Dear Ones,
This week my post has come late. It has been hard to catch a significant enough breath to write or record.
But my expression, although late, is even closer to my heart this week. It is a song that has emerged from this time of intimacy with our inextricably shared lives and deaths. A song that, unlike my sharing of two weeks ago, is entirely from me… words and music.
I have been increasingly compelled by the larger way that this time inspires if not requires a deep pause, within each and every one of us, as well as for our communities, for teams, choirs and crews, for whole nations, and industries, and thus for our earth. And although it means uncertainty and even ruin for some who are close to destitute already, it also means that some among us can remember our deep and ancient belonging to earth, our profound interbeing with her, our essential shared ecological identity.
This continues to move me and reorganize me, and it seems part of a more wrenching invitation at times, to stand in the deep work this time holds for me… Part of my answer is always in a song: so here is a first take, no effects, raw version of the song, for which last week I posted the words…
Take a deep breath, thanks for listening…