Gratitudes

Saturday night's sound meditation feels like coming home to a part of myself, a once hidden vibration inside finding its way into form. Yet it is the invisible transformation that feels most palpable - some freedom to create and express, to hold and be held, to love and to smile, and wonderful expansiveness.

Until a couple years ago, I was afraid to sing happy birthday and would mouth the words in silence. I couldn't imagine myself making sound or music, even with my love of dance.

In love with my life partner and the sound and community we have grown, side by side with a dear friend, in the light of an approaching full moon, warmed through great nature's chill by some vibration, I am overwhelmed with gratitude.

In one of my first poems many years ago, in the security of solitude, I wrote, "guardian of eternal childhood hear my call," and I thank myself for the invocation, and all that stewarded me into the present - to a space where the eternal sounds more deeply, to a space together with love 🙏