It’s what I do when I’m trying to figure something out. Walking (and digging in the garden) has always helped me finish a song or figure out a relationship. Sometimes I don’t figure anything out, but at least I went for a walk. And there’s usually a dog with me on the walk, so, you know, bonus!

My new song “Before the Sun Goes Down” is now live. The turnaround goes, “It’s a 12-mile-walk before the sun goes down”. It’s about being free and not knowing what to do with that, and realizing that, while you might not know where you’re going, if you’re walking you ARE at least going SOMEWHERE.

Right now I’m almost 47 years old. It’s anathema to music to tout your age as you get older (!!), but I’m eager to shift that and share with pride. Wow–I’ve been here for almost 47 years! I’ve been walking for a while. I like my stride. I have NO idea where I’m going right now. But I love my family. I love my home. I love my music. I’m walking.

Please listen to the new tune and let me know what you think. If you want to share it around, I’d appreciate that too. Walk on. xox

Before The Sun Goes Down

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I don’t know why anyone thinks life should be linear. Nothing else in existence follows that rule. Is it arrogance? Or a desire to make clear sense of something? Seems to me that all things under and over the sun run cyclically: tides, bodies, stars, seasons, emotions. You get the drift.

So too with music. When I was young I thought my musical career would go like this: a few years of “paying dues”, touring, success, fame, wisdom, more success, touring, authority, and finally retiring when I didn’t have anything left to prove. It seems like the weirdest thing to me now. First of all nothing works like that, even when it looks like it does. Second of all, I thank God each and every day that my “line” didn’t go that way. I don’t think I would have had a very happy life. The way it HAS gone is a much longer post, but for now it’s imbued into 4 new songs I’m releasing into the wild. And the video below shows me explaining a bit of it too. Please watch and I’d love to hear about how things have gone with you too.

xox Sarah

Sarah Behind The Songs

The stories behind Sarah’s 4 upcoming singles, her connection to music and why she’s diving back in…

Coming to the end of two months in Miami, I found myself walking around a pool singing “I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know” over and over again. I must have been doing it for 10 minutes. My dog Teddy was waiting patiently for me to throw him a tennis ball. I didn’t. I went inside, set up a mic, and started to sing and snap, and the rest of it came out. Here we are. Almost 2018. Fires, hurricanes, deep divides, incredible support and love and abuse and war. We are constantly shattered and made whole again and again and again. And over and over, I find myself wondering what more I can do. Is it as simple as singing it out? I don’t know. But I keep trying. I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know You asked me for some proof A place without a wall I offered up my truth While all around us falls I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know You asked me how to clear The smoke from all the fires The water churning clear The truth from all the lies I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know But deep inside the heart A place without a buffer A place that’s torn apart A beautiful place to suffer I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know