Soul and Spirit

Soul and Spirit

My soul is deep

My core is strong

My body is at rest

My heart is full

My mouth speaks truth

My eyes see wonder

My mind is at peace

My spirit flies

I thank Yeiter for the beautiful images from his recent trip to Utah. Please visit his artwork at Yeiter.

A Spiritual Path

I have always felt like I was on a spiritual path through my music. I always tried to come from a real place of heart and soul, never to sacrifice my lifestyle for my career. But there have been many diversions and deadend roads. Now I have the dregs of a dead tumor in my right eye and its more virulent cousin in my liver. And so spirituality is my new primary goal, daily meditation, daily forgiveness of myself, daily private yoga and a new sense of connection with friends and family. Acceptance of the love and beauty that surround me – and always have! Over the next few Sundays, I will indulge in my thoughts and write as part of my healing path. A spiritual path.

Utah by Yeiter

A couple of months ago, I realized what the difference between Soul and Spirit is for me. A definition that makes sense and is useful in my quest, in my daily thoughts and prayers. Let me put in an aside – part of that quest is to accept the language of my childhood. I can now say I believe in God. He (yeah, he for me) is nothing and everything. He is quantum physics (please read Deepak Chopra’s book Quantum Healing) and the sore knee on my right leg. He is the infinite void and the mosquito in my ear, the DNA in all of us.

Soul and Spirit are part of that language – but I freely give them my own definition. Soul is the root, our hidden connection to the universe, the materials and immaterials that make and unify us all. The body and our senses are in between Soul and Spirit, which itself is the combination of all below. The Spirit is who we think we are, who the world thinks we are. It mingles and flies through and around all the world we connect with. It’s the music we make, the love we share, the pain we feel. It changes, it grows. It never dies.

The poem above is my mantra of sorts. I will vamp on it over the next few weeks.

My Spirit Flies

Sticking with Spirit, I offer the first glimpse of my new CD below. A Distant Wind will hopefully be released in early fall, and will carry my spirit afar, with all the deep influences of my ancestors and friends embedded in it. I recorded it in the three days before my first immunotherapy treatment on May 1, 2019. I am proud that this CD features my new 2018 Aaron Green guitar.

from Fünf Kleine Stücke, Basel 1298