Change

Everything happens so much.

These pieces are inspired by walking through seasons, transitions, and changes. Both stark and gradual. Through it all, it's never all one thing. It's never one simple feeling. It's a million moments of colorful variety and textures simultaneously grabbing for attention. It's heartbreak, joy, disappointment, longing, freedom, monotony, fear, peace, a pit in your stomach, and a butterfly the next. It's a wildly uncomfortable rollercoaster that we can't seem to get off of. How beautiful is this mixed bag of everything all the time.

Everything happens so much. Everything changes so much.

Paired with the song “Change” by Big Thief.

“Change, like the wind
Like the water, like skin
Change, like the sky
Like the leaves, like a butterfly

Would you live forever, never die
While everything around passes?
Would you smile forever, never cry
While everything you know passes?

Death, like a door
To a place we've never been before
Death, like space
The deep sea, a suitcase

Would you stare forever at the sun
Never watch the moon rising?
Would you walk forever in the light
To never learn the secret of the quiet night?

Still, like a stone
Like a hill, like home
Still, what I find
Is you are always on my mind

Could I feel happy for you
When I hear you talk with her like we used to?
Could I set everything free
When I watch you holding her the way you once held me?

Change, like the sky
Like the leaves, like a butterfly
Death, like a door
To a place we've never been before

Would you live forever, never die
While everything around passes?
Would you smile forever, never cry?”

-Big Thief