Jan. 17, 2024

One of the loveliest things about music – the kind of music that crawls into your heart and calls it home – is it’s timelessness. A song that resonates always sparkles like you just drove it off the lot.

That’s certainly true with tonight’s selection. I was stunned to discover that this year, Sarah Harmer’s All of Our Names album turns 20. (Which also means that my hopeless crush on her is nearly 25 years old.)

The album’s title is taken from a line in Dandelions In Bullet Holes, a song so profoundly beautiful, it alters my breathing every time I hear it. Lyrically, Harmer evokes imagery that manages to reach universal heights while also being intimate at an almost microscopic scale.

Listening to this song, I spend six minutes walking along rocky beaches shrouded in fog, sipping coffee at a tiny cafe on a rainy day, holding loved ones close, discovering the smell of flowers for the first time, dancing my babies to sleep in my arms, watching my students grow together, and on and on.

Some songs are just magic. This is one of them.

This call to arms means wrap them

Around the first person you see.