On this All Hallows’ Eve, a few days before our country will attempt to make a collective decision about the leadership of the highest offices of government, and in the midst of the death of much of what we think of as good and right and sacred, I’m thinking about who I am as a […]
Listen to “Ground of Being” the final track of the album, Via Transformativa
Listen to the title track of the Transformativa album.
This composition is a meditation on arriving home. I’ve attempted to conjure in the music a state of arriving home to yourself, embracing and being embraced for being you– which for each person is nothing less than the divine manifestation of the physical and spiritual wholeness of the universe. Coming home to oneself, as well […]
This composition reflects how one can become awakened, perhaps after a long journey of unknowing, like a root down in the dark silence that one day breaks through into the open air. Or, the birth of something that has waited and slowly gestated, now being realized into the wider world. It might even be a […]
The motif cycles continuously, as unknowing and letting go is a lesson I have to learn over and over again – it’s a life long journey. I have so often tried to know as much as possible to solve problems that can’t be solved with the head alone. What I know fits into a thimble […]
Sitting with silence, with pain, with sorrow and loss is hard. Especially on our own. Welcoming the possibility of holding promise at the same time often seems out of reach, unless we have support from others, from community, from a practice of connection with something greater than ourselves. Being with pain, yet holding the promise […]
You can’t get to the dawn of a new day without first suffering through a dark night. The fourth song on the album, “Children of First Light”, continues the instrumental story introducing an awareness of suffering together with a promise of redemption and resurrection. For this soundscape meditation, I imagine our ancient ancestors, a group […]
Following the cataclysmic birth of Sol, the sun, the story continues with today’s song, “Breath”. Bringing in some of the same elements from “In The Beginning” breathing is connected with the beginnings of the universe, and relies upon the energy from sunlight. I imagine the first Divine breath of life occurring in that transforming space […]
It is often darkest just before the dawn. “Birth of Sol” is the second song on my album, Via Transformativa. Thanks for listening, and my gratitude to Elizabeth, Colleen, and Rhianna for their vocals on the song. Birth of most kinds involves pain and beauty all bound up together. The birth of our solar system’s […]
