With time there can grow a confidence in navigating our relationships silently, appreciating the subtleties of body language and enjoying the depth of connection that can come when we do not reduce the world to words.

In Part II, drawing parallels with listening at the hospital, I want to move out into the soundscape, then explore expansive awareness.

In this post, I’d like to explore a vital orientation in contemplative field recording, that of care-full listening.

I’ve never been able to escape a sense that my experience of meaning and fulfilment is bound up with what could be called the spiritual life