No Safe Place Child

“Hey Katie! Where have you been? It’s been over a month since you’ve posted!”

Well friends, I’ve been going through a super fun depression period and things got super dark for a while there. Don’t wanna go into details, and I’m sure not many of you care anyway. Point is, I’m better than I was, and I’ll be back to posting semi-regularly, whenever I find updates from the band.

“I hate that I have to introduce this song every night. And I hate that we had to write it.”

Bit of a talk about my recently done tattoo. Why I got this line, and why I put it where I did.

So. Death has always been a hard thing for me. I mean, it’s hard for everyone. But I’ve been to a lot of funerals in my life and I’ve always always always struggled after them. They always just took everything from me, and then I never really got over losing that person.

My grandma died in march. It was hard for my family, especially my father, who was now orphaned. So my brothers and I came to an agreement: we had to keep my father’s spirits up. I’ve always been an empathetic person, so I thought we were gonna be the Comfort Squad™. But we went with a unique angle- laughter. We joked, we teased, we told good stories… and then something amazing happened: the funeral and days following shifted from days of sorrow to ones of happiness. It still hurt, but it was lessened greatly by the approach we took.

I look back on those days and smile, rather than mourn. I have an entirely new outlook on death and on life, and I think Dance in the Graveyards is a song that perfectly reflects that idea. It helps that my grandmother’s last words were, and I kid you not, about getting to heaven to dance with her husband again. So the song brings me so much joy now in such a personal way. That’s why I got the lines tattooed on me.

The thigh placement? Simple. I hate my thighs so so so much. I’ve hated them since I was old enough to have a sense of body image. But now I can look at a despised part of my body and feel happiness because I love my tattoo so much. It’s hard to hate a place that has something so wonderful there.

A Long and Happy Life Official Music Video!!

Photo by Marc Millman Photography; from Delta Rae’s performance in New York City on May 22nd, 2017