most importantly, he is always ready to learn even more about me and to evolve with me and to make space for me in his life, in his habits, and in his behaviour.
I love him so much. I'm so lucky. I hope I find him in all my other lives. I hope we're together until the end of time.
Nov 29, 2024
My baby son makes my life so beautiful. Unbelievable luck that we live in the world where we have befriended cats and that they can trust us and would seem so overjoyed to see us come home. This little guy's in my home and I am in his.
Nov 30, 2024
But I call him poopie, monkey, pukicho, angel bear, or munino.
Feb 14, 2025