Rhythmic Reflections Part 4: A Collection of Songs & Poems of 2026

S Scott Jr

Look how far you've come.

Some journeys you only understand looking back - from the bottom of the stairs to the top, through the fog, one step at a time. In this fourth volume of Rhythmic Reflections, S Scott Jr gathers 115 songs and 25 poems - 140 pieces in all - that trace that climb across the Bay Area: from the Oakland waterfront to the San Francisco fog belt, from Richmond's Iron Triangle to the neighborhoods of the Peninsula and the East Bay.

The 115 songs carry the people who keep the region moving - longshoremen and nurses, teachers and farm workers, ferry crews and first responders - alongside love songs, wedding serenades, and slow jams, and holiday anthems that move between English, Spanish, and Chinese. Threaded between them are 25 spiritual-principle poems on patience, perseverance, purpose, and progress. Running through all of it are songs of redemption and healing - of neighborhoods holding on, and people starting over with their dignity intact.

Part celebration, part meditation, wholly Bay Area, this collection is for anyone who has ever climbed a long flight of stairs, turned around, and taken in how far the view has come.