Breathe.

Down the Line
Jose Gonzalez
In Our Nature
Mute Records : 2007
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West Palm Beach
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Sings Greatest Palace Music
Drag City : 2004
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The Trader
The Beach Boys
Holland
Reprise : 1973
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Aynotchesh Yererfu
The Budos Band
The Budos Band
Daptone Records : 2005
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By the Time I get to Phoenix
Dorothy Ashby
Dorothy's Harp
Cadet [Japan] : 1969
[Listen] [out of print]

I'm in the wilderness again. You know, the metaphoric type, the sort of places we regress to when we need space and time to let us breathe. It's easy to forget how breathing works, because reflexes can get rusty. Yet, when we fall asleep each night, the motor takes over and we cruise through REM dreams on auto-pilot, thinking of the people we love, absurd situations, weird sounds, all with our chest rising and falling in lockstep.

Today, I need to consciously breathe, so breathe with me.