"Quietude" and Southwest 770
06/28/2010
It’s just a few minutes since the flight attendant announced the aircraft had reached ten-thousand feet and we “can use portable electronic devices.” I immediately grabbed my laptop and my iPod. With the Bose earphones in place and the laptop warming up, I began to listen to the 9th cut on the CD “Migration” featuring Peter Kater and Carlos Nakai.
I believe it was February 1992 when I first heard “Quietude,” my former wife and I were visiting beautiful Sedona, Arizona. Sedona is full of gift shops and galleries and the town is surrounded by some of the most truly unbelievable scenic venues. While tooling through one of the shops I heard the most wonderful sounds coming from the speakers throughout it. It was this CD and it was this song. I thought it to be the most beautiful music I had ever heard. It lifted me up and transported me into another dimension, into another world. Some years later I found the CD in a store and scuffed it up. I have had it well over ten years and have enjoyed it countless times, and each time I can feel the emotion creep over me – it is that beautiful. Even now as the notes enter my ears for the third time since I put the earphones on, this utterly magnificent piece has me on the verge of tears of inconceivable joy.
It is a gorgeous day to fly. It is The Best Day Ever. The vast blue skies are filled with huge cotton-ball shaped clouds, the earth lay below them, and it is “Quietude” for the fourth time. This music has to have been inspired by God (much to the chagrin of some non-acknowledgers of the Universal Presence some of us refer to as “God”), the spiritual aspect of it is beyond what I can imagine any human capable of creating alone. I so wish I could share it with you as you read this, for this music will bring piece to your heart.
It is time to finish this and hit the replay button one more time. I want to enjoy every note, every key stroke. I want to suck it in as I commune with the Universal Presence some people refer to as God.
And that is all I have to say about that…