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 felt this was a useful practice. In a nutshell, you basically meditate to a drumbeat that entrains brainwaves to the theta state. You set an intention and go with what you experience.
I decided I would do a journey on who Kieth was to me at this point. Often, I would find that a journey would take me somewhere other than my intention, or to an answer much broader than I would have expected. That was the case with this journey.
At the beginning I saw to threads of light moving through space leaving trails behind. They intertwined. I perceived this to represent Kieth and me. I found it comforting. But then I began to see more threads moving across our path. And as this continued, my perspective broadened and I saw an entire basket being woven with these threads of light. I saw we were part of a bigger picture. And I also understood from this that, if you pull away from what is intended structurally, you warp the design of the basket. I saw this as a responsibility be an ethical part of this “basket.”
I had asked what Kieth and I were to each other after his death and, instead, received a metaphor for all life and how we fit in. This is one of a handful of journeys that have had a very significant impact on me. And this is one that I feel I have to share because of its significance to everyone.
I recently was moved to turn this into song lyrics and then a song. It’s now ready to share. At this point, only with printed lyrics until such time as I find a willing singer for it. Please take a listen.