March 18

Little sweetheart, today is a very hard day. I think many of them are. And certainly these ten from the 8th to the 18th each year.

I’ve come to call this day your Ascension Day. I think that’s the best way to think of it. And the band always doers something special on this day and on your birthday each year. Today, we’re releasing a special digital-only single. It’s my new arrangement of an old Scottish hymn (with some lyrics - about you, of course - too) and in our signature dreampop sound. It’s called “Watchers and Holy Ones”. The cover is below.

So, I’m glad we’re doing this today but it’s still a very hard day. A hard day to do very much of anything else. And I have to let myself do nothing and take it easy and just rest and sleep and pray and think of you and have your pictures and your presence around me. I sent some flowers - a pretty blooming Azalea plant - to your folks house for you and for them.

Mostly I’m just going to be nice and quiet today. And know there’s a reason it’s so hard and that’s okay. Because if I just quiet myself, I will be able to hear you in all the ways you try your best to let me know you are there, closer than I can imagine. And that one day, one day very soon, I may come to you or perhaps you to me (that’s better isn’t it, you finding me, just like before, just like always?) and that the Ascension will be complete because I will be with you again and forever and being with you is what completes me and this little life of mine. Isn’t that so, my sweetheart? Love you forever.