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I haven’t posted here recently because my energy has been focused on writing songs. I included a song in my last post, which was meant to be listened to while viewing the rest of the post. It turns out if you post a cryptic bandcamp link with no context only one person will actually click on it, so I have to do blatant self-promotion no matter how much I don’t want to.

I was a hurricane of frustration and anger all day on Tuesday. I get better at managing the demands of my job all the time but I’m still learning how to spot burnout before I’m on fire. When I finally sat with my feelings for a minute at the end of the day, this song was the result.

Most of the songs I’ve been writing have a lot more words than this one and I’ve been kind of laboring over them, so it was refreshing to get this feeling out quickly without overthinking or over-explaining it. Writing and recording a tiny song in 30 minutes feels like a good antidote to the perfectionism that’s always threatening my ability to be creative.