June 9 - Scavenger Babies

It's never not going to be a good time when you have a rolling guitar, John in trembling voice, and a list of things to do. A good John List Song feels like a properly conducted ritual. These are the things that make you good or pure or proper or maybe just will reduce the feeling of dread in your heart for five minutes.

This is both an odd song and a perfectly sensible song to drop in Sunset Tree Month. This is how you keep it together afterwards. This is how you stay as the person you became. This is how you keep growing. The John who wrote this was not the John who went through what the Sunset Tree is about, but nor is he yet the John who could write the Sunset Tree. We're shaped by what came before, and that's not an excuse. We shape what is to come, and that's not an excuse either. We become what we make of ourselves, so do it right however you do it.