Wild GEese

The day Mary Oliver passed away, I re-listened to her interview on the show onbeing - that’s where I got this excerpt of her reading "wild geese." I love this poem so much and it has always felt like it was there for me to re-discover whenever I needed its wisdom. I walked around the lake in Austin listening to her voice and imagining her patient steps along the Massachusetts coastline, observing her world with such grace and empathy. I came home and wrote this song and it is one of my all-time favorites because I know it is not just mine. It comes from thoughts and memories, from shared experience, from the wisdom of our poets and elders, and the imagination of the child inside of all of us. This video comes from footage I took two years ago in New Mexico with friends and family. This recording comes from the help of my dear friends in Austin, in particular Spencer Garland, who helped me record it in his home studio during the pandemic.