Can i be an angel in your life? Simply by my presence Outlast the everlasting And be a blessing Unknowingly not alone The collective As my awareness stares off into space I am present and prepared To be there, wide awake May we find the grace To be guided by our eyes And witness the miraculous As it is happening I can imagine all the paths That led me here today And take my time to bask in the present Still looking for evidence of what happened Explaining to the future How to be Here Now I am surrounded by the sound of traffic The people have gathered in masses And i am Unknowingly not alone still Even though i feel unknown How do i show myself to my soul To be seen as i am To be complete To be whole To find my way home at last To the place where i dont have to ask who am i to you I know who i am Part angel part stranger Creating a conversation Changing the mind on paper Untangling the thoughts watching the time .dot.dot.dot Being thankful for the patience it takes to create Here Now Nonstop Regenerate the strength If feel your heart break rebuild your faith stronger And paint a picture of your pain Then watch the water colors Wash away In the rain I am here today to say this As i coexist in this worldview with all of you The way that you live Is the gift So Open it up And live your truth These are my words May i be a vessel of unlimited kindness for all of humankind reigniting the light in the eyes of the allknowing boundless love as i witness the miraculous continuously simultaneously and instantly forever instilling this divine protection upon my path and surrounding those i love with the same loving protection until everyone and everything is blessed to be seen with this unconditional love and this unlimited kindness for all of humankind that reignites the light in the eyes of the allknowing boundless love to be seen as an angel in your lifes presence

Beatboxing 101 was a favorite for so many last year. A space for us to try something new and step out of our comfort zone! Come let loose and learn a bit about beatboxing! Closing the space with an epic freestyle cypher open to the community. @thamammoth hold this container, fun, free and lively! See you soon!!

Today is my Dad's Birthday! I decided to make him a song and add it as a bonus track to my new project dedicated to my age of (shipley) The song is called... WALKING IN THE WOODS WITH MY DAD

Day 46 is here for the final day of this video challenge for ALL my ages. Today's song is called... LOVE YOU WITH ALL MY HEART This a phrase that Connor would say often when he would be reading his book and he would just say it out of the blue. Fast forward to last year on the island and im sitting by a fire with my friends at my favorite beach, at the exact place where i found a 20 dollar bill floating in the ocean a decade before, when i had no money to my name. I said that phrase by the fire, "I Love You With All My Heart" and instantly a giant wave came close to our fire and greeted us. As I've been undergoing this video series, ive also been dealing with a relationship shift the whole time and through that, i realized that even though, the relationship has changed, i can still love her the same as i always have. I LOVE YOU WITH ALL MY HEART I realized this is how i love. This is my nature. This is my story. It is a story of love. This is my love story. I love you with all my heart. There is much more i want to say, but i want to just embrace the finish line today and enjoy this moment. Thank you all for taking the time in your life to share some moments with me. Im humbled and honored to have so many kind friends in my corner. I am full of love and i have arrived at the finish line. We can celebrate now LOVE YOU WITH ALL MY HEART Burnell Washburn on the beat

Day 45 has arrived for age 44 and on... Before we get too excited and celebrate, this is actually the second to last song. There will be one more song tomorrow that i wrote just yesterday to summarize my experience with this project and what ive learned during this process. After tomorrow, then we can fully celebrate. Today's song is called... 'TIL THE DAYS ARE GONE I feel like taking a break from my life story today to take in this last little moment and take it easy. This year has been quite the transformation already for me. Im feeling wide open and ready for another leap of faith even though I don't know whats next, as much of what i was planning.for has changed. Im open to the great unknown and for the divine to guide my way This project has been a dream come true and its almost done. One more day to go. Ive been saving this song the whole time and i hope you enjoy it as much as i do. Its another one of my favorites. Much love for today and everyday... 'TIL THE DAYS ARE GONE Burnell Washburn on the beat

