Hello, my Pumpkin Fluff. 🎃☁️ This song is unabashed, unrequited love. A connection that severs before it can grow. The heartbreak of a story that ends as soon as it begins. The dashed expectations of love blossoming and withering almost simultaneously. I feel this and I see this in so many different stories now. Romantic connections, dreams or friendships not meant to be, the tragedy of miscarriage and birth stories that end lives, hopes, and dreams, the loss of precious pets, a deep yearning for something you know is possible but feels just out of reach. The universal human conditions of love and loss connect us all together. We can hold each other closer, love a little harder, communicate more authentically, and strive every day to soften deeper into a life of kindness, warmth, and gratitude.

Pumpkin Fluff became a song for my band Bella Swank in 2005. My co-writer, Juston Botello, sent me this guitar part, and I immediately felt the tender heartstrings of what it could be, infusing it with my own personal feelings and experiences. This version of the song was recorded solo with studio musicians in Provo, Utah.