Kelsey Waldon "Simple as Love" (Lyric Video) - From "No Regular Dog" and with some notes of my own

I am a Kelsey Waldon fan, and I hope that you are also. But sometimes I worry about her and who she is singing to, or who she is singing for and representing. There is a great deal of pain in much of her music, but I think that she frames it as necessary to getting to whatever is on the other side of pain and surviving. You have to be patient with her music and let it work through you, just like you have to be patient with yourself and others when there are hard times. But this song is another step in getting there. I'm happy to hear it and hear the strides being taken. There is much that is subtle here, and one of the subtleties is that people in any kind of loving relationship and the gender identities that I know can sing along with this. "Like a monarch to a mimosa tree" is a genius lyric that throws away the saccharine and gives us something so much better.