Day 44 has arrived for age 43! Today's song is called... SEE YOU SHINE i turned 43 on Thanksgiving day with my family singing to me at my childhood home. I released an album that day for the first time in a long time and they surrounded me with so much love and support and surprised me by playing the first song. (The album is called Happy Birthday Natey Nate and its on my bandcamp) I was so full of hope and wonder at this time, basking in new love, about to fly to kauai again for the first time in 8 years to see Bee after we had been forging our relationship through long conversations on the phone. She also manifested a place to live on the exact farm i had always dreamed about living at! It felt too good to be true with all the magical synchronicities. It was another dream come true. I thoroughly enjoyed surprising old friends with my island return. She loved seeing the looks on the faces of my friends as each person was usually extremely overjoyed to see me😆. We had some beautiful times of kinship and connection and we were surrounded by good friends throughout our stay. There was also turbulence outside of our relationship that caused problems and became a constant topic of conversation and it had an effect on our relationship. It wasn't all smooth sailing with Bee and I, but we never really had a proper fight and we were always able to reside in a place of deep love for each other and we could converse through any problem before it became bigger. We went through a whole relationship cycle during our island stay and landed in a place of deep love. Her heart is so good and pure and her sense of humor is so easy to love with her hilarious laugh. It was a joy to be with her during this year of my life. I always just wanted to... SEE YOU SHINE I also had a monumental experience hosting a freestyle circle to kick off Earth Vibe Festival where children and adults all had an opportunity to share their voices. I will also be hosting a freestyle circle to kick off this years Earth Vibe again. Its a family friendly event and it is simply amazing and affordable for a festival. Id love to see you there @burnellwashburn on the beat

Day 43 has arrived for age 42. Today's song is called... SWEETGRASS My 42 year started out pretty rough as i could barely walk without tremendous pain as i dealt with mysterious issues so i dedicated my time to lots of self care and as the new year dawned in 2024 everything went into remission and i lived the rest of the year with clear skin again. I was living on the outskirts of st paul with my brother and enjoying catching up on old times with him. My relationship from the previous year never got real resolution and weighed heavy on me at the time. I had to let it go. I also switched my jobs up and started working for a different moving company. This would also be my last year of working my favorite job of all time at the snow tube hill😆 By the time the summer rolled around i was ready for something new. Ever since i first visited the Organic Compound , i had always dreamed of spending a season there. Its such a beautiful place in this world inhabited by some of the nicest folks you will ever meet. They have always been kind to creative people and artists and had taken on quite a few artists as stewards over the years. My dream came true that summer and i became a steward of that land as well, tending to the chickens and the hazelnuts and elderberries and the SWEETGRASS. This was one of the best summers of my life as i was able to decompress the last so many years. My creative fire was also reignited as i started working on making beats and songs on my looper and recording all the songs i had accumulated at the time. When the summer started out, i was optimistic about finding a new love. I had a moment with Wil where we preemptively declared this my summer of love....

Day 42 is here for age 41. Today's song is called... MOGWAI EYES This year of my life saw me living in the winter in my snowy music studio, still living my same life i had been living basically, go to work, kick it with connor time, be at home, shovel snow, play video games, write songs. One of the biggest blessings of this year of my life was hanging out with my older brother again. He had finally gotten out an abusive marriage and reconnecting with him after all those years felt like old times. We would meet up and play a randomized version of legend of zelda link to the past video game. Its like a giant puzzle every time and we would race to see who could beat the game first. He would usually kick my butt and roast me while he did it. He is quite possibly the best at teasing me in the world, constantly keeping me humble. 🤣 During the summer i jumped right into a new relationship that started out like a fairy tale. So much so that i abruptly moved out of the music studio and out of the town i had been living in for 6 years finally. The new relationship ended about as quickly as it started though and at the same time, my skin condition flared up in a scary new way. I could honestly barely walk. Ill spare the details. It might have been the lowest point of my life, to be honest. Fortunately i had a backup plan and got to spend even more time with my brother as i became his roommate on the outskirts of the twin cities. I would soon have another miracle healing and have one of the best years of my life but this year of my life would end in lots of uncertainty and confusion and pain. My brother really came through for me like an angel at this time in my life. I could never thank him enough. Its okay if things dont go how you expect. Sometimes you just need to take a breath. See the world new again through new eyes... MOGWAI EYES Burnell Washburn on the beat

