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!
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