The Letter from Memory Story by Rescue Box

I had written letters back and forth with Jeff Armstrong in the late 1970's. I was in my early 20's. Although I look back all the time to my younger years, a lot of the details have drifted away, evaporated, not unlike the contrails behind a jet airplane going overhead. In its place sometimes are details that have morphed into tales. After Jeff passed on in January, his wife Andrea sent me the letters he had kept that I had written to him some forty-five years ago. They were in the same condition as when I had written them. I wish I could say the same for letters I had received over the years. There is something quite beautiful about finding a part of myself that I had misplaced. And to think that someone else had been keeping it safe.....Thank you Jeff Armstrong...I wrote this song about getting those letters in the mail after forty-five years.

For me music has been a constant companion for as long as I can remember. That companionship has not always been comforting. For all the years that I couldn't or wouldn't put the work in I still followed along and wanted to join in.

The process fills so many voids.It is the conversation with myself that I find so necessary. The loners log in a way.

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