Day 41 is here for age 40! Today's song is called... WAKING UP WITH THE RISING SUN I was pretty sedentary during this year of my life, just working a lot and spending lots time with Connor still. This would be the last year that we would all live together so i was soaking up those last precious moments of his childhood, knowing that things would never be quite the same again. My friend with the music studio was kind enough to let me spend the next couple of seasons as a roommate while I figured my life back out. I still spent lots my free time visiting and hanging out with Connor and kept my circle pretty small. I had to rebuild myself after feeling so broken down for those years. In my own time i still kept the dream alive but i also felt super detached from the world i was once so engrained in. I felt so disconnected and didnt really know how to plug myself back in. I feel like im still trying to figure out how to plug myself back in🤣 One day at a time Life really is here for us one day at a time and each day is a miracle. I give thanks for this down year of my life as i reflect back to see my light, dim but still a glimmer, and in that glimmer i can see, i never gave up hope. i am forever changed for the better for having these experiences bringing me here today with my heart full of love for this life experience. There is so much work to do in this lifetime, and a lot of that work is internal work. I have made a lot of mistakes and havent showed up in all the best ways all the time. What i have been noticing in myself, as i have undergone this process and released any expectations, is that my heart is overflowing with love and i am extremely grateful to be able to share my life experiences with you in this lifetime. Gotta get back to work. The work is never done. Today is a good day to be... WAKING UP WITH THE RISING SUN Burnell Washburn on the beat (Shout out to the Organic Compound ! I filmed this footage there and thought it worked well with this song haha. Much love family)

Day 40 is here for age 39! Ohhh yeaaah! Today's song is called... TAKE A LOOK AROUND When I turned 39 in nov of 2020 my skin problems went into remission for that year and this was the first time since i was 20 when i had completely clear skin. Its not something you think about if you have never had a skin problem, but when you have a skin problem, its all you can think about. I think my skin issues have been a reason why i find myself often hermiting. I send my love to everyone fighting an illness, invisible or otherwise. May we be free from the suffering and find the source of the healing. In the year of 2021, and during my years of living with Lisa and Connor i was working various jobs. I worked for an awesome moving company in Wisconsin called St Croix Movers and i was also the resident troll at the snow tube hill in the winter time at Trollhaugen. I spent all my time with Connor, and he did the virtual learning so i was often home all day on my days off. We went on lots more bike rides and played lots of video games(shout out to my cousin Paul Velleux for the xbox and introducing me to hollow knight haha) i was writing songs still but could also feel like my artistic career could be slipping away. My old roommate from Minneapolis crossed my path at the local grocery store and was a godsend when he had an extra space at his house in town for me to set up a music studio. I had just gotten a looper and had big plans. Just having a place to set up was monumental cuz i had started to feel boxed in, in the small house we were living in. We were basically living as roommates for a couple of years and officially broke up during this year. I was so engrained into being Connor's dad that i continued to stay there and live as roommates regardless and it was almost like nothing had changed. This was a strange year for the world as a whole living in those strange times and going from one turd of a leader to another turd. There was so much division and contention and most of it has continued to this day. We all cant agree on everything, but i think we all can agree that it is good to... TAKE A LOOK AROUND @burnellwashburn on the beat

Day 39 has arrived for age 38. Today's song is called... WHO INVENTED INTERVENTION? Age 38 was the year of my life when the pandemic dawned. I was already pretty isolated at this point in my life having withdrawn unintentionally as my skin issues were at their worst and my relationship was surrounded by brick walls. I still had Connor to keep me company and we were as tight as ever. When covid started, i finally taught him how to ride bike without training wheels, and we would bike all over town. I enjoyed those long bike rides. It was quite a contraversial time to experience for our world. My heart goes out to everyone that has lost someone close to them during this time. It was heartbreaking to watch Lisa lose her hero and not even be able to hug him or hold his hand. So much tragedy and confusion in the world and in the aftermath to this day. Im still optimistic that humanity can come together and recover and the truth will prevail and everything will come to the light. Perhaps we need a world wide intervention.... WHO INVENTED INTERVENTION? (If it isn't me, then who is setting the intention?) Burnell Washburn on the beat

Day 38 is here for age 37. Today's song is called... STAY THE DAY At age 37 I was in the middle phase of my relationship with Lisa Marie Borden. We had some really amazing adventures and good times to start our relationship but by this age, the magic had wore off and we were never able to recapture the spark. Despite this, i stuck around for some years and helped raise her son and was a father figure for him during these formative years of his life. Around this time, my lifelong skin issues became really severe and i basically disappeared from the world. Despite the fact that i was going through one of the most difficult ages of my life and experiencing 90percent of my body covered in skin rash, her son Connor never looked at me differently. He was always so kind to me at the most difficult moments of my life and ill never forget that. He only ever treated me with loving kindness. These song lyrics were originally written during these years as i was contemplating leaving that relationship and in turn leaving the dynamic of being there for him every day. I wrote this song to let him know that ill always be there for him. It was a complicated time in my life and i didn't know exactly what to do so i decided to... STAY THE DAY I see this song now as a reminder that we dont have to grow up so fast and we can stay the day in our own childhood as well. Burnell Washburn on the beat