Betwixt
The beauty in a sharp chill’s satisfying snap slips between my fingers, as a wandering wind rushes through, willing me to hasten home. Hugging tight, shoulders to ears, something brightens in my contraction. This body knows of summer’s suns and winter’s snows, but still holds on tight to indoor glows. This comfort of walled warmth hems me in.
The cold snaps again, his wind washing over, willing me to hasten home. The knife of the mind sharpened on winter’s whetstone, cuts in pieces, my fumbling fears.
I wonder back to childhood walks, in my winter socks, and if the cold chilled the same. This moment of memory, wills me to quiet. I’d forgotten to care about the cold. I’d forgotten to hear the whispers of wonder in every season.
I had slumbered long, but now seek more to belong. Spring is seeping steady between these cold snaps – growing space for the children of sunlight to bloom. Plants and animals are peeking and sneaking into the light. The sidewalks are moving slower, not simply conveying people home, but providing space too to roam. The insides are moving out and gathering. In this moment dancing on the edge between winter’s wind and spring’s sun, I snap to – gether with this sensation of emergence’s emancipation.
From Our Oracles
Something has failed, or rather something has come to conclusion. Through this fall, we are empowered to cultivate patience, rather than surrendering to passivity. Observe how disharmonious inner narratives create fates, and also how fates are nature’s self correction mechanism to bring us back to harmony. That which is harmonious naturally increases. In decreasing, removing and releasing the ego creates space for harmony to arise. This approach ensures a rising tide that lifts all boats.
Some Sound
A short sansula recording for springtime
Some Links
💬 An interview with avant garde composer Harold Budd
🍄 "The Mushroom Hunters" by Neil Gaiman - read by Amanda Palmer with music by Jherek Bischoff
📻 The Wire magazine’s weekly radio broadcast “Adventures In Sound And Music”
🏜 Art lecture “Spiritual Searching in Modern Times: Agnes Pelton’s Desert Transcendentalism”
We’ve been listening to:
A Shattered Beauty by Mehdi Aminian
Together is A Beautiful Place To Be by Nala Sinephro and Nubya Garcia
Hidden Dimensions (Kora Remix) by Hraach
Some Words
I travel far and wide Long and short High and low Flowing here to there But really Everywhere I am known By some as drone Others through a phone Sound travels And so do I