“I’m a drunken-hearted man.”

I had an ear infection for a month and a half. That meant no music. It drove me a little crazy.

Now there’s a whole audio-verse awaiting my exploration. All my old songs sound new. I’m an explorer in my tinny virtual collection of hip-hop, punk, blues, jazz, and trip-hop. A friend who introduces me to obscure indy-pop, softens the tones. He introduces levity, and haunting a-melodic expanses.

I can now again get lost while coding at work. The mind can drift and work still gets done.

Tonight I will run with the crowd. I will enjoy the friends I have slowly found over the years. Tonight I remember why I am so intense, and why I put so much effort in.

Life exhales what life you breathe into it.