On day while hiking, I came across an abandoned mental institute. This place and its history haunted me for weeks, and one day, I sat down at the piano, and this song just poured out of me. This song is first about the people who might have lived in that building, but 2^nd and more important, it is about understanding differences. It is a prayer that we might all learn to be kind.

I was at an artist residency in Nebraska a few years ago. I walked past an old dive bar, and watched the people inside. I desperately wanted to go in and feel like I was part of that community. However, in that moment I realized that I no longer belonged in this place I had so long thought of as “home”.

This song explores that pull of nostalgia versus the choices we make in our lives, and ultimately the ability to find “home” within ourselves.