
The walls we build may serve their purpose, but eventually they must come down.

I have never identified anxiety as my main issue (especially having known a few people who suffer from it on a scale that I don’t even register upon), but I’ve been struggling a lot with it lately.
Luckily, I have some outlets. If I can’t fix the cause, I will happily keep working on the symptoms.

Most of the people who have seen me perform know me for having a big, powerful voice but often when I sing for myself I take a different approach.
I think this started because I felt self-conscious in my last living arrangement, but it’s becoming another way for me to connect to music. Sometimes a song needs to be shouted, but sometimes it’s nice to just let it float.

Before I had a job in Chicago, I would often walk the streets until two or three in the morning, listening to music or podcasts and thinking about what was coming next. My greatest memories of that city all involve moments of clarity spent under street lights with no one but a few nervous late night commuters to encroach on my solitude.