This is the best. I wrote this song with my great friend Donna. We were living in South Fallsburg, NY in a wonderful bungalow and all we did was write songs, record them and preform for the various courses that came through the Academy. I told Donna I wanted to write a song about the beginning of creation and some effect of that. She was reading the “Hollow Hills” King Arthur trilogy at the time and in a very romantic state of mind. I had all these books from the Rig Veda spread open and was reading and taking notes on the story of creation – mostly from the 10th Mandala. Meanwhile she was playing a very wistful tune on the piano and singing words right from the book. It was so funny, I remember she was singing about the bleating of the lambs and the mists on the hill but she was really creating what was to end up as one of the most beautiful melodies we ever finished together. I started plugging in words to her melody and soon she was on the floor with me as we wrote and re-wrote until we had it. We had recently started playing with Daniel and his haunting cello added the infinity to the ever present point value. We wrote this song in 1976 and it is the song I have sung the most over all the years. It never fails to inspire and elevate me and remind me that we are all the same. I will always be over-the -top grateful for DD reading the Hollow Hills and sometimes still chuckle over those lambs on the misty hills!

This song is very special to me. It was the last song I sang live for Maharishi in India in 1988 and it was truly one of those defining moments. I was on the Pioneers course for 2 months where we had wonderful lectures from Dr. Triguna ji, Balraj Maharishi, Dr. Raju, many Jyotishi’s and of course Maharishi ji. There were 3 amazing days of talks from Him which got me to writing a new song. It was funny because this was probably the only course I had ever gone to without taking my guitar. I ended up singing a lot on this course which was a surprise to me. Dr Uli, the course leader, borrowed a guitar for me so I could sing at the end of the evening meetings. I was very honored to sing for all the great leaders mentioned above. Then I started writing this song, Light at the Door. My roommate, Wendy and I had some good laughs over  me writing this in a couple of days…singing it constantly. Then, the morning I finished the song, we were in the lecture hall and I was hoping to sing it. Maharishi gave such a beautiful talk that day and sent everyone off the stage to give roses to all the cps. At that moment, I was standing next to Dr. Uli, who had planned on my singing and we just knew ..no..this was not the time. So I hid the guitar behind my back and just stood there waiting for my rose. Then I heard Maharishi say, ” Do you have a song?” I was amazed…it was just like when I first started singing for Him. I said yes and He said to come up. I sat so close to him with no one else around…it was very quiet and special. I was trying to set up to see my words and I remember Doug Hening hoped up on the stage to help me. He was a dear friend and a great guy! He held the words for me so I could see them and play. When I finished,  Maharishi just looked at me and said something very sweet and then…”Now we should go and do what the song says and close our eyes!”  And that was the last time I sat right next to my beloved teacher and sang these words to Him.