For several years, this album has been finished - all that needed to be done was to record it. It technically began in May of 2015, and had many alterations, changes, additions, and subtractions along the way. It was my living, breathing musical journal of my coming-of-age, and as such, is and I anticipate will remain an important piece of myself.

From falling in love to having my heart broken, to breaking my own and others' hearts with no regard - leaving home for the first time, only to dropout of college and return with my tail tucked between my legs.

From getting diagnosed, undiagnosed, and rediagnosed. Fights with family and myself over the future, my future. Days, weeks without restful sleep. Anxiety, depression, panic attacks. Losing friends and track of time.

Finding it all worth it, moving past it, onward, upwards, forevermore.

I could not have done this without all of my friends and family. As I sat down to record this album, with just one USB condenser microphone, a mini-MIDI keyboard, Ableton, and a guitar, I found reflecting all throughout that though these albums represent some interior of myself, and are inherently inward-facing (for the most part), there is no turn of my life that I was not buoyed by love, companionship, and if nothing else, commiseration.

I'm excited to finally place this into the world, and excited to finally, as my mother has always wished, "write some happier songs".

Thank you for listening!