Life is full of moments that are difficult to explain while we’re living through them. Sometimes words aren’t enough, and sometimes we simply don’t know how to make sense of what we’re feeling.

For me, music offers another way in. Like a soundtrack in a film, music can become attached to a moment and preserve not just what happened, but how it felt. Lost Keys is my way of holding onto those feelings.

Each chapter begins with a real moment, experience or emotion, and becomes a piece of music I can return to, to remember how I felt then, and discover how I feel now. The music remains the same, we don’t.

And that’s what makes returning to it meaningful. The moment is preserved, but our relationship with it can change as we do. Lost Keys is a way of staying present and making sense of its complexity, and giving the moments that shape us somewhere to live.

The story might be mine, but the feeling is yours to find.