I’ve been a farm boy, fired choir boy, best boy, and a cowboy.
A mechanic, a drunken wreck, a trucker, and a nailer.

• A baler, a swather, a mother, a father.
• A Brethren, a preacher, a missionary, a teacher.
• An Albertan, Victorian, New Yorker, valedictorian.

A hoser and a closer, a fisher and a fighter.
A painter, a framer, a gamer, and brat tamer.
A consultant, a journalist, a heathen, a hedonist.

• A photographer, biographer, a guard and a center.
• A monogamist, polyamorist, enveloper and developer.

A hunter, biographer, racer, and writer.
I’ve lost it all but kept the rest. And finally, I am—and will always be
—Brick, and these are my songs.

I hope you enjoy them. I value your attention, because your attention is your time, and your time is all you really have.