Dear Mia,It’s mid December, and days are starting to feel wintry. The weather is getting chilly and crisp, the daylight hours fewer and fewer. I’m missing you now more than ever. Winter season always gave us another excuse to cuddle, to cook up a pot of hearty stew, to find a nearby bar with a fireplace—for more cuddling.
Christmas is just around the corner. I’m going to spend it in Denmark with your family, who are now my family too. Seems like just a minute ago you and I were there together for Christmas—riding the Hans Christian Andersen ride at Tivoli, then warming our hands and faces over the Dong Energy heaters; enjoying time with Claus & Thomas and Tobias, and with Maja & Mads and the girls. Was that really two whole years ago? This Christmas season will be a doozy—with a big lunch planned at Café Petersborg in Copenhagen, then Christmas days and eves with Eric & Hilde and the girls in Fünen. Looks like I’ll get to meet Pia and her family on this trip too. I’m so looking forward to all the hugs and smiles and stories and photos we’ll all share, and I hope you’ll understand if there’s a tear or two.
I’m on tour now, with Amber Rubarth—a plan you put in motion over a year ago when you suggested she and I record an album together. It’s finally done and dusted, and we’re touring the south to spread the word about it. The southland has been kind to Amber and me. Lots of friendly faces at our gigs, more sunshiny days than we’d expected, sweet visits with my cousins on days off in Decatur, and of course southern food—barbecue, shrimp & grits, and Brunswick stew. Wish you were here. You’d be loving the food, or at least marveling at it, and you'd be taking in all the sights as well—snapping photos of the Spanish moss drooping off the trees in Savannah, the vintage neon signs in Memphis, and all the light-and-shadow play everywhere in the morning and early evening. And then there'd be some more cuddling...
I’ve got to sign off now. It’s time to get back on the road with Amber. I’ll write again soon.
Sending you love with every beat of my heart, today and all the days that follow.
~Adam
