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I write from the middle of things. Not from the clean beginning, not from the triumphant end, but from the ache of becoming. From the quiet after the earthquake. From the strange, sacred business of learning how to live again after the worst has happened.

My name is Rosi. I’m a singer/songwriter, I’m a person who once believed I had more time. Now I write to stay present with what remains. Oh yes, I am also newly widowed. Which I still can’t get used to saying.

This planet, Planet Melancholia, is where all that lives. It’s not always a sad place. Just a true one.

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