Clearing (theme song for our year-long bicycle pilgrimage)
Channel: Artist as Family
Date: 2021-07-14

We took Martha Postlethwaite's poem, Clearing, added some instruments and arranged it into song. Thanks Martha, and thanks Nana Jones for sending this poem through to us. This song is the first of a series we'll make on the road over the next twelve months and really establishes some of the intentions for this pilgrimage. Filmed in Djaara and Wadawurrung countries. 

Do not try to save 
the whole world 
or do anything grandiose. 
Instead, create 
a clearing 
in the dense forest 
of your life 
and wait there 
patiently, 
until the song 
that is your life 
falls into your own cupped hands 
and you recognise and greet it. 
Only then will you know 
how to give yourself
to this world 
so worthy of rescue.

Martha Postlethwaite

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