permanence

28/06/26

‘Blue Bucket Of Gold’ is the newsletter of signed artist and traveller Catrin Vincent, formerly the front-woman of the band Another Sky. Subscribe for news about my first solo record, touring dates and reflections on life in a van and a boat.

Negar said something beautiful the other night;

‘We are searching for permanence because we know we are not permanent ourselves’.

I don’t have many words this week. I think I’m in burnout, on the precipice of another big change. My time on the boat is coming to an end. I am dancing in the complexity of both relief and sorrow, neither and or.

I’ve been doing a lot of shadow work, or self-flagellation (I can’t tell sometimes, there’s a very fine line). But it’s been transformative, whichever one it is. Once again, maybe both. Complexity.

Friends gifted me beautiful books this week - woolgathering, lifting off (about an air hostess), how to write one song, the poetry pharmacy. I have very good friends.

Maybe I’ll live on a plane, next.

Album soon.

Blue Bucket Finds:

This Substack is named after Sufjan Steven’s ‘Blue Bucket Of Gold’, a song about the Blue Bucket myth. Kids wandered off from a mining camp in Oregon and came back with their blue bucket filled with gold, but nobody could figure out where they had found the gold, or find it again. So let me indulge you in some things from my blue bucket.

Reading:

The Poetry Pharmacy - William Sieghart

Listening: