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“Hart” is out now. May we all have someone to hold close while the predators circle. Apple: music.apple.com/us/album/har... Spotify: music.apple.com/us/album/har...

Grover sitting outdoors, playing guitar at a desk and singing into an Ear Trumpet Microphone. Viewed through a wood and chicken wire fence. hart - an adult male deer* A chicken wire fence is all that separates my backyard from the wilderness of the Sierra Nevada mountains. Last summer, a pack of coyotes moved in and the sounds of their hunting permeated the neighborhood daily. It was a chilling novelty, forcing our children to come to terms with realities of life and survival earlier than we might have wanted. One night after putting them to bed, my wife and I were sitting in our driveway with our dog and a bottle of wine when a coyote emerged from a neighbor‘s backyard and loped past us as though the neighborhood was his. For a summer, it was. We sat there a while longer, thinking about the dangers we keep just far enough out of mind to get by, wildlife and wildfire. Then we went inside, sobered but grateful to have each other as we face whatever the world wants to throw at us. *Wildlife experts will tell you coyotes have no shot at taking down a large buck, and I wouldn’t argue with them. The word choice reflects the epic battle taking place in our imaginations rather than the bleak reality that they’re more likely hunting a fawn or injured doe. And if people hear “heart” instead of its zoological homonym, that’s fine by me.
apr 25, 2025, 4:13 am • 0 1

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