Sound Circle of Life

Listening right now to Walela singing "Amazing Grace" in Cherokee. The first time I heard it I started weeping and decided in that moment that I want this played at my funeral. Other than that I don't have too many thoughts about a funeral- but I would have one just so that I could have this song played at it! It is so beautiful.

I haven't been blogging. I miss it. I think of it just about every day. I have been spending time with my mother in her 90th year which has been an incredible gift for both of us. And then unexpectedly my 33 year old son had to have surgery to remove some scar tissue in his small intestine from Crohn's Disease. The surgery took a lot longer than they expected and his healing is slower also than anticipated. So I have been very much dealing with that, plus my mother- and Christmas around the corner. I am so grateful that I am in New England to be with my son while he is going through this.

And there is the grace! "I do not know what anything is for."

The Amazing Talent of Alice Coltrane

Clicked to some great link online just now which opened up a world of bhakti and in the middle of the page was this wonderful piece by Alice Coltrane. God how I love her music. Her "Radha-Krsna Nama Sankirtana" was one of my all-time favorite albums years ago. Played it til I could play it no more. Would often listen to it over and over. I ache sometimes to be able to hear it and chant along with "Govinda Jai Jai" and "Prema Muditha".

I think the couple my ex-husband and I lived with off and on must have had the album with this title track because when I heard it tonight I knew every note of it and it resonated so deeply within me. So interesting to hear this music from a time when I knew nothing on a conscious level about sound healing and have the awareness of how deeply healing this music was for me.

Sound Sculptures

For the past two weeks I have been working pretty intensely, as much as I have time, on my Healing Sound Garden website www.healingsoundgarden.squarespace.com. I have been exploring all kinds of possibilities for sound sculptures and outdoor instruments. This morning I ran across this pretty wild sound sculpture. Not suitable for an outdoor sound garden but nonetheless, very cool!