white wine in the sun. (Patreon)

hello loves.

i’m sorry i havent written much about life lately.

i’ve mostly just been spending time with ash. one of the best podcasts episodes of the lot is coming out this week and i wanted to point you all to a song, if you have never heard it before. it’s by one of my favorite contemporary songwriters, tim minchin.

it’s called “white wine in the sun”.

watch/listen here:

https://youtu.be/_CeY0VdhXK8

these lyrics, right now.

“I'm looking forward to Christmas

Though I'm not expecting a visit from Jesus

I'll be seeing my dad

My brother and sisters, my gran and my mum

They'll be drinking white wine in the sun

I'll be seeing my dad

My sisters and brother, my gran and my mum

They'll be drinking white wine in the sun...”

.....

here i am. in the white wine summer land that he sings about.

without family.

in a moment where so many cannot gather with their loved ones, the incoming holidays are like a freight train of emotional confrontation as we think, deeply, about what it all means, how we gather, when, why...

it’s incredibly hard right now, for everyone i know.

if you’ve never heard the song before, please listen. please also make sure you’re subscribed to the “art of asking everything” podcast. i’ll obviously post here too when it goes up.

and i hope it takes you down a tim minchin youtube wormhole, because all of his songs are pretty brilliant.

tim was the last podcast guest i had in the Before Times, and listening back to the episode is haunting. you’ll understand why when you hear it.

i love you all.

i’m going to go back to being a mom.

it’s our weekly mama-ash movie night.

i’m showing him “edward scissorhands”.

i may cry a couple times.

love

a