brandi

I have been so obsessed with Brandi Carlile lately.
I made a pretty awesome mix CD that is on constant repeat in my Jeep and when she isn't crooning her blessed voice into my brain through GM supported speakers she is singing her lullabies in my head. While trekking through The Subway of Zion (I still need to finish that trip report) Brandi heralded Late Morning Lullabies, Have You Ever and The Story. Her cherubic voice kept up a constant stream of beatific melodies to enhance the experience of what was already an amazing walk. Geologic time periods slipped by while an angel teased me with visions of Sunday mornings spent tangled in flannel sheets with a guitar played just for me in a room set away from the world.
But the last few days have been different. Gone are the carefree melodies of an ever fleeting youth and left in their wake are memories of a place from which I was forcibly removed. The other occupant a mirage of distance and circumstance.
Somehow the carols of Ms. Carlile instantly return me to a bittersweet life that never was.
I need to find a new CD on which to obsess.