While making my very first album, I attended an alumni reunion for The Pilgrim School in Los Angeles where I was a student from kindergarten through third grade. At the reception, I flipped through a stack of old yearbooks looking for Natalie. My first love.Sure enough, there was Natalie smiling in all the old photos. I started imagining what it would be like to find her again to tell her after all these years what she meant to me. I was too young and too afraid of my feelings back then to say anything. She didn’t come to the reunion, but the phrase “Finding Natalie” stuck with me. I paired it with a melody and chord progression I’d been working on which seemed to evoke what I was feeling.The original recording has a joyful feeling to the music. Slowing down the tempo and lowering the key has made the song more intimate. To borrow words used by filmmaker Michael Pottle, who directed the music video for Finding Natalie (Reprised), I think it conveys both the sweetness and the sadness of the tale.I hope Finding Natalie (Reprised) encourages others to be bold and not hesitate about telling the people they love how much they mean to them. Our most intense early life emotional experiences don’t always turn out like we hoped, but they can provide us inspiration, and hand us powerful lessons, that stay with us forever.