My highest belief is in duality. Not one thing is one thing only. Human nature is to force a category, a label to everything we experience. We mark our lives on a linear timeline and organize it into chapters. The point where a chapter ends, it also begins. It’s in these transitions that I find duality, where I find God. I find that duality mirrored in everything I think and feel.
Janus is the Roman god and goddess of transition, of beginnings and endings. It’s also the name of the new album by the Paula Boggs Band. Paula Boggs is the primary songwriter of the band’s music but would describe herself more as a storyteller, a chronicler, or an observer, “of something I am trying to make sense of in the world,” Boggs says, “there are other songs that are quite personal and come from a deep place within.” All of the songs were written or reimagined in early 2021, during what Boggs calls the triple pandemics of public health, race, and politics.