“2012 is the Year of Voices. I am vowing to follow the voice of my heart and the voice of my mind this year. It will be a year of listening as well as doing. It is for certain to be an adventure.” — from The Year of Voices

I found a great source of inspiration on my travels in the form of mountains: viewing the Cascades and Rainier from the Puget Sound, climbing Mt. Pinnacle and realizing I was stronger than the last time I climbed it, driving through the Sandias, Picacho Peak and Texas Canyon alone with my thoughts, my feelings: the Voices. They echoed profoundly through and from them. They said, “Keep going.”

Here is the soundtrack to (at least, the first half of) my Year of Voices.

Feel free to click on the artwork above or you can download here.

Photography by me.
Design by me.
Track arrangement by me.

Lenny Kravitz—Always on the Run
U.S. Royalty—Monte Carlo
Josh Rouse—Flight Attendant
The Perishers—Carefree
Arcade Fire—Modern Man
Rufus Wainwright—Sometimes You Need
Fleet Foxes—Grown Ocean
Ben Howard—Old Pine
Fleetwood Mac—Brushes (Never Going Back Again)
Josh Rouse—Las Voces
Eddie Vedder with Nursat Fateh Ali Khan—The Long Road
Lissie—Everywhere I Go
Fleetwood Mac—Gypsy
U.S. Royalty—Equestrian
Devendra Banhart—Freely
Arcade Fire—Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)

What did you think of a Year of Voices and Mountains