Eight years ago today I was with many of my favorite people celebrating the life of one of the most exceptional humans I've ever known, Sarah Anderson Nichols. If you knew her, well then you know why I still miss her so darned much.

I grew up around Sarah, so it wasn’t til later that I discovered what a rare one she was! Deeply profound and really the very silliest, I mean how is one person so wise and powerful and irreverent all at once?! She knocked it out of the park, gave me something to shoot for. Joy-filled and witty and spacious and subtle and more than anything, kind.

I wrote this song for her some years ago, imagining us parked out on her old porch together. It’s just a rough track- a practice tape, although that doesn’t stop Daniel Nygaard Madsen and Jason Stone from sounding amazing on it! I wanted to share it with you today as I sit here missing her, and thinking about the fantastic gift it was to sit by the fire of her life. I’m warmed by it even now.