Calm

MARIE MCGILVRAY: vocals, acoustic guitar, BGVs
RON GOMEZ: percussion
MICHAEL ROJAS: keyboards
MATT SLOCUM: cello

Produced by Ron Gomez
Cello arrangement by Matt Slocum, formerly of Sixpence None the Richer

I wrote this song after a chance meeting with a stranger. I went to get a pedicure, and the sweet vietnamese woman who was tending to me told me a heartbreaking story about how she had lost her baby girl a year prior. She was still very guilt ridden and even asked me if I thought she did the right thing in caring for her sick child. It turns out she did not have health insurance and so the local hospital discharged her baby from the neonatal intensive care unit. She died 2 days later. Her story stayed with me for days and I grieved her loss as well as the state of healthcare in this country. I wrote this song as a way to soothe some of that grief.