There are places I can go to—woods, rivers,
shorelines, high mountains—where the deep presence of something true arrives
inside me. It often comes from the impossible approach of sounds that are
almost a silence, a mystery. For days,
weeks, months afterward I carry these sounds inside. When the need is strong, I
go to my studio and find ways to bring these sounds back, to share what I can
of the gifts received in these places of power and repose.