The song is about a recursive process of practicing and returning again and again. Through practice and concentration, time seems to slow down to the point where intentional action becomes easier and thus more natural. I think of the example…

w/ Simon Pettiford

w/ Bill "Mungo"

Vocals/Lyrics: Lisa Hawbaker Music and Mix: Garni

Garni: Music and Mix

Vocal stems used with permission Garni: Music and Mix

On Growing Old by John Masefield - an excerpt read by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1940, the year of Scott's death. Be with me, Beauty, for the fire is dying; My dog and I are old, too old for roving. Man, whose young passion sets the spindrift…