“Your Smile” was written by my father about my mother, and aptly captures the magnitude of a woman who radiates sunlight on any cloudy day. This was probably the quickest composition I have ever written and the first of which I composed on guitar. I wrote it in 2013 using my grandmother’s Peruvian guitar with the book of my father's poetry in my lap, sitting in an apartment on the corner of Park and Franklin Street as my bandmate and better half was running errands. It wasn't until the pandemic hit that my partner and I would revive my father's poems from Tapestry of Love and Loss that we had set to music over the years and finally put them into what would be our first album. The live acoustic video recording of the song (which can be found on YouTube) was taken on our second trip to Humboldt Redwoods State Park and was the first live acoustic recording we did for the Park and Franklin Playin' Park Series. We were in the middle of the pandemic on our last trip north just before our move from Santa Monica to the east coast. We hadn’t yet planned on this series, but the guitar and melodica were in the car and the rest is “ourstory.” Lyrics Your smile, illuminates Your smile, sets my heart aglow Your smile, spreads its wings In my eyes, in my soul Your smile, Your smile, Your smile, conjures many thoughts Your smile, moves an evening breeze Your smile, shakes the star-filled heavens over the land, over the seasmore