New Song: Am I Even Me
A song born from the Ship of Theseus — what it means to keep replacing pieces of yourself until you wonder who's left.
Added a new song to the Pretty Polygrass collection: Am I Even Me.
It started with a philosophy problem — the Ship of Theseus. The idea is simple and disorienting: if you replace every plank of a ship one at a time until nothing original remains, is it still the same ship?
I’ve been sitting with that question longer than I expected to.
Because the answer matters more when the ship is you. Every year the planks get swapped out — experiences, losses, relationships, beliefs, the things you were certain of that quietly shifted. At some point you look back and wonder if the person who started this journey would even recognize the one writing the song.
But the song doesn’t stay in the question. It finds its way to something steadier. Whatever I am or am not, I know what I want to leave behind. Not achievements. Not things. Just warmth. Kindness that keeps moving after you do. Love that stitches itself into the people around you.
That’s the answer the song settles on. Maybe not a philosophical one — but a human one.