Singing

To surrender oneself to Nature… to actually experience one’s being as a thread woven within its magnificent tapestry… transforms even the briefest Nature experience into a gift beyond compare.

For millennia, human beings have celebrated their awareness of this tapestry—and their place within it—through inspired song and movement.

I experience a similar harmonic rapport each time that I am able to fully surrender my senses to the imagery, smells, sounds, and textures of the Natural World around me.

As my imagination swells with the wonder of this sensate experience, I begin to feel the framework of cultural and societal norms collapse within me… I feel my hard-won image of ‘who I think I am’ begin to dissolve… I feel a willingness to express myself more fully and openly… a freedom to sing and move with the rhythms of Life...

Songscapes

Wind Through Sage & Sparrow

Wherever we look in Nature, we see the same thing: Life feeding on Life. We see Life revealed as a wondrous net of gems…with each gem in relationship with every other gem through the rhythm of birth and death and rebirth. Every living thing celebrates this rhythm by converting animal and plant flesh into its own flesh and the flesh of its offspring…and then surrendering its own flesh to others. How can we praise any living thing without—at the same time—praising all of the livingness that has been sacrificed to support its existence?