I've figured out the meaning of life... it's a series of isolated incidents that sometimes mean everything in the moment but only leave behind a reflection. Sometimes these reflections are low lit lights that sparkle and fade in a pale shimmer. Sometimes these reflections are a dull ache left behind from a tragic heartbreak or stiff shot of reality. The reflections glean a story and sometimes they are emotions but mostly they just end up stories that we tell ourselves before bedtime. And sometimes people come in our lives and they stitch together those isolated incidents into a small web so our new experiences have more meaning. They're plucked like chords on a beautiful harp and the plucks they resonate through the web, through the reflections and they become a song. And our lives become a series of songs strewn together to make a melody that's rich and full and diverse. And this album represents our lives and all the isolated periods of things we went through and events we experienced. It represents all the pleasure and all the pain and all the people woven into that beautiful, beautiful mess of our life. And somewhere in there there's God and he takes all of our songs and he plays them together and we become the soundtrack to his creation... his creation and his restoration and all that is good and holy and blameless and WE are his inspiration and THAT is the meaning of life.