The creative universe that has given rise to the world as we know it is dynamic, interdependent, and deeply mysterious. In this series of one minute videos, I invite you to slow down and return for a moment to the Ground of Creativity, the Ground of Creativity that supports the world we experience, the Ground of Creativity that is always at play, the Ground of Creativity that has given rise to each and every one of us.
In this clip, filmed midway up the switchbacks of the Pines to Palms highway, a remarkable stretch of highway that drops one down from the forested mountains of the southern leg of the Sierra Nevada’s down into the arid rain shadow of the Coachella Valley, watch the movement of cars and trucks as they grind and putter along the flanks of the desiccated landscape, their internal combustion engines ringing out into the vast space all around, a jet plane eventually entering the soundscape to lend its voice to the roar of white noise.