Love Letters to Forgotten Things

Brian Easterling
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Love Letters to Forgotten Things is a series of lyrical reflections, strange monologues, and tender tributes to the lost and nearly-lost moments of our shared past. It's for the things we remember quietly, in car rides and in grocery store aisles. The moments we thought no one else had held onto—but did. We write to the scuffed plastic of Trapper Keepers. To the last golden hour of summer vacation. To the sound of a local DJ’s voice echoing through a putt-putt golf course at 10 p.m. on a Tuesday. To the feeling of being known—completely—and then, one day… not. These aren’t love letters in the traditional sense. They’re love letters to smells, to sounds, to textures. To weird rituals, awkward moments, and the small sacredness of being a child in a world that hadn’t yet forgotten how to feel big. They are not eulogies. They are reminders. Tiny, flickering reminders. Because the past isn’t gone—it’s just quieter now. We’re not here to mourn what’s lost. We’re here to marvel at what once was— and how lucky we were to have been there at all. There’s no proof. No pictures. Just this: a love letter.

  1. 1d ago

    The Last Hot Day - The Quiet Goodbye Summer Leaves Behind

    It’s the last hot day of the year – when summer exhales its final golden breath and the air smells like memories. This episode is a love letter to that quiet goodbye… the moment you feel time slip warm through your fingers.

    The Last Hot Day - The Quiet Goodbye Summer Leaves Behind

  2. Aug 25

    Mixtape Never Sent - When Songs Spoke Louder Than We Could

    A pause button. A whisper. A love letter that never left the drawer. Some songs aren’t meant to be heard—just felt, forever.

    Mixtape Never Sent - When Songs Spoke Louder Than We Could

  3. Aug 25

    Pointlessness vs. Meaninglessness - Play, Purpose, and the Art of Wasting Time Beautifully

    Pointlessness vs. Meaninglessness draws a gentle line between despair and delight — between hollow busyness and the humble joy of play. Through stories of forgotten hobbies and creative experiments, Bunny reminds us that “pointless” once meant free. This is an ode to the half-built models, the broken puppets, and the projects with no audience — to the wild, generous urge to make something that may never last. Because sometimes, meaning hides best in the things that refuse to justify themselves.

    Pointlessness vs. Meaninglessness - Play, Purpose, and the Art of Wasting Time Beautifully

  4. Aug 24

    Voices - The Vanishing Soundtrack of Our Lives

    We think we’ll remember forever—the laugh of a parent, the warmth in a friend’s voice, the way someone said our name. But voices fade. First the rhythm goes. Then the tone. Until all that’s left is a shadow in the mind, an outline where a person used to be. In this episode, we explore the bittersweet truth of memory and loss, from childhood moments before smartphones to the aching silence left behind when those sounds are gone. It’s a meditation on grief, nostalgia, and the fleeting nature of human connection—how voices are more than sound; they are presence, proof, and love made audible. If you’ve ever wished you had recorded someone you loved—or found yourself chasing an echo you’ll never hear again—this episode will stay with you.

    Voices - The Vanishing Soundtrack of Our Lives

  5. Aug 24 ·  Bonus

    Before the Voices Go - Based on the LLTFT episode: Voices

    "Before the Voices Go" is a song inspired by the Love Letters to Forgotten Things piece “Voices.” We remember faces, gestures, stories. But sometimes the first thing to disappear is the sound of someone we loved. Their laugh. The way they said our name. The ordinary voice we assumed would always be there. A song about memory, absence, and the voices we wish we could hear one more time. About the recording: Lyrics and concept written by Brian Easterling. The musical arrangement, instrumentation, and vocal performance were created using Suno AI. The song was developed as a companion piece to the Love Letters to Forgotten Things episode “Voices” #LoveLettersToForgottenThings #Voices #Grief #Memory #Remembering

    Before the Voices Go - Based on the LLTFT episode: Voices

  6. Aug 20 ·  Bonus

    You Stayed When We Left - inspired by the LLTFT: Driveway

    You Stayed When We Left is an original song inspired by “Driveway,” an episode of Love Letters to Forgotten Things. It’s about one of those ordinary places that quietly becomes a witness to an entire life. A driveway doesn’t seem like much. Just concrete. A place for cars, bicycles, chalk drawings, basketball hoops, scraped knees, and whatever junk somebody forgot to bring inside. But over enough years, it becomes something else. It becomes the place where children first test the boundaries of home. Where friends gather. Where dates begin and end. Where grandparents wave goodbye from car windows. Where somebody gets their first set of keys, loads up a back seat, and pulls away toward adulthood. And eventually, it becomes the place where you leave for the last time. You Stayed When We Left is about that strange permanence. Families grow up, scatter, move away, and disappear from a place that once felt like the center of the universe. The house changes hands. The people change. The neighborhood changes. But in memory, that little stretch of concrete is still holding everything. The bikes. The chalk. The kisses before curfew. The luggage. The arguments. The reunions. The last hugs. And maybe that’s why leaving a childhood home can hurt in ways that have very little to do with architecture. We aren’t only leaving rooms behind. We’re leaving the stage where thousands of tiny moments happened without anyone realizing they were becoming history. The driveway watched us arrive. It watched us grow. And when the day finally came for us to pull away, it did the only thing it could. It stayed. About the recording: Lyrics and concept written by Brian Easterling. The musical arrangement, instrumentation, and vocal performance were created using Suno AI. The song was developed as a companion piece to the Love Letters to Forgotten Things episode “Driveway.”

