There are numerous allusions to washing, both literally and metaphorically, found in The Bible:

You were washed
You were sanctified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
-1Co 6:11

Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.
-John 13:8

Vocalist Joy Williams may be comparing the grace and influence a former lover to that of Jesus. Perhaps she was saved by him.

The almighty dollar wins again.

Those who oppose fracking do so on the grounds of environmental protection; fracking poses a number of potential risks to the environment, including contamination of groundwater and air quality. Allie and Nate, as well as their parents, have chosen to take up the cause as a result of purchasing property for a new home with an unsettling caveat of “four natural gas wells, a gas processing plant, a compressor station, buried pipelines, a three-acre plastic-lined holding pond, and a gravel road with heavy truck traffic.”

Accountant Stephanie Hallowich, and her husband Christopher, a high school history teacher, are the parents of two young children, Allie and Nate. The two are vocal detractors of hydraulic fracturing, the process of fracturing large rocks and injecting them with an amalgam of water, sand, and a number of chemicals in order to procure natural gasses.

Sometimes relationships start off merely as a superficial attraction, but, as Schopenhauer has noted, humans are not always in control of their emotions, and a fun little fling may eventually develop into something serious.

Such mid-life epiphanies can result in: divorce, abandonment, soul searching, and walking the earth.

Cacerolazo is a term of Chilean origin, which refers to a specific kind of peaceful protest prominent in South America. Protestors will gather pots and pans and bang them boisterously, as to call attention not only to their literal selves, but to their cause.

A reference to the phrase Chilean Winter, which was given to the early days of the protest in August of 2011 (which, of course is wintertime for those living in the southern hemisphere).

Vallejo’s claim to fame is her activism within the ongoing student movement in Chile, being pegged as the figure head for the 2011-12 protests in which demands were made for “a new framework for education in the country, including more direct state participation in secondary education and an end to the existence of profit in higher education.”

Five years studying, fifteen paying