Somewhere between moving into the new house, changing jobs last year, and gutting the home office after the roof leak, I lost my copy of “I’m a Mountain” by the lovely Sarah Harmer. All I know is that after loading up all my albums into iTunes last May, it did not make it in.

And it’s been bugging me. Gone the way of dryer-eaten socks, hair elastics and single earrings, I can only guess.

I have been especially introspective in the last months, thinking a lot about my place in this crazy wide world and finding the inspiration to continue that journey in the most unlikely places.

The missing album was part of a weird Sarah Harmer soundtrack that I needed to hear, as part of my reflections and meanderings through lives past. Starting with “You Were Here” (out on my own for the first time), continuing with “All of Our Names” (trying on my first “grown-up job”) and leading into…the AWOL album.

This week, downloaded “I’m a Mountain” from iTunes and have had a good listen, so my mini-soundtrack is complete. It is completely bizarre, the way certain pieces of music tether you to specific events and periods of time. That album is somehow linked to the very beginnings of my existentialist ponderings…

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I encourage you to check out ‘Escarpment Blues‘, a documentary about the environmental debate surrounding the gravel mining in the Niagara Escarpment.