I'd call it: Sacred Things

the sacred tree

We have a sacred tree--a pinon pine and aspen growing intertwined from a common place.  The former owner of our home used to pile unusual rocks around the base (such as fossils and geodes and petrified wood).  We've continued the tradition.  Today, while hiking up to the tree with a gift-stone in hand, I had an Evanescence song playing in my head.  I began reflecting on string theory, which in a nutshell is: everything in the universe is made of unbelievably small, sweetly vibrating 'strings'.

I've always thought of music as the language of our souls--it deepens the emotional level of any experience-even hiking.  It's a scientific idea that, for me anyway, might explain why music is primal to us all.

Music's ability to speak to the sacred places within us is one of the healing concepts used in Painted Boots.  Music is Kyle's escape from his reality.  Aspen hums the theme song from Close Encounters as a way of connecting to her mother.


Painted Boots is on tour!  September 2 stops:  Rusty's Reading and Between the Lines