seasonal playlist time

spring!

If you’ve been following you’ll know that I’ve been making seasonal playlists. And guess what. I’ve just started a new one.

I started making these playlists about a year ago, both as a way to keep track of what I’m listening to, to remind myself of all the music I love, and also as a way to notice patterns and see how what I listen to changes over time and comes back to the same places. I try to be consistent, but the only true consistency is the way everything cycles, ups and downs, high activity and low activity, exhaustion and energy.

I feel an enormous sense of freedom and relief, an immense gratitude, that I get to live my life the way that I do. That I get to write and read, make music, travel, have no routine, create my own routine any way I like. Go anywhere and do anything. But sometimes the way that the time passes can be unbearable - everything all at once and then nothing at all. Surrounded by people constantly and then suddenly completely alone. Making these playlists for myself has helped me to keep track of time and place. There are no rules to them except that they are retired every 3 months and that they can only be filled with things I’m listening to.

Hope you enjoy it if you like that kind of thing. Here’s some of my past ones too, listem on shuffle - they’re all amazing xx