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Green Balloon (part 1)
the story of a song
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Jessica Smucker
How to Dream (part 1)
(sneak peak! new single-in-progress)
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Jessica Smucker
July 2023
Skin to Skin
a poem (draft of poem)
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Jessica Smucker
March 2023
If you fly through Dallas
(you might never make it home)
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Jessica Smucker
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February 2023
a marriage in haikus
(poem)
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Jessica Smucker
January 2023
January is a beautiful word
Existential reflections from the life-giving dead of winter
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Jessica Smucker
New year, new song
Watch now (4 mins) | new reflections on how to keep beginning as the world keeps spinning towards apocalypse
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Jessica Smucker
July 2022
War of Attrition (sneak preview)
New single releases everywhere August 19; paid subscribers, listen here now!
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Jessica Smucker
June 2022
The Beautiful (new song demo)
a song of mourning, hope, and complicated love for a broken nation
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Jessica Smucker
Busy Making a F&%ing Difference
How so much of writing happens in the not-writing
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Jessica Smucker
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February 2022
A tale of two Phoenixes
Listen now (2 mins) | how a produced song interacts with its imperfect origin story
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Jessica Smucker
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War of Attrition
Listen now (5 mins) | (new song, early demo)
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Jessica Smucker
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