This is the song that eventually led to the Winter Solstice, and humanistculture.com

For years, I had been looking for a humanist anthem, that resonated with everything I believed and made me proud to be a member of my species. There were plenty of great songs that almost hit the mark, but nothing that quite made me feel the way I wanted to.

Eventually I realized, if I couldn’t find what I was looking for, I could just write it myself.

At the time, I had no idea I was about to embark on a quest to jumpstart a revitalized movement of humanist art and music, or reimagine a holiday. And it turns out, starting out your quest by writing the central anthem for a movement isn’t the greatest idea – central anthems are *hard*. Who knew? And when I started, I didn’t know anything about writing songs for communal singing.

But I’ve been fine-tuning this song for two years now. This is a rough mix of the final, recorded version, to be released towards the end of January as we finish our album.