Sage

I would wake up on the cold mornings
To my moms fingers in my hair.
Three parts, tied up, braided
Now I get up to get prepared
To face the morning, the frost on all the windows.

I sit down in the kitchen.
My mother sits beside
Into my palm she places
Half of a small, grey green leaf.
I break it like she taught me
And she does the same.
Crushed between our fingers
The small does now exclaim
A smell that momma always says will be what heaven smells of
A smell that someone can't describe,
After all it is a part of nature itself-
As each of us is-
And so only comparisons suffice,
A smell of earth and home and hurt and love.

I watch momma smell her damaged leaf
She looks sadly out the window.
I know she often feels quite hurt
and the sage helps her know so.
The smell helps her remember
Not everything is good or bad
Some you just must remember.

In My Bones -Ron Pope

"But it's my fault, I don't care. I can't hate you if you're not here"
"The truth about the two of us is that we don't make no sense,"
I love this song. It has some really nice pieces that catch my ear when I listen to it. Even though it's a sad song it doesn't really sound like it when I just listen to the background. I like that when you put them together it makes a complex mood to the whole song.

Menagerie of music!

I've been finding all sorts of good music in unusual places recently. It's exciting!
The first good song is by Erick Baker. I first heard it on a not usually music playing radio station... So that made it unusual to start out. The Last Time is bitter and dark but really awesome and I would really be more than happy to just listen to it all the time. He is really, really good.
Next we have Jasmine Thompson. I heard her on Pandora singing "Let Her Go" and it was really good. I listened to her sing "I See Fire" as well and if those two are anything to judge by she is just really good in general.
The next band is one I've liked for a while. Like most every one else in the world I found Augustana through "Boston," but when their song Hey Now came up on my pandora I found that it was really nice too. I'm not sure that it can beat the previous two though....