A time of retreat follows a full summer

A Distant Wind CD is born

Before my main message, I want to announce my summer project is about to conclude. I have finished editing my new CD A Distant Wind. You can pre-buy it now at Gyre Music, and it will be shipped in a few weeks. Here’s one track, The sweet voice sings, 1st movement of Timid Nightingale, Sonata #3

A bright summer

Photo by Daniela Spector

Around the last summer solstice I shared my article Coming out with Cancer. A bright light shone on my soul, and that light was you, my friends, my family, my colleagues. You loved me, you blessed me, you opened me. Once again, I am grateful for your well-wishes and blessings. I thank you for being there in my time of need.

But the social media frenzy has exhausted me to some degree and now the light retreats. The summer was bright and magnificent, but the day shortens now, and night takes over. The long winter begins. It’s time to curl up in my cocoon with my wife and my guitar and my music, and continue my silent metamorphosis. My blogs have reached so many of you and I have received so much positive feedback. I am deeply touched and heartened.

A quiet fall

Now I need to pull back into a quiet place and retrieve my muse. I have not composed for a year and that is the longest in the past two decades. But three weeks ago the muse suddenly grabbed me, shook me and started to flow. I will follow that urge and replace my keyboard with a pencil and paper. Five line paper.

My new composition is titled Gratus Sum. Through it I seek to thank all of you, especially the musicians who have offered so much in doing the Tribute to Frank concerts in late October. I also want to thank those healers, artists and other musicians who have not been mentioned. And so a few blogs will follow at random times with mention of my healers and the artists who surround me with beauty in this difficult time. I am not disappearing! Merely taking a much needed rest – something I’ve never been very good at – it needs practice!

Blessings! Frank

…but before we go, Rufus has something to say…