The Yellow Door Life

To Kate Bush – Then and Now,

It seems odd to write you a letter as a stranger, when you have become so much a friend. 

I don’t think you will ever fully grasp the impact your song would have on people, especially when you first released it back then. 

Did you know that song would help a frightened 31-year-old have the courage to uproot her entire life and move across the country? 

Did you know it helped her let go of a toxic marriage? 

Did you know that the song played in her head as she walked away from yet another doctor who refused to listen to her?

Did you know that it was the first song that came on as she drove away from the house she had called her home for 3 years, and never would again?

Did you know it came on the radio in a coffee shop thousands of miles away and made her cry, as she made a new friend? 

Kate – you are a stranger, but your voice is with me every time I feel trapped, lost, or alone. 

Your voice is my escape from the things that seek to strangle me in this life. 

• The words of an ex-husband that broke me. 
• The words of doctors who refuse to believe in anything outside of the box. 
• The words I said to myself when I listened to the devil on my shoulder, rather than the angel on my knee. 

You were with me as I left behind the past and ran up the hill to my present, to my future. 

I know you will be with me every time I reach something I have been running towards. 

And the beauty is the more I run, the easier it is to breathe.

So really Kate, I have you to thank for the breath in my lungs and the courage to let go of things that seek to destroy. 

Your Strange Friend,

The Girl Behind the Yellow Door ❤