on autumns doorstep

All Maps Welcome - Tom Mcrae

Current highlights - For the Restless, Packing for the Crash, It Aint You, My Vampire Heart, Still Lost.


"I’m excited and if not happy – it’s me after all – then at least as close to peaceful as I’ve been recently. It’s a strange life at times, and I’m no closer to understanding anything, but somehow singing and writing songs is as good a map for this journey as I’ve found yet." Tom Mcrae






Patron Saint of Liars - Ann Patchett


... set in a Catholic home for unwed mothers in Habit, Kentucky.

Think before you lay the foundations for a lie - once built they are near impossible to demolish.








deliquesce \del-ih-KWES\, intransitive verb: 1. To melt away or to disappear as if by melting. 2. (Chemistry) To dissolve gradually and become liquid by attracting and absorbing moisture from the air, as certain salts, acids, and alkalies. 3. To become fluid or soft with age, as certain fungi. 4. To form many small divisions or branches -- used especially of the veins of a leaf.

Deliquesce comes from Latin deliquescere, from de-, "down, from, away" + liquescere, "to melt," from liquere, "to be fluid." It is related to liquid and liquor.