For a couple years in the early 2000’s, a sadness settled in that nearly got the best of me, and sitting at the piano singing old songs I’d learned from people who had loved me - songs that had been given to them the same way -is what saved me. In 2004 I put 10 of those songs https://twitter.com/Jayson_Greene/status/1353360006402486272

on a record and called it Lifeline.
Today, reading for the second time Jayson Greene’s beautifully written piece, I know his words matter and I know why. Because even though it’s my name that’s scattered throughout, I know that what he’s really telling us about is the Lifeline

and as long as we have writers like him, who are able and willing to return us to the important parts, we just might be ok. Maybe even better than ok. We just might be saved.