Tranquility comes in the strangest of shapes sometimes.
Ceiling Fan, So Profound: A Song
I am terrified of being vulnerable. I am sharing this anyway.
This was first a silly poem. I published in the ever-growing Illumination pub on a day when I had a long list of tedious house chores to attend to.
The words are a symbolic expression of the things that I have personally overcome and obstacles that all people can understand.
By attempting to dust a ceiling fan while being mindful, I found myself enchanted by the beauty of the task. The whole world seemed to sing to me in those moments.
Then it became a song. I used a music program that I LOVE called Garage Band on my iPad and my voice filtered through a few neat tools to give it a surreal-robot-angel quality was the icing on the cake.
I suppose I should also confess that I have been listening to it repeatedly for several days and even with all the flaws and pitchy problems… I am moved to tears each time I…
