Radical Transparency

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Like The Love That Let Us Share Our Name

L and I made our first visit to the Nokia Theater in downtown LA last night. Roving vendors cruise the aisles selling M&Ms and $5 popcorn. And, amazingly, beautiful musical moments abound anyway. For example:

After leaping across the stage for 90 minutes, Scott Avett put his banjo down and picked up an acoustic guitar. Seth Avett, dripping sweat, dropped his guitar and walked to the microphone next to Scott's. The rest of the band left the stage. And Scott sang his little brother a song....

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Murder in the City is track 9 on I and Love and You. And, apparently, there's at least one other way to perform it.

But in Vain I Could Tell

I wonder about Felina.

Where does this leave her?

She never loved the singer.  But, by the end of the story, she saw his love for her.  Saw how big it was, how overwhelming, how scary.

I wonder if she wants something like it for herself someday.

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Sailing

My cousin Parker drives to Wilmington, North Carolina to start his first semester of college tomorrow.  I cried thinking about him leaving tonight.  And not because I was sad that these past six months are over - a six months during which P and I have been geographically close enough to have had the option to hang out almost any day we've wanted to (and taken the option quite a bit).  But because I am overwhelmingly excited about how much I love that dude.  And because I am overwhelmingly excited about the next phase of our friendship, a phase that I'm sure will be even better.

Parker and I made a big connection listening to this song and talking about it this fall and winter.

It's called Sailing to Philadelphia, and it's track 2 on Sailing to Philadelphia.  Mark Knopfler and James Taylor are involved.

And that's P in the picture.  Our grandfather took my sister, our cousin Tyler, Parker, and me flyfishing one day last summer.

P_at_swiftwater

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