Before You Were Alive

WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY BETH GILLELAND

DIRECTED BY MICHAEL ROBINS

MUSIC BY DB CARLSON

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Some years ago, I began mothering a little boy who had lost his mother. Both of our lives were dramatically altered. He was hungry for mother love, and I—an up-to-then single artist—inherited a family that both demanded my focus and augmented my life experience in new ways. I began taking notes and recording my unfolding feelings and experiences of being a new, full-time parent riding the wake of a child’s loss. Here are some of those experiences.