    You Stayed When We Left - inspired by the LLTFT: Driveway

  7. Aug 20 ·  Bonus

    The First Person I Never Knew - inspired by the LLTFT: Main Character

    The First Person I Never Knew is an original song inspired by “Main Character,” an episode of Love Letters to Forgotten Things. It’s about one of the strangest realizations we can have as human beings: every stranger we pass is living a life every bit as complicated, emotional, ordinary, ridiculous, and important to them as ours is to us. The episode begins with a childhood memory of noticing a stranger across the street. Nothing dramatic happened. They didn’t speak to me. They didn’t even notice me. They simply existed. And somehow, for the first time, I understood what that meant. That person had somewhere to go. Someone they loved. Things they worried about. Private jokes. Childhood memories. Favorite foods. Bad days. People they missed. An entire history that had been unfolding long before I saw them and would continue long after they disappeared from view. The First Person I Never Knew is about that moment when another human being stops being part of the scenery. It’s the realization that we’re all the center of our own story while simultaneously being background characters, passing faces, and complete strangers in millions of others. There’s something humbling about that. But there’s also something comforting. Our individual lives may be small pieces of an unimaginably large world, but every person we pass is carrying a world of their own. I never learned that stranger’s name. I never knew where they were going. They probably never knew I existed. And yet, for a few seconds, they taught me something about being human that I’ve carried ever since. They were the first person I never knew. About the recording: Lyrics and concept written by Brian Easterling. The musical arrangement, instrumentation, and vocal performance were created using Suno AI. The song was developed as a companion piece to the Love Letters to Forgotten Things episode “Main Character.”

    The First Person I Never Knew - inspired by the LLTFT: Main Character

  8. Aug 20 ·  Bonus

    I Made This For You - inspired by the LLTFT: Childhood Burning

    I Made This For You is an Americana/country song inspired by “Childhood Burning,” an episode of Love Letters to Forgotten Things. This one felt like it needed roots. The episode comes from something that happened after my parents died, when I found a box containing more than a hundred childhood drawings, cards, and construction-paper creations I had made for them over the years. They had kept them all. Crayon pictures. Misspelled words. Crooked little portraits. The kind of things children make without embarrassment because they haven’t yet learned to be self-conscious about love. Finding them decades later was overwhelming. These weren’t valuable objects in any conventional sense, but they were evidence. Proof that a little boy had spent years trying, in whatever language he had available, to tell his parents: I love you. I appreciate you. I made this for you. I photographed the ones I wanted to remember, then took the originals outside and burned them one by one. Not as destruction. As delivery. The ashes were eventually taken to my parents’ graves, turning the whole thing into a small private ritual of letting go. The drawings had been made for them in the first place. Somehow, returning them felt right. The Americana/country sound of I Made This For You felt appropriate because the story is deeply tied to family, home, Kentucky, memory, and the quiet ways ordinary people express love. It isn’t really a song about burning childhood keepsakes. It’s about realizing how much of grief involves deciding what we carry, what we release, and how we say goodbye to objects that once carried enormous meaning. And beneath all of it is still that child with a crayon in his hand, making something for his mom and dad and hoping they understand what he means. Here. I made this for you. About the recording: Lyrics and concept written by Brian Easterling. The musical arrangement, instrumentation, and vocal performance were created using Suno AI. The song was developed as a companion piece to the Love Letters to Forgotten Things episode “Childhood Burning.”

    I Made This For You - inspired by the LLTFT: Childhood Burning
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Love Letters to Forgotten Things is a series of lyrical reflections, strange monologues, and tender tributes to the lost and nearly-lost moments of our shared past. It's for the things we remember quietly, in car rides and in grocery store aisles. The moments we thought no one else had held onto—but did. We write to the scuffed plastic of Trapper Keepers. To the last golden hour of summer vacation. To the sound of a local DJ’s voice echoing through a putt-putt golf course at 10 p.m. on a Tuesday. To the feeling of being known—completely—and then, one day… not. These aren’t love letters in the traditional sense. They’re love letters to smells, to sounds, to textures. To weird rituals, awkward moments, and the small sacredness of being a child in a world that hadn’t yet forgotten how to feel big. They are not eulogies. They are reminders. Tiny, flickering reminders. Because the past isn’t gone—it’s just quieter now. We’re not here to mourn what’s lost. We’re here to marvel at what once was— and how lucky we were to have been there at all. There’s no proof. No pictures. Just this: a love letter.

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