Now, four years later, Harper Nichols’ work is sold at Pottery Barn, Anthropologie, and on her e-commerce site. By January 2017, it’d been favorited 100,000 times. She added her name to the bottom and uploaded the message to Pinterest. “When you start to feel/ like things should have been better this year/ remember the mountains and valleys that got you here,” it starts. Without a melody, the lyrics read as a poem. On a rainy November night in 2016, still underpaid, underemployed, and feeling desperate, Harper Nichols put her feelings on paper. The couple moved to Dallas, where she did freelance design work he, construction jobs. She had intrusive, spiraling thoughts: Why do I feel so drained? Why do I feel so tired? Am I a failure? Off stage, she and her husband were constantly broke, despite her publishing deal with Capitol Christian Music Group. But the shows often left her depleted, and while on stage, she’d take out her in-ear monitors. A few days a week, the Atlanta native would join her younger sister on stage in Nashville to perform contemporary Christian music, with an acoustic guitar in hand and a deep alto voice to round out her younger sibling’s soprano. In 2014, Morgan Harper Nichols was living any singer-songwriter’s dream.
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