Consider the seed. Consider the tiny speck the falls from the tree or flower and finds its new home within the soil. Within weeks you will have a new plant or tree. Is the tree contained within the seed fully formed? Of course not. The seed could not possibly contain all the matter to …
Last week, in a desire to try something new, I bought a xiao (pronounced like “show” in the word “shower”). A xiao is a Chinese flute, usually made of bamboo and is a bit more of a challenge to play as compared to the typical Native American style flute. With NASF flute, you blow into …
When I create a new piece of music, it generally comes about in one of three ways. If there are lyrics, they come first establishing the rhythm and suggesting pieces of melody. If it is instrumental only, I either create a melody on flute and build structure around it or come up with a structure …
If you’ve never been fortunate enough to see a mumuration of starlings live, you’ve likely at least seen pictures. The purpose behind a starling murmuration is widely believed to be a defense against predators. When hundreds or, perhaps sometimes thousands, of birds fly in swooping and twisting formation, appearing to operate as one unit, makes …
Starting the Journey December 19, 2012. That was the start of this journey for me. Late that afternoon, my life partner of 32 years died. At least that’s the way I looked at it then. After saying last goodbyes, I went home from the hospital with my mother, who had been in town to take …
Being a child of the 1960s, I am very familiar with Star Trek. And almost everyone who has seen the original series (and some who have not) as also familiar with the beginning of the narration to the opening credits: “Space: The Final Frontier.” And to most, space being the final frontier would seem a …
In 1983 I read a book by Peter Russell titled The Global Brain. It truly changed my perspective on life. The book takes the viewpoint of the Earth as a living entity of which we are a part. It also hypothesizes that we are at a crossroads (and now that it is 2021, the clock …
I have a tendency in my humanness to narrow my view of existence to one direction at a time. I spend a little time contemplating what, from our perspective, is the micro. I understand that we mostly consist of empty space within our constituent atoms… what we perceive as the solidity of matter is an …
The German researcher Heinrich Wilhelm Dove is credited with discovering binaural beats in 1839. Binaural beats are actually produced by the brain when signals consisting of two separate frequencies are experienced discretely through each ear. The beat produced by the brain is the difference between the two beats. For example, one ear hearing a tone …
When my partner Kieth died in 2012, I felt a void as to the purpose of my life. I had spent a number of months caregiving and now there was this emptiness. I wasn’t sure how to move forward. Several months earlier, I had learned how to drum journey with a friend of mine. I …