In April of 2012 I was at Duffy's Tavern in Valparaiso with the members and friends of a band called Toe Tags. Their leader, Matt, said to me "Let's do a show in two months and everyone on the bill will release a new album at the same time." I like song writing challenges. In that season, I was writing songs out of my ears, but the band I had formed, the Texarkana Two, was starting to wind down. I began to record some of these songs with Trathen and Monroe, but completed others by myself. A version of that album was released in June of that year. I have video of the album release set somewhere....and the production was very uneven, to say the least. But I always believed in the ideas. I often told friends I'd re-record the album...at some point. Eight years later, in January and February of 2020, I was doing just that. And leaning into a common palette, rather than the eclectic vision of the first try. The title is a nod to American author Walker F. Percy and his early 80s "Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self Help Book." I was growing a lot in my spiritual dimension and what it means to be truly human as found in the way of Christ. Some of that is here. I also lived a fairly robust night-life for being a young dad with young kiddos. You can hear that balancing act here as well. I had planned to really polish and push the new version in the spring of 2020, but the covid-19 shut downs turned the world upside down and by the time we all were making music again, I had somehow ADHD'd my way into new material and new goals. But the tracks kept calling and now their day has come. In tracking this album as I did in 2012, I used every guitar, keyboard, and stringed instrument I own. I find that a fun little detail.