Erin Ash Sullivan - We Walk the Flats

10 - We Walk the Flats (3:50)
When my son was tiny, I would often take him down to the local lake in the wintertime. In my town, they draw down the lake each winter, leaving acres of muddy flats, and my son could spend hours there squishing through the muck and searching for treasures. Of course those endless afternoons now feel like a blink of an eye, and for me they embody the weird way we experience the passage of time when we’re parents (“He stops beside a boulder as his fingers trace the waterline/And asks when will the water start to flow/And he’s off again before I can collect myself and answer him/My darling, so much sooner than you know”). This song won the Mark Erelli Judge’s Choice Award in the New England Songwriting Contest.