🎵 March 2025

Three months down, nine remain.

A lot of time left for us this year — enough to learn a new
language or write a novel. Enough time to carry a baby full term.

Ashland Springs Hotel 2019

📸 gary lundgren

Being mindful has become a cliche, I know, but I still love the intricacies of this practice.

Mostly, I love tracking my time, so I can be more intentional. Those first few beautiful hours in the morning? How do I make them count. What should I do with those forty-five minutes in the late afternoon after a long day at the office? Maybe I’ll read something or meditate or play disc golf. Maybe a long walk with new music or an audio book. If I’m lucky, maybe I’ll connect with a friend or loved one.

Time almost speeds up when we’re not paying close attention. Being mindful is a tool we can deploy more often than we realize — just merely acknowledging the hours rushing at us can be powerful. Doing this with real intention is an act of magic, because it slows down our perception of time.

Listening to music every day and curating these monthly playlists has been a daily practice of mindfulness. I love it so much, because I’m choosing to spend real time exploring new music.

This month brought along another beautiful batch of songs. Tracks that jumped out and surprised me. It’s like hiking new trails every week and discovering views I haven’t seen before. New songs that didn’t exist until now — and many from artists I didn’t know.

I hope you enjoy this one and continue to support the artists you love. Buy their records if you can and share their work with others. Go see their performances on stage and their films in the theater. Read their novels and their poetry. Frame and hang their images. Art is great medicine for these strange times we’re living in.

As always, thanks for reading and listening. If you find something new you dig, I always appreciate finding out what’s landing with you.

Find it here on Apple Music and Spotify.

Gary