Day 48 - Quiet Your Mind / Loving You Easy (Zac Brown Band)

Just when you thought you knew me, I throw a wrench into your face and destroy your confidence by posting about a Country band! But since I discovered the Zac Brown Band early last year during the pandemic, I realized how special and amazing their music is. I haven’t really delved too deeply into their entire catalog, but there is one very special song that has come to mean a lot to me and my soul. Quiet Your Mind. This is a blend of masterful lyrics, perfect harmonies, fiddles blazing with comforting charm and a stance that insists you heed the words as you actually quiet your mind and listen: This song will always bring me back to focusing on finding peace in the upheaval and uncertainty of 2020, when it appeared the world might actually end in my lifetime. I recall vividly sitting, alone, by the fire pit at Lukan’s, just before the dinner bell while the young ones were playing ball and the older ones were having disco time, I played this song on repeat (as I am inclined to do) and looked up at the sky, the perfectly blue sky. I allowed this song to mesmerize me into believing that the end is not near and that there’s still so much life to be lived.