I have been listening to Neil Young's new release of 1973 songs, "Hitchhiker". Everything he wrote is at the heart of every mixtape that might define who I am. Then Walter Becker of Steely Dan had to die. One by one all of the signals behind these mixtapes is winking out. When Young dies, I suppose it is my time to leave this hollowed out past behind for...what? Is music the motive force that through the green fuse drives the flower? It feels like it this morning. #smallstories