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Sky Burton

Sky Burton

The deceiver tree is beautiful in its malevolence.

Chapter 6- The Sharp Edge of Reality

Sunday, February 6, 1994 Tom seemed in good spirits this morning as he cooked them breakfast, but his chatter was manic, too bright, too forced. Sara recognized the performance. She wondered if he was desperately trying to keep the conversation moving, steering it away from the weekend discoveries that had

How Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and Louis Tomlinson Speak the Same Language

How Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and Louis Tomlinson Speak the Same Language

What binds Cohen, Buckley, and Tomlinson is not genre or fame. It’s something quieter and more sacred. They stood apart, each in their own time, each in their own way. And in doing so, they created work that doesn’t just last, it lives.

Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and Louis Tomlinson

We Could’ve Been Something

Marianne’s name faded, the ink still brave: “Endless love, see you down the road.” The words glowed like a candle that refuses midnight.

Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and Louis Tomlinson

Some Songs Don’t End.

Her heart stung in that familiar way, as if someone she hadn’t met had once broken it on her behalf. Outside, the wind bent the trees. Inside, she rewound the tape—not ready for the silence that followed.

Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and Louis Tomlinson

They Called Him Difficult

She watched him from the back of the venue, where the lights didn’t reach, tears catching on her lashes as he sang a line she knew wasn’t for charts, but for them, the ones who had been bruised by believing too hard in the wrong people

Who was Stan Hall?

Chapter 5 - A Series of Approximations

I have never believed in the possibility of exactness. There are no straight lines in nature therefore only by a series of approximations do we perceive truth. — Stan Hall, 1976

Where to go in Costa Rica for laid back sun, fun, and surf.

Where the Roads Have No Names, Only Reputations

We stopped to ask for help more than once and were given arm-waving directions in Spanish with references like “go past the mango tree, then two houses down from where Tito’s uncle used to live.” Super helpful if you knew Tito. We did not.