As a DJ, I always take requests. What’s your recalibration ritual when the gears grind or the rhythm feels off?
Share your favorites…and maybe you’ll inspire my next playlist!
Six months into our Dutch experiment, life has taken on a strange sort of sync. Not perfection. Not ease, but a rhythm. One made of train schedules, new careers, clumsy Nederlands, and unexpected bursts of joy that make it all feel worth it.
This is a playlist about living not in precise tick-tock form, but in the messy, emotional machinery of building a life. It’s about recalibration, recovery, and ritual—daily surprises, emotional pivots, and the pulse of persistence.
So open the windows, pour a cup of something warm (or strong), and let these songs walk with you through the in-between.
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