This recently completed piece is my equinox offering, inspired in large part by the song of the birds.
Over time, the dominant rational mind of our western civilisation has come to find birdsong as consisting of not much more than territory defining and mate seeking. As so often happens, destroying the simple beauty and wonder of life in its wake. Many spiritual traditions and psychological insights have served the birds little better, tending to reduce everything to a symbol for something else. The birds as just representatives of messengers, angels, more important beings, and the like. Because of course, what could a mere physical bird have to do with the divine?! But what if the song of the bird is an opening to another world, made present in this one? This 'other' place presumed so distant, is right here, with something important to communicate to us, yearning for us to hear its song, to lend our consciousness to it.
Perhaps you have a song that has been forgotten, or that others do not wish to acknowledge as having meaning and significance in this world? That simple essence, which does not belong to you, but is only yours to sing.
