"I see the sky in my mother's eyes / arrives in her bruised hands / she's weak sometimes like a baby now / needs my help / so she can stand..."
The wet confessional tears and cold mirror stares of "in her bruised hands" by Austin, Texas math professor and singer songwriter Sean Keel, is at once as densely somber as it is light and airy like forgiveness itself. Keel's exquisitely real vocal countenance in it's quivering imperfections set against guitar picking on what I imagine is an old piece of wood. This personal song stripped bare of all pretence stings like an open wound and is so relatable that for most of us stirs up personal pain and passions. This is the thing, soon after birth we not only begin living but dying as well. The two existences are inextricably linked, they hold hands like squabbling brothers. It is something I never realized until loved ones passed and then it became very clear.
Listening to Keel's artful confessions that he shares this about, "written after a two week stay with my mom at a rehab hospital, she was recovering from a bad fall and head wound" punches me gently in the gut. As Keel reflects on in his poetry, there is a time when we become parents to our parents in a real way and while they will never be our children, their connection to us will in their third final act blossom into that kind of parental caring love until we finally, ultimately all have to let go and say goodbye forever.
Sean Keel, Austin Texas, math professor, singer songwriter, musician, poet, dense folk country, jazz, folk, indie folk, new album "ferals welcome", single "in her bruised hands",
"in her bruised hands" is from Keels 10 song album "ferals welcome"
-Robb Donker Curtius
https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tpW45daAHw9C2gRttmLEO
https://www.facebook.com/seankeelofficial
https://mailchi.mp/icea/sean-keel_a-dry-scary-blue-2618008
https://seankeel.bandcamp.com/
Two dinosaurs rusting at roughly the same rate. The left most is UT math professor Sean Keel. He writes lyric dense folk/country (and sometimes jazz) music both solo, and in collaboration with his family and friends band, Bill The Pony.
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https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tpW45daAHw9C2gRttmLEO
https://www.facebook.com/seankeelofficial
https://mailchi.mp/icea/sean-keel_a-dry-scary-blue-2618008
https://seankeel.bandcamp.com/
Two dinosaurs rusting at roughly the same rate. The left most is UT math professor Sean Keel. He writes lyric dense folk/country (and sometimes jazz) music both solo, and in collaboration with his family and friends band, Bill The Pony.
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