I’ve enjoyed listening to Nick Flora’s latest EP, Conversation Hearts, and this song about falling in love in particular:

Conversation Hearts by Nick FloraNick talked on the Future Conversation podcast about trying to write songs on this EP about the more-neglected parts of love: the uncomfortable, difficult, or mundane aspect that are part of love’s daily reality for a lot of people.

The whole song, but particularly the outro/vamp lines, immediately bring to mind falling in love at first sight (“go on / tell me everything / because everything else can wait”). But as someone who will hopefully not ever fall in romantic love ever again, it’s a lot more meaningful to me to think about the experiences I’ve had in the last few years of becoming fast friends with someone who I can share so much with and enjoy their company so much in such a short time. Friendship-love is something that every human will get to experience (hopefully) far more often than romantic love, and whether or not Nick intended it this way, I love how this song captures that feeling.

You can buy Conversation Hearts here.

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Matthew grew up in a family of 15 children and completed his medical training in Baltimore, Maryland. Since 2015, he and his family have lived in East Africa, where he currently teaches and practices Family Medicine at a mission hospital. His work has appeared in outlets such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Atlantis, and Mere Orthodoxy and his first book is forthcoming from InterVarsity Press.

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