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joshua0
(a mixtape)
on the possibility: 2025, as heard by Joshua.
I have spent much of this year in ways that are very different than I have
There is a lot out there in the world again. While I was putting this mix together, it felt like some of the adjacent songs were fighting with each other. I guess it makes sense: everyone is fighting with each other these days. But even songs that were right next to each other seemed to be at conflict with each other!
Oddly, the more I thought about it, the more the mix felt right. I have spent a lot of time over my life -- and, well, especially this year -- trying to hold two or more different thoughts in my head at once. I suspect I have gotten a little bit better at it (though I have to confess that is not saying a whole lot!). Maybe that's why I was okay with -- or had to be okay with, anyway -- all of the ways that these songs go together.
Some of these songs feel like they are offering questions. Some of them feel like they are offering answers. Sometimes the answers match the questions, sometimes they don't. Sometimes I agree with the answers, sometimes I don't. Sometimes the answers agree with the other answers, sometimes they don't.
I don't know who's right, if anyone even is any more right than anyone else. But that's the beauty of it -- you get to choose! Maybe none of them are right, or maybe one of them is right, or maybe they're all right. They are each for us to hold as much or as little of as we want.