Do you remember these?
It's like a modern day time capsule. For my generation, it was the tape to CD era. I have always loved a mix tape. I remember the dual tape cassette and having to line it up juuuust right, to hit record and catch the song. I had a long distance boyfriend in college and our mix-tape swap were epic. They were stories. They were gifts.
I’d make mixtapes for friends, trips and moods. I have a catalogue of my internal landscape from decades.
It’s not the same as a Spotify list. And I love Spotify lists, but I’ll tell you why. You don’t accidentally find a box of Spotify lists on a rainy Wednesday. You don’t push play on a Spotify list and get surprised.
Can I tell you how surprised I was when some of the songs from my first years of yoga teaching started to play? I could hear my perspective. I could remember sifting though cd’s and poses and taking meticulous care to match them both. It’s not the same as scrolling. It isn’t. You cannot feel it. You aren’t transported in the same way.
I blindly popped in a CD title Abundance (yes, written in sharpie) which was created by one of my fellow graduating classmates of yoga school circa 2004. He made one for each of us as a gift. I was driving my son to school and the songs - oh, the songs, were lovely and they were time lapses.
And then this one popped on:
It was circuitous life reveal—the interweaving circles popped open that one morning, (I’d hit play on the song so this part of the writing makes a lot more sense).
In a time of so much change and uncertainty there was this themed invitation. What would you do if all of God’s love was here for you? That blue-skied morning changed for me, like I said the interweaving threads revealed. The 28 year-old Kate and the 45 year-old Kate were simultaneously present, and then little streams of all the years in between — and a glimpse into the back seat where a being that has only had 4 years of living and what will his soundtrack be? What music are we creating for them?
Because music announces the frequency of the moment - right? Change the song and change your mode. The music of a culture gives you the tenor of the people of the land. The music of an era gives you a glimpse into the terrain the people were growing in and through. Music is a powerful calibrator of our environments.
What are you playing? What is the playlist of your now? What is your twenty-years from now self going to hear in the tune?
In some philosophies the culmination of your life is what you give to others; what you create with what you were given. I think we have snippets in different eras or decades of our life. It’s important, in the hub-hub- to choose the soundtrack and maybe even gift that tune to others that you love.
Looking to change the tracks that are playing? The Everyday Meditation Method begins on June 21st. In the second round, I have added one-on-one session with me to help work through and into creating a routine that works for you, creating spaciousness over anxiousness, and revealing some of the blocks to balance.
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