10 Things to write a song about

1. My son’s foot when he was born was about half the size of my finger. He weighed less than 3 lbs. He spent six weeks in the NICU.
2. Waking up in Adelaide, South Australia to magpies and lorikeets calling and I’d go have coffee on a picnic table and smell the ocean from my back porch.
3. Wanting to be a traveler, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, hobo who rides the rails or lives out of a van.
4. The moment my heart broke, when I finally realized she’d never love me in the way I needed her to love me.
5. The feeling of riding a bike through the morning Irish mist on the Aran Island of Inshimore.
6. The way my wife will never see how beautiful she truly is.
7. Being in a relationship where you’re no good for one another, but you just can’t quit each other.
8. The weight of my friend’s casket when I was 17.
9. The morning I walked through the empty streets and closes of Edinburgh, Scotland. Gathering flowers in Princes Street Gardens, and taking the tram to meet my one true love.
10. How time stops when driving out to Edisto Island, South Carolina and how every person should find a place where time doesn’t exist.

M.D. Berry