CxD #236: Most beautiful + inspiring conversation and song🎶 of the year
I had all sorts of topics lined up for this issue but I put all of them on hold so as to highlight one and only one true thing: the most impactful and meaningful conversation I had the blessed good fortune to listen to this year. Source
A cursory glance at Roland Griffith’s bio below makes it seem like the conversation is about meditation and psychedelic use, and it is about those things on the most literal plot level. But it’s actually about something much more: the miracle of genuine curiosity and surrender and the immense gratitude and joy that arises from an authentic life of practicing to open our hearts and minds and our attitude toward the miraculous gift of life.
Now ask yourself: if you found out today that you only had a few months left to live, how would you feel?
The way Roland Griffiths deals with this unforeseen turn in his life is inspirational to me beyond words; this conversation truly helped recalibrate my heart and mind at year’s end.
I cannot overstate how powerful and moving this conversation is. Please consider giving it your full attention.
Or if you use Overcast for your podcasts, the conversation lives: https://overcast.fm/+Kebt1b7mY
The obvious soundtrack and song to the above conversation:
OK?
Change, like the wind
Like the water, like skin
Change, like the sky
Like the leaves, like a butterfly
Would you live forever, never die
While everything around passes?
Would you smile forever, never cry
While everything you know passes?
Death, like a door
To a place we've never been before
Death, like space
The deep sea, a suitcase
Would you stare forever at the sun
Never watch the moon rising?
Would you walk forever in the light
To never learn the secret of the quiet night?
Still, like a stone
Like a hill, like home
Still, what I find
Is you are always on my mind
Could I feel happy for you
When I hear you talk with her like we used to?
Could I set everything free
When I watch you holding her the way you once held me?
Change, like the sky
Like the leaves, like a butterfly
Death, like a door
To a place we've never been before
Would you live forever, never die
While everything around passes?
Would you smile forever, never cry?
Bonus: my son bunk just turned 13 and needed a nap from all the celebration! Evidence of his needed recovery:
