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  <div class="message"><p>This is a little delayed, but I feel the need to document it.</p>
<p>The night before heading back to Minneapolis to bury my father, I stayed over with my sister and her husband (airport logistics and whatnot).  After a meal of delicious Thai food and too many gingery drinks while perched in the kitchen, we got into an impassioned discussion about sexual harassment and inequality.  My sister and I traded war stories about harassment, including experiences with bosses calling us drunk on Valentine's Day and peers cornering us in our cars to profess attraction during a lunch run.  My brother-in-law listened to these stories in amazement.  To his credit, he shared stories about how his male peers believe men and women are equal, and how the things my sister and I were sharing were outside the realm of possibility for these guys.  </p>
<p>It made me realize that most women go through this, and most men are still blind to it.  It's getting better, but slowly.  Sometimes we play along because our survival is at stake; it's easier to just flirt back then to risk retaliation.  But we're all tired of playing this game.  On the plane ride back from Minneapolis, I started channeling these sentiments into a song for the next album. </p></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>Yesterday, Peter and I had a rare experience in the studio.  We failed.  I mean, completely failed at starting a new song.</p>
<p>It started just like every other song we've built so far.  I brought him vocals and some examples of songs I'd like it to sound like.  He helped build the underlying chord progression, and then we started with the instrumentation.  But everything he tried sounded wrong, and I couldn't manage to articulate why.  He ended up building some interesting percussion, but it wasn't anything like what I expected or could hear in my head.  </p>
<p>I'm shaken about the whole thing. How did this happen?  If I was in my right mind, I suppose I would be asking how this hasn't happened yet.  But not right now.  Now I'm wondering if we'll ever click on another song again.  Imposter syndrome creeping in.  Doubts about my abilities as a songwriter.  I feel a spiral coming.      </p></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>Last Monday, Good Morning was featured on episode #903 (!!) of the award-winning <a contents="Women of Substance" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.wosradio.com/" target="_blank">Women of Substance</a> Radio podcast.  I'll admit that I hadn't heard of WOS before researching ways to get the word out about my album (I was also on somewhat of a self-imposed music media blackout while producing CZ), but I am extremely impressed with the quality of other musicians featured.  Seriously, go check it out!  It's overwhelming trying to navigate the glut of independent music available, and Bree Noble does an excellent job curating up and coming artists.  I will be listening to WOS regularly.  </p>
<p>Just in case you need another reason to check it out, War Paint will be featured on episode #908 on Friday 1/18 and Time Machine will be featured on episode #911 on Friday 1/25.  Very honored and humbled to be featured in such good company!</p>
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  <div class="message"><p>The week between Christmas and New Year's was very restful.  I haven't had that much time to myself in a decade.  Between the first album, the promotion, the holidays, my father's death, and the next album... I've been in emotional overdrive for as long as I can remember.   </p>
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<p>An anxiety switch has been flipped off, or maybe just burnt out completely.  I'm no longer in survival mode.  I'm not focused on the future.  I'm trying to enjoy everything I've fought for.  But I know it won't last.  Everything is temporary.       </p>
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  <div class="message"><p>Today, Peter &amp; I started the song I had been writing about my father when he abruptly died a few weeks ago.  It's titled <em>Boiled Away</em>.  We had a good conversation about family before diving in.  We all revert back to children before we go, don't we? </p>
<p>I'm really pleased with what we've done with this song already.  Even in its current form, it would feel perfectly at home in a <em>Peaky Blinders</em> episode.  </p>
<p>We did one really rough vocal take at the end of the studio session, but I have a feeling most of it will make it into the final cut. It felt genuine.    </p></div>
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