between crack and thunder

on grief, healing and the songs we hear in our dreams

When I was sixteen, my favourite band was Manchester-based indie rock group, James: their iconic logo a wilted daisy, their lead singer charismatic, curly-haired Tim Booth, and their best song (I thought) ‘Sometimes’—which is about love, but also about a boy being struck by lightning. In the song’s music video, the band play their instruments standing …