We are emerging from a long winter, shedding layers, and showering in the sun. Longer daylight illuminates more space to exercise crystalized insight. Earth is painting with sprouts and petals, and we wish a new wild palette for your spring sketches.
Florescence
The motion and emotion of eternal recurrence of transition; the embodiment of cadence; the path between resonance and dissonance, tension and release – bloom – speaks of life’s richness overflowing.
I hear warm spring sun coming through my open window, see my familiar mourning dove, and smell the breeze. Spring is budding. With every passing day, I feel myself at once holding on tight to that ineffable first-nice-day-of-spring feeling, while at the same time wanting to bound forward into shorts and bright flowers. The sensations of spring, when I listen closely, become my doorway back to the moment – back to spring, beyond reveries of hibernation.
The playground is childrening, the park is frisbeeing, and the world is peopling. I taste the bittersweet tinge of receding solitude, even if at times that solitude had become lonely. I sense trepidation in this emergence.
The flower blooms without forsaking the bud, and it will wilt without forgetting its petals, and in this transformation life lets go; lets go a need to know; lets go the comfort of acclimation; lets go the form of frozen time, and catches the beat, dancing to life for no other reason but to dance, and to chance the change of bloom.
From Our Oracles
The vessel that holds all nourishment asks only to be cleared. The oft misunderstood heat that rises at the end of a cycle, fueling new life. Dismiss absolute logic puzzles in favor of relative and relevant truth, which facilitates evolution and nuance. The ego holds death as absolute, trapped in a human-centric view of the universe, but death is also ego death. It frees the spirit back to the sky like an eagle soaring. Break free of duality and false dichotomy. The harmonic cosmic dance is the attraction of life and death.
Some Links
💡 Here are some cool instruments from this year’s Guthman Musical Instrument Competition.
👁 Watch Sci-Fi animation film Fantastic Planet, or at least, listen to its soundtracks.
🎥 Italian filmmaker Giuseppe Tornatore is making a documentary on the legendary film composer Ennio Morricone called The Glance of Music.
🌸 Artfully designed landscape in Japan: Tokachi Millennium Forest
We’ve been listening to:
A lot of Moondog, especially On The Streets of New York
Afro-Harping by Dorothy Ashby
Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is by Grant Green
Feel First Life by Jon Hopkins
The Finishing by Stavroz
Some Words
Speak without voice
Without record
Without story
And
This will be
Our
Glory