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The truth, though proofless, moves this mess of a crude vessel set through waves of calm and strife in strange and common life. Ways to stray, they fray the fabric of the floor below, bellowing hellos even louder than before, shouting through the door, deploring that we pour our attention (hearing, vision, and intention). Distraction detracts from the mission of invention. The frail frays, afraid to phrase or frame their reason for detention, never seem to mention the existence or location of a bucket of water and a mop. Persistent self-persuasion: fucking bother to stop studying the grime in the grooves of the grain. Improve on the brain; there’s courage to claim there.

Matt Halvorson is a musician, writer, activist and father living in Seattle. His song for this week is about the gift of depression.

Izaak Opatz is a mountain man from Montana who moved to Los Angeles a while back to keep writing and singing earnest, playful pop-country songs. His latest album, "Mariachi Static," is available now on Mama Bird Recording Co., and it is an absolute delight.