This book by Bruce Springsteen continues to move me. I seem to read a couple of pages and then put it down. And then let myself be moved by the story in my day to day. I love his artist journey that he describes. And some big wisdom. I love his reflecting back to the days when it wasn’t so clear.
From p 299…
“I want the music to feel like a waking dream and to move like poetry.”
Yah, I’m connecting that to group facilitation. And retreats. And little pockets of reflection. I want the gathering to feel like a waking dream and to move like poetry. A dream has surrender in it. To what flows. Poetry so often has ease to it. And simplicity.
From p 300…
“All popular artists get caught between making records and making music. If you’re lucky, sometimes it’s the same thing.”
Yup again. I’ve entered a phase (I think it will take me all the way home) of making music. Cultivating becoming. Deepening belonging. Hosting myself and others in flow. And in the deep claiming that so many humans wish. I’ve done my share of making events. I’ve also been lucky — making events while making the music of intuition and insight, story and Circle, purpose and practice.
So, thx Bruce Springsteen.
