Today’s Notes:

The sounds of this room

Listening to birds through the roof
Imagining through the ceiling to those birds
On the roof; hearing their pacing
Their little leaps, their take offs
As if blind, just imagining their movements. My roof is tin
So their presences and little hops
Are amplified. The sound of this room
Includes them each day. As well as as planes overhead
And dump trucks
People’s passing conversations
The AC and electrical
This room is uninsallated from life.
Some rooms are meant just for listening
To what’s around them. The surroundings
Become the life of those rooms.
Like us, we both emit and receive sounds.
We are and express
But also we are impressed
By all that is around us.
We make sounds, and receive them
All the time. What we receive or open
Ourselves to hear or listen to-matters.
Now, the birds have left the room
But I can still hear them from high above on a wire which runs from here across the street. I know they are there, because I recall how that wire runs, and the distance of their chirping.

When in my art studio, I often close my eyes to try to hear my paintings without vision. They emit a type of energy that is audible if you really listen. But then when
I open my eyes, I hear their music loudly.

In nature, things cling to our socks.
Even walking from my house to my art shed, I collect all sorts of things on my socks. Leaves, seeds, debris. My socks receive and interact with their surroundings, as does the rest of me.
In life, things cling to us
Some helpful, others less so.
Noticing what’s clinging to you at the end of the day, is a helpful practice, and tells
The story of where you went
Along your way each day.

Daily hourly I stop and just listen to the
Layers of sound around me, and try to hear
Their narratives, and then the story
They are all in through
My listening to them.
For what it’s worth can hear
I am loving by listening.

To listen well to a person
Is to love them. It is the same with
All that surround us.
To listen in thanks for all you hear
Is part of healing them.
We help make things whole
By listening to them lovingly.