Summit
At the height of this season, the world around me pauses in its fullness. The mute of winter, and the startle of spring, seem long gone. Now and here, in the cradle of heat that seems to slow the roll of the seasons, I steady. As I open my front door, I hear the roar of summer, and in the beautiful moment where I meet the heat, a pause grips me so, slowly I walk, uninterrupted by rush, free to be.
The closer I look around, the more awareness of sound, of life’s gestures marked on ground, of scents seeking to be found, abound in my internal landscape. As the summer within me awakens more and more, as my senses, into this world, continue to bore, I drop deeper into time. The slow luxury of summer sun, wrings something within me dry – clean – even as my body feels to be swimming in humidity.
As I turn once more, down another street, meeting again the rhythm of life attempted to be made neat, some fallen leaves grab me tight. In the morning light, at the height of this summer’s flight, their yellow shouts out a vision of the future. An oracle of the cycles, this street lined with trees losing their leaves, so early it seems, I question if dream. But the leaves stay on the many days I return; in the peace, presence, and pause of summer, I too welcome the fall, freeing me to feel the revolving of the forgotten wild anew.
From Our Oracles
Paying attention to the “small” seeds of events facilitates our transformations, yet avoiding perseverating on small external factors that obscure the essence of the situation brings success. In attending to our seeds, we are drawn to harmoniously also see the larger conceptual framework, and flow into relevant action. The true small blooms from the inside out, and, like the wildflower, best unfolds undisturbed. The three faces of birth, death, and life, too draw our attention to the turn of the nature — for the small again becomes the great.
Some Happenings
Adrian hosts a breathwork and sound meditation experience every Wednesday at 7:45PM at Happie Space. Come breakthrough into expanded states of consciousness through deep rhythmic breathwork and recharge with blissfully meditative sounds. Reserve your spot using the Happie Space App (iOS, Android), MindBody, or ClassPass.
We will also be hosting a private extended sound meditation late-August. If this sounds interesting to you, we encourage you to reach out.
Some Sound
A singing bowl meditation
Some Links
❖ Overtone singing & LAMBDOMA (music sculpture) by Anna-Maria Hefele
✦ Bach Played Beautifully on the Baroque Lute, by Evangelina Mascardi
🦜 Yo-Yo Ma in the forest with birds from The Birdsong Project
🛸 Handpan & Shakuhachi by Yi Yin and Yao Bojian
🥹 My Heart Will Go On - “If they played this version back then, Jack would have survived.”
We’ve been listening to:
Ghmerto by A Fileta
Avaz on Rumi Sonnet (Isfahan) by Homayoun Shajarian, Sohrab Pournazeri, Siavesh Ensemble
Yuddahpot by Zuma Dionys
Gladiator by Amir Perelman
Stardust by Porangui
Cheikhna Demba by Toumani Diabaté & Ballaké Sissoko
Some Words
A sailboat in a teacup Catches the winds Of my attention And little sailors Sigh with relief At a westerly wind To take them home Across the green sea To the rim of possibility The well of being The tree of seeing The cup of teaing Drinking up life And letting go strife Spread with no knife Ground by hand Herb to gland By ourselves we stand Not alone But in the music of invisible world Together in solitude