There is something in the energy of sound that can bring through the most sacred of experiences, the most unexpected transformations and initiations that can flow right under the radar of the conscious mind. One of those occurrences was delivered to me almost 11 weeks ago when our home was filled with flood waters and we had to be evacuated.
In the days and weeks after, we muddled through mud, broken possessions and despair as we bundled up what was salvageable and left our house for a new home, in a new town, in a new region.
While it has all ended favourably and we were helped so graciously in so many unexpected ways, it has been a leveling experience to have all that was solid and familiar washed out from under you with no ability to control, challenge or influence any aspect of what was occurring. Spending the night in the dark with a raging torrent flowing through your home not knowing if it was going to rise or stabilize was an extreme experience of being squeezed into the space of surrender. It changes you.
The 12th Road 