Naya Rivera - "If I Die Young"

It wouldn’t be 2020 if there weren’t a slew of unexplainable, regrettable, terrible events happening. The tragic loss of Naya Rivera is just another of these incredibly unthinkable events.

I don’t know why this loss strikes me so. I only watched Glee sporadically for a season or two, but in that time it was obvious that Naya was a star. She was luminous in a way that made others shine with her. She was so terribly young, it seems like such a waste of that incredible talent.

So today, with an unexplainably sad heart, I choose Naya Rivera’s cover of “If I Die Young” originally by The Band Perry, as my, keep trying for that brass ring, hold me close, cover me in flowers, song for a, we won’t give up on you, thank you for showing your color of the rainbow, one more small dream left floating on the breeze, Thursday.