So beautiful and heartfelt, Zippy. Thank you for being brave enough to open up and share this song and the emotions which led you to craft it. So many of us creatives wrestle with demons, and so many of us appear to be doing so like never before right now. Deep work is being done. We have to trust that we can bear it and survive it - that we can transmute this pain into a new way of being with each other, like modern-day alchemists. The dark and the light within us are two sides of the same coin, engaged in a dance of apparent duality. We are shadow boxing with our selves - with the version of us with which the World has presented us. BUT WE ARE NOT THAT. We are freedom, we are LIFE, we are waking from our tortured dreams. These sleepy moments where we're not sure if we're still dreaming will pass if we keep on shaking ourselves gently but firmly, treating ourselves with compassion, reminding ourselves to clear the sleep from our eyes and the confused state from our minds. We are the All and the Everything. We are the Nothing, too. We surface from the void and are tormented by the search for meaning, dogged by the illusions with which society (the World) puts into us.

Ask any other life form on this planet. Ask the stars, the trees, the birds, your heart. Life has no meaning, other than that which we ascribe to it. Life has no purpose - it just wants to be lived! How will we live? That is the question. And with your beautiful voice, your truest longings so vulnerably shared, you are LIVING, vibrantly. Keep giving expression to the life inside of you, in your own unique and wonderful way, Zippy! One breath at a time, my friend. With love, Jay <3