“We were reminded how those simple tasks that consumed your day are such an antidote to the panicked rat race life we tend to lead these days,” recalls Jen Schaffer on Jen Schaffer and The Shiners’ newest single, “Panic Life” — available now!

Pleasantly necessary chores like gathering wood and tending to the fire became par for the course while staying mid-winter deep in the woods near Scugog, Ontario in none other than famed, late artist, sculptor, inventor, naturalist, and filmmaker Bill Lishman’s off-grid tree house.