There we were: sitting on the couch and enduring another month of isolation with the next movie in our queue, The NeverEnding Story. Secily was raised in a Mormon home and didn’t get to see many pop-culture movies growing up. Thus, she had never seen it. She talks a little bit about it in a recent interview with Anthony Pedilla (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYFbdpqnno4 ) for all who didn’t know about that side of Mormon culture. After the final credits rolled, the creative juices started to flow and all things that once had meaning started to resurface. Oh how easy it is to feel like Atreyu in the Swamp of Sorrow, or like the Knight in the Southern Oracle who doubts his worth. More than anyone, we felt like the Child-like Empress. Slowly, she had watched the world around her stripped away until all she had was a single grain of sand. It feels as small to look at in her hand as it would feel to hold in your own grasp. We went to bed that night remembering how easy it is to feel that small and stripped down. Then we reflected on what turned the movie around…not doing nothing. Sure, you can say it was a wish or hope, but The Nothing is the real villain in the film.
A few years back, we had been taken down to a single grain of sand. We stood in awe as darkness swallowed everything musical around us until we looked at one another and saw only our original music in the palm of our hand. Now, we feel a new “nothing” arising. Do we create more content? Will it just be another small blip on an over-engaged radar right now, with every musician in the world pushing virtual concerts and broadcast videos? Well, we decided that we can’t do nothing.
In truth, we had already been pretty busy before our little movie night. We’ve written two new songs in one month and we’ve revived some of our oldest gems. We awoke the next day and gave ourselves permission to start sharing the smaller bits of our creation. They are not nothing, and we think that letting them be cast into the light a little will help us build more and more creative momentum. What say you? Ready to hear more songs? Ready to share in life’s little inspirations? Us too.