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when i think about the universe being infinite, the concept of no beginning and no end, i cannot fathom it. i get frustrated. i try to rationalize, to wrap my mind around it, but i just can’t. it’s a strange thing, being aware of your inability to understand something. one year ago, i faced this struggle once again in the loss of my nana.
i have experienced a lot of loss in my life. i have also experienced a lot of love. a great deal of it came from her. ruth was a light. a brilliance you couldn’t ignore. sunlight glaring off of every shiny surface, every windowpane, sparkling in the eyes of anyone she spoke to. she was loud and exuberant and unapologetically alive. she laughed at everything. she cried, not because she was sad, but because she thought life was so beautiful. she prayed for every animal she saw. she wept for inanimate objects. she put life into everything.
i will never get used to living without her. it’s been a full year today, and i am still brought to my knees some days crying, shaking, screaming, because i can’t cope with her being gone. i am not trying to be melodramatic or to overindulge in my own grief; i am trying to be honest. it is not easy to lose somebody who cared for you from the moment you were born. every single step i have taken since i lost her has been heavier. every single day has been darker.
f scott fitzgerald said “there are all kinds of love in this world, but never the same love twice.”
there will never be another like her, but i wouldn’t want there to be. there will be more love in my life, taking on different forms, surrounding me and transforming me. but never the same love again.
it has been one year, and i am still heartbroken. i am still shattered. i wrote and recorded this song a few weeks after her death as a private gift for my mother — i never planned to release it, but it feels right today. i want to honour her. to remind the world how her soul still shines in every corner. every window. every piece of sky.
thank you for listening, as always. i love you.
written by ruby mckinnon
produced by ruby mckinnon and joshua kaiser
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