Your energy is an undercurrent, always alive no matter how deep the freeze.
Sometimes the winter comes for my creativity. Maybe I should get softer…I know I would love to write more, create more, process more, savor more. When I feel this way and get close to it—to creating—my blood freezes up like I’m standing on the edge of a jagged cliff or as if there is a tarantula slowly crawling between my spirit and the page.
So the instinct is to avoid—as if by looking away, I will be safer. But I know, even if the knowing is very deep below the iceberg, that my spirit will be safest in the cushion of what it means to create.
Your energy is an undercurrent, always alive no matter how deep the freeze. Acknowledging the value of a wintery pause, I wish for you the courage to thaw—to put pen to paper, make this friction that heats up the marrow and the invisible stuff that makes you feel okay, and beyond that, alive—never farther than a breath from beauty. <3
JUNIPER TREE UPDATES
Live in Richmond THIS Thursday!
On the subject of thawing out the wintery numb, and pursuing motion and introspection during the colder months, we’d like to invite you to our next RVA show this Thursday 1/18 at Get Tight Lounge in the Fan. We’ll be playing with our wonderful 4-piece band, alongside Virginia Man & Jacob Ritter, and really cannot wait for the opportunity to hopefully see some of you out there! Dress in warm cozy layers & bring your people 🙂
‘Juniper Tree’ is available for streaming & download
We can’t thank you enough for your incredibly kind reception of our first album, now available on all of the internet places as well as on physical CDs that we bring with us to shows! In case you haven’t heard it yet—
Listen on Spotify | Listen on Apple Music | Listen/Download on Bandcamp
Leesta Vall Sound Recordings
On March 7th of this year, we are heading up to Leesta Vall Sound Recordings in Brooklyn, New York to record a handful of unique direct-to-vinyl singles. If you are interested in purchasing one, the preorders are live! Each vinyl will be lathe-cut as we record a personal message and then play a one-of-a-kind performance of a song of your choosing. I love the way Leesta Vall describes it as like a Polaroid but for music! Check it out and learn more here: https://leestavall.com/products/junipertree
INSPIRATION LATELY
I am currently taking a songwriting workshop through School of Song with Adrianne Lenker. Her thoughtful insights about creativity, intuition, and being receptive to songs have opened me up to writing for the first time in many months. As wintery as the weather is, my inner songwriter feels like it’s springtime.
What has inspired you recently?
BEFORE YOU GO,
A POEM FOR THE ROAD:
Total Lunar Eclipse (January 21, 2019)
In a matchless gradient of color, our brilliant moon gradually darkens to embery red against a crisp and black and very cold sky. It whispers power. I am presented with my own celestiality, invited to convene with everything else, put surely in place… There I am on the Moon in a shadow. Here I am on the Earth below. The dark veil covers and kills my apathy— buries it in the winter-hardened ground. Electricity meets the feet underneath me. My body understands the motion of the rock she walks. Deep red warms the blood. Life that was frozen begins to flow. My chest feels full and breaths connected… Belonging—leaving— swelling—thinning, affected—drawn— illuminated—shrouded, death—life— ending—beginning, riveted—revived— entranced—snapped out of it.
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