For so many reasons but none greater than my love of a pot luck dinner, I was baptized into no less the five churches before the age of seventeen. Suffice to say, I’ve since wandered from those paths, but still have more occasion than most to sit and ponder biblical themes like blood atonement, which was much on my mind when I wrote this song (which also provides the working title for my new record).

Then it was just before cherry blossom time when the big wave hit Japan.

It made us stop and think. Yet again.