I’m always trying to get better even at the things I do really exceptionally so somewhere I found this songwriting exercise and completed it in my Google docs which is why I still have it. I thought you all would like to see it. It’s interesting to see my process even for me looking back.

• What are you standing or sitting on?
• What do you smell?
• What do you taste?
• What around you is moving?
• What do you hear?
• What clothes, jewelry, and hairdo are you wearing?
• What are you feeling?

Barefoot on moss
Woody, earthen scents
The magic in the air
The brownies scurrying to hide
Chirps of birds in the trees and the wind in the branches
Tie-dyed Grateful Dead T-shirt and shorts, hair in a man bun ankh pendant
The magic of the moment

I wander into the forest barefoot in a tie-dyed T-shirt and cutoff jeans—the moss between my toes. Woody, earthen scents fill my nostrils as I hear the Brownies scurrying to hide. Birds chirp in the trees as the wind rushes through the canopy. I take the hairband off my wrist and wrap my shoulder-length brown hair into a bun. I experience the magic of the moment.