Two years ago I posted this on Facebook: “I just recorded a bird outside my window that has been going all night long. I managed to get to sleep in spite of it but it woke me up at 5 and has been driving me crazy!
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I woke up this morning and this song was the first thing that came into my head. Kind of surprising, because in truth- at least truth with a small “t”- there have been quite a few clouds obscuring the blue sky lately. I had an attack of appendicitis last week and had an emergency appendectomy and there is the situation with a seriously ill family member we are all praying for. And of course there is the war in Ukraine
On the brighter side and balancing some of the harder stuff, my second to oldest son Moose and his wife had two identical baby girls on December 26 and I have a new love that has had me preoccupied in a wonderful way, at least prior to the health crisis of the past week. The twin girls were about 6 weeks early but they are home with their parents now, super healthy and growing fast!
In regard to this video, the music was used at the end of the movie Rabbit-Proof Fence- it is a powerful and triumphant ending to the long and painful story of three young Aboriginal girls who were taken from their home in the Australian outback and placed in a settlement 2400 km away. They escaped from the settlement and made their way back home by following a rabbit-proof fence which spans over 1000 miles. The film illustrates what was a common practice between 1905-1967 of removing Aboriginal children from their family homes who were the children of one white and one Aboriginal parent and sending them away. The idea was that once they were separated from their families of origin they would eventually marry whites and over generations their Aboriginal blood would “diminish”.
The clips in this particular video are all from Gregory Colbert’s beautiful film Ashes and Snow.
Turn Up the Volume
This is Lord Dhanwantari, an avatar of Vishnu and the embodiment of perfect health. I could use a little of his magic right now.
Here is a video of the Dhanvantari mantra that I taped in a workshop a few years ago.
I am very tired but feeling slightly better than yesterday although feverish earlier. When I was in Holland my friend Paul turned me on to a lot more Peter Gabriel that I was not familiar with. I really hadn't listened to him much in close to 20 years, other than one track with the Blind Boys of Alabama on The Long Walk Home, the soundtrack to Rabbit-Proof Fence.
Today I have had a song going through my head that I listened to several times when I was in the Netherlands. I recommend connecting to some good speakers and turning up the volume.
I am very tired but feeling slightly better than yesterday although feverish earlier. When I was in Holland my friend Paul turned me on to a lot more Peter Gabriel that I was not familiar with. I really hadn't listened to him much in close to 20 years, other than one track with the Blind Boys of Alabama on The Long Walk Home, the soundtrack to Rabbit-Proof Fence.
Today I have had a song going through my head that I listened to several times when I was in the Netherlands. I recommend connecting to some good speakers and turning up the volume.
In Brugge
Paul and I went to Brugge today. The soundtrack was 80's music most of the way. On the way back an hour and a half of Ludovico Einaudi followed by an amazing CD by Peter Gabriel called Scratch My Back- all compositions by other people arranged by him. Phenomenal.
God Is Not Throwing Dice
So, after that we did some ordinary mundane stuff, I cooked dinner and tonight I set up instruments for tomorrow's workshop on Expressive Arts Therapy and Sound Healing. I took a picture but sadly can't seem to upload it onto here. I have a friend I met the last time I was here who is also a sound healer and has a nice collection of instruments- some beautiful Himalayan singing bowls, rattles and flutes plus I brought a few bowls and a bunch of tuning forks and a couple of other small things. Paul and Jane have a Freenote they brought from me years ago and some other exotic instruemnts as well.
At the end of the day I had a very nice assortment of instruments that all sound really well together.
(My apologies that I can only post old pictures from this blog right now.)
Oh, and one more crazy piece of synchronicity- someone called Paul today to make reservation for tomorrow to stay here via Airbnb. It turned out upon talking to him that he is a sound therapist and has a sound healing center in Rumania! He is coming here with his wife and child tomorrow and bringing a bunch of instruments with him! What are the odds that there would be two of us here at the same time? He was as blown away as we were when Paul told him that I was here and said that when these things happen it is clear, as Albert Einstein said, that God is not throwing dice.
That on top of the question Paul and I have been discussing about why I am really here, since no one was signed up for any of the workshops before I got here. Paul has said several times that obviously I am here for a reason- we just don't know what it is yet. Now people are slowly starting to come out of the woodwork!