In To Break the Heart of the Sun Taylor invites you over for a few drinks & then takes you out on the gritty streets of San Francisco. You dip into the bars & cafes in the Tenderloin & North Beach, you skirt the sidewalks down Haight, in Chinatown & the Mission, all the while bonding over the people you love, music, poetry, past loves, friendship, your childhoods & dreams. You question life, both the dark & light of it, looking for the truth of it. You laugh & weep with the people you meet along the way, every face some kind of prayer. Taylor teaches you how to dance with your joy while dressed in your sorrow. He has a way of showing you how keep your heart open & closed at the same time so you don’t lose your footing, but if you do, with kind eyes & laughter escaping both your lips, his hand reaches down to help you up. He says,

I think in general it’s most honest to acknowledge that things are here for a time and then are gone and there’s not much else to say about it. It’s not a particularly romantic notion or good talk at parties, I know, yet there it is. But see, the potential for beauty lies not in this truth but in how we live with it. - How We Live