It’s 3:00 am, the first day of 2012. I sit here, apartment quiet, doing some late night computer organizing and listening to “Absent Friends” from Lunasa’s album, Se. I think to myself: I gotta learn that tune – its gorgeous.
As I listen and go through my bookmarks, I come across the website of a dear friend whom I haven’t seen in far too long and drop him a line to say “Happy New Year”. I am aware of a connection between the tune and my impulse to contact my ”absent friend” and I’m quite glad of it.
Those kinds of seemingly random, innocuous connections are around more often than we realize, I think. And they can provide the impulse to act, to reach out, to communicate. Perhaps comforting another. And perhaps that comfort is something we have no way of knowing about until after the fact; it lies dormant, awaiting only the right conditions to come to light. Once it does, it then can become the ground out of which further benefit can grow, the cycle spreading, continuing on and on, touching how many others we don’t know and likely will never know. All of which has its genesis in the smallest of impulses.
May the coming year be full of such innocuous connections.
Peace & Blessings,
J.
