Thursday, June 26, 2025

Songs for a girl who needs to be submerged in water (Songs for frogs)

Water is medicine. Maybe. Definitely. My mom's first question is always whether I’m hydrated. 

You lay me down in green pastures; you lead me beside quiet waters. You restore my soul. 

My best friend in college used to throw her head back and groan, “I need to be by a body of water,” and drive us to the ocean in her Honda Civic, which had a cutout of Harry Styles dangling from the rearview mirror. Baptism, transformation, purity. Wash my spirit clean.


The Eternal Moonshine, Claudia Keep

Night's Impossible Burden, Brian Kershisnik

Blue & gold montipora

Wash Me Clean - k.d. lang

The Field (feat. the Durutti Column, Tariq Al-Sabir, Caroline Polachek & Daniel Caesar) - Blood Orange

re: "The Field"

Escape / Find The Melody - Junaco

Where Does It Go - Junaco

Do You Feel It - Slow Pulp

I Feel - The Sundays

Peace - Dave Bixby

Girl - Sam Wilkes, Dylan Day, Thom Gill, Craig Weinrib

When I Can Read My Titles Clear - Sam Wilkes, Craig Weinrib, Dylan Day

Music for indigo - Adrianne Lenker

Incomprehensible - Big Thief

The Bug Collector - Haley Heynderickx

It's Only Love That Gets You Through - Sade

Come Back As A Flower - Stevie Wonder

Water is not always enough. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. (Many Waters is my favorite book title, short of A Wrinkle In Time. Thank you, Madeleine L’Engle.)

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