Music that dwells, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Teresa — The following essay was written as an Artist Statement for a Harvard Divinity School final project mentored by Professor Stephanie Paulsell in December 2021. “Wet Not Dry” now serves as the prelude to Idgy Dean’s full-length record, A Chronicle of Lightning Bolts. Dedicated to all the Daughters I will never…

No lovers, no drugs. No lovers, no drugs. And it’s painful not to touch, yeah it’s painful not to touch. Corona, your crush. Corona, too much. And it’s painful not to touch, yeah it’s painful not to touch. I went to the mountain to be. I wanted her, she…

By Lindsay Sanwald Composed on October 18th, 2020 for “Climate of Unknowing,” a Harvard Divinity School class taught by Terry Tempest Williams & Dr. Diane Moore. It’s hard being a time traveler. Everyone calls me First Generation. It’s an odd name, considering all the others who came before me. My…

By Lindsay Sanwald An early draft of a larger endeavor, about my past, this present, our future… The day I cremated my father, I rode the front row of the Cyclone. This is not a metaphor. After witnessing him burn from my living room couch, I got on the F…

A Harvard Divinity School homework assignment for a class taught by Terry Tempest Williams: “Visit the Museum of Natural History. Find an object. Tell a story about beauty and brokenness.” Written on 0 2 / 0 2 / 2 0 2 0 I had a heaven hangover as I wandered…

By Idgy Dean — Making songs and making drinks follow the same mechanics — it’s dealing with spirits, gathering people in nocturnal seance, hands on the table, hands in automatic action, playing perfect ratios and percussive sounds; din of voices, dens of darkness, most memorable loss of memory, that place we go to fall…