so glad you came

elsa and i were on a songwriting retreat on gotland. we’d just walked the shoreline at holmhällar where thousands of tiny baby mussels had washed up on the beach. something about that image cracked us both open. we sat down and realized we shared the same grief. involuntary childlessness. we’d never said it out loud to each other before. we decided, quietly and a little nervously, to open that box together. what came out was dandelion. a song about the child who never came. the life you could se