grief blog – setting
The story takes place in Braintree, Massachusetts. Yes, it’s a real town in Massachusetts, not made up. The locations I mention in the story are actual places I have visited in person. The T-Train is an actual transportation system and part of the MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority).
grief blog – the story
The story aligns with my music. I’m writing a true story about my trip to Braintree, Massachusetts, for my Grampy’s funeral. All the characters in the story are real people—my family—the crazy family I loved, even though I changed the main character’s name to Hamlet Wolf Noir from my actual name. Some monologues reveal my […]
grief blog – Living My Life as I want to
The song is about how I want to live my life by having adventures, being myself, and not letting anyone tell me how to live. It talks about how much fun I had in Fenway Park and Fenway Hall in Braintree, Massachusetts. Then it talks about the different experiences I had in Fort Lauderdale and […]
Grief Blog- The T-Train
This song is about the two times I rode the T-Train. It reflects my observations on the T-Train and the characters I encountered. Originally, it was a two-part song, but I decided to combine it into one. The chorus expresses how I felt because I really did feel like I was in Shameless. I wrote […]
grief blog- raining at the funeral
This song recounts my experience at my Grampy’s funeral on a cold, rainy day. While at the funeral home, my thoughts were on death, the afterlife, and my own mortality. Then I realized this was my second visit there. When we arrived at the church, I remember feeling like I’d already been there three times. […]
Blog forty one: the hero’s journey: Freedom to live
It is the stage where the hero has found balance between their external and internal worlds. They no longer fear death. They got their happy ending after all they had suffered.
grief blog- hanging out with family
The song is about hanging out with family and how families like to tease each other. How you talk about the past, listening to stories, having fun, and of course, eating. I wrote this song while I was on my way to Fort Lauderdale.
Blog Forty: the hero’s journey: master of two worlds
The hero had completed the journey and could go between the two worlds with no difficulty. The hero is the master of the domestic, internal, the alien, and the external.
grief blog three: endless cycle
I wrote a song called Endless Cycle. The song is about emotions that whip you back and forth during the grieving process. I used weather phenomena to describe how I feel. I wrote this song while I was on the road to Braintree, Massachusetts, for my Grampy’s funeral on May 5th, which is Cinco de […]