Lucy Kaplansky has a well-honed gift for making sense of the everyday, mundane details of life. ...

Somehow when she sings these little notes, life’s apparently disparate dots connect, and we get an image that is equal parts heartbreaking, hopeful, and chocked full of humanity. ...

The pithy old curse stated, “May you live in interesting times.” And here we are. Thankfully we have artists like Lucy Kaplansky to draw our eyes to the small hints of beauty and promise around us, to remind us that hope is not a large, leaping, caterwauling thing, but rather a small bud on a fragile branch, trying in earnest to bloom.

- Kim Ruehl, Folk Alley