Music of Abundance

In the Midwest, we are now at harvest time. Fields are brown as corn and soybeans are already out of the fields and into the bins. Most vegetables and fruits are long ago harvested.

This photo comes from Salamoni State Park last Thursday on our last warm day this week. The trees are well into their winter hibernation process, and the quality of sunshine is changing. Everything is softer....preparing for the winter soon upon us.

I love photos of pathways that lead into the unknown. There can be such a wonderful feeling of adventure....what might happen?....where might we go? That is my feeling when I am connected to the larger world of possibility. However, if I get caught in fear......look out! The pathway into the unknown becomes a road less traveled and life quickly becomes small.

Music of abundance....all of my music has been written as celebration of The Beloved in her various forms....as lover, as mother earth, as Heart of Sky, as joyful companion, as sacred portal.
Autumn is her time of abundance. We and she have planted and cared for life, and in the time of Autumn we are harvesting the fruits of our caring.

I am pulling the threads of so many projects into completion.....in effect, harvesting them.

This week has also been an exploration into the power of ritual and the "what" of ritual. Ritual goes beyond a particular form, or a particular belief structure. In it's essence ritual is a communication between worlds.....it can be with people present or individual ritual. The portals open....silence flows as active presence moving from one world to the other.....nurturing and nourishing. My music flows from this space and supports this space of ritual for myself and others.

So...onward on the pathway of adventure. Love to all.