holding steady.™

song of the day (via a new playlist alert)

to get through what can be a hellish workday, i created a working playlist based upon my top-rated songs from the following artists:

• alicia keys
• band of horses
• coconut records
• death cab for cutie
• hot chip
• jack johnson
• jenny lewis
• john mayer (for you, simon)
• lykke li
• metric
• mgmt
• moby
• modest mouse
• radiohead
• rilo kiley
• the roots
• ryan adams
• sam sparro
• stars
• tegan and sara
• the whitest boy alive

the result is nearly 600 songs, or over a day and a half of music that i happen to adore.

the favorite from today: sam sparro, “too many questions“

sam sparro

an early morning thought + sotd

i was taking out the garbage this morning (and let me tell you, daylights savings is still messing with me, because it feels like 5am) and i saw the strangest thing. there was a bird walking around in my driveway. it struck me as aimless, with nowhere to go. it would walk six or seven steps (really, hops) and then fly for about a foot. this could have had something to do with the rain, but it was just odd to watch. at some point, it turned its head and saw me, and started taking bigger hops and longer flights. then i couldn’t see it anymore (i’m almost sure it ran into the big tree in my neighbor’s yard).

but the broader point is: that little bird needed a push. i was his push, but he needed an impetus to do more and to be more. i feel a lot like that little bird these days…

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