Enter The Green

Beneath an endless sea of leaves/This is how I fall in love with you.

I think about people who are drawn to certain habitats, the shore or the desert, the mountains or rivers. They may have been raised in cities or towns or on farms but, after visiting one of these ecosystems, they realize that it’s where they belong.

I’m naturally a forest dweller. A compact man, I was running the trails of Forest Park in Queens several summers ago, and was really in my element. Or in The Element. Once you turn off the main road that runs through the park you can get immediately swallowed by the woods. Union Turnpike is only a few hundred feet away but you might as well be in the deepest part of Maine or British Columbia. The tree branches hung low over the trail as I ran, my dog, Lola, pulling ahead on her lead. I ducked my head a little here, leaned to the left there, but the whole time I moved through along forest path without disturbing a leaf. I was the perfect height, the perfect build to run those paths, dancing over roots and branches, jumping up onto fallen logs to race along them like those balance beams we had in gym class. I was perfectly suited to the wooded environment. I was a blood cell in the ancient artery. I was a byte of information blasting along the woods' axons. I was a flitting glimpse of life, a blinked eye in the history of these trees.

I’m going to be performing a livestream concert on Facebook to celebrate the release of ‘Something Living In The Green’, a song of the forest, on May 2nd at Studio Azarov… RSVP Here

A portion of all donations will be shared with https://www.savetheredwoods.org/

See you there!

Beneath the roots, beneath the trees/This is how I fall in love with you