I’m in Santa Barbara, just past halfway through my “Human Yoyo Tour,” as I’ve started calling it. I do seem to bounce down and up the coast a lot: Seattle sends the cylinder slinging south till the string is outstretched in SoCal and snaps back. Of course, we could just as easily flip our maps over, and then I’d need a whole new metaphor.

As you may have gathered from recent posts, I’m more or less diving headfirst into this new singer-songwriter thing. I’ve played a few shows and have received encouraging feedback from lots of listeners. Today is a big next step: I’m launching my new website, and releasing two new videos! 

Normally when I have a show coming up I post the details and add an enthusiastic sentence fragment with a bunch of exclamation points. But this one’s different. I hope you’ll permit me to go lengthy and personal on you.

What had happened? Three of the strangest and most beautiful days of my life. A series of experiences I’ll be fondly and disbelievingly revisiting for years to come. A new friendship that has the potential to be lifelong.

Still, I couldn’t shake the nagging feeling of a loose end.