A month or so ago, Paul Simon put out a new record1 that has got me thinking. Thinking some thoughts I first began walking around with and writing about on here a couple of years ago, when I called the thoughts I was having “a spiritual search”. A search which led me eventually to time in a monastery, then some with the Quakers, then back on my own.
Well his record, which is thoughtful and recommended, has led me back to that spiritual search. Not expecting, this time, that the searching will ever find a single or simple answer to my wonderings about the meaning and possible purposes of life. But wondering anyway about the life happening around me. As I walk, contemplate and listen to life’s talking, its music, its noises and its silences. In solitude and, occasionally, in company.
I’m beginning another time of silence, of quietly curious searching then, is what I’m saying. Which I’ll be writing about on here. Including, I suspect, some more about that record.
I’m looking forward to it.
“Seven Psalms” Paul Simon, 2023