After a string of wonderful but sometimes perplexing music experiences, I'm led to ponder the meaning of music to people nowadays. Sometimes I think that music used to mean more to people than it does now. Americans have a musical heritage, but if it's not too many golden oldies in a loop sequence at the convenience store, than it's those who rehash the music that they grew up with, as if there has not been anything created since. I know how good the music was in the 60s and 70s, I was there. I was a kid, but I heard it everywhere, especially through my older sisters.
I now write music in response to everything and everyone around me. Those people like me are, in real and present time, in good or bad times, in the practice of keeping our lives and stories breathing, now. This is "us." We are our own developing heritage now. Current life and people are worth singing about.