I was sitting on a rickety stool at the Church (of Fun) Saturday night after my debut as a featured storyteller of BUSted listening to Veterans of Future Wars play. They opened with two new songs and I was blown away.

I sat there thinking about the time I was sitting on the floor waiting for Nashville Brothers to start and watching Robert Quijano's music video debut. I was there for the shooting of it, it was so beautiful, I wanted to cry both in the moment of being in the video and watching it.

Writing my stories and books, I have playlists I listen to, but the songs that inspire them the most are unrecorded and I only know because I experience them, I can remember how I feel in the moment, how the room smelled in the Church that night, how it felt to have Mateo slide up next to me on the floor so he laid on his belly his ass tucked under my knee.

I would love so much to share these songs with you in a playlist, but they are but a memory, so all I can do is offer you a story.