New Song: Imposters
A business meeting, an ancient parable, and a song about the things that dress up as wins or losses — and how slowly the difference reveals itself.
Added a new song: Imposters.
This one started in a meeting. Not the kind of meeting you daydream through — the kind that surprises you with something real.
Our CEO was speaking to several thousand people about the harder realities of the work we do. Then, without much fanfare, he dropped an ancient parable into the middle of it: The Old Man Lost His Horse. I thought I’d heard most of the old ones. I hadn’t heard this one. Or maybe I had and hadn’t been ready for it yet.
The short version: things that look like misfortune may not be. Things that look like luck may not be either. The wise response to both is the same — steady, unhurried, reserved.
“Maybe so, my friend.”
That phrase ended up in the song. It earns its place.
The theme isn’t new — fortune as a trickster, loss as a door, setbacks as the road itself — but the parable cuts straight to it without sentiment. That’s what I was after with this one.
It’s part of the Pretty Polygrass collection, Vol 2.