Untold Stories

Thank you for being a part of the David Darling newsletter. I have received some very kind mail for our ongoing efforts to share David’s music and inspirations. It has been for me an attempt to give back to this community some of the blessings that I have received through the years of collaboration. The synchronicities that have accompanied certain leaps of faith are now embedded in these ongoing stories.

I would often visit David during the years I travelled for the Jean Houston Mystery School. On this particular visit, David had just been given the gift of an Udu drum. Intrigued by the possibilities, he began experimenting with the sounds and rhythms he could create and the experience became trance like. The sound itself seemed to be coming from long ago and we could both feel it reaching into our bodies. I recorded it for a while and then we left it as that, a deep experience we had shared. Some 16 years later while exploring what music to include on the Prayer For Compassion album, David and I revisited this earlier recording and found it still had the power we remembered.

The album Prayer for Compassion was just that for us, a prayer. The piece “Untold Stories” was David’s way of asking for us to use the strength of our compassion while not forgetting our histories. In “Untold Stories,” he offers this to us all.

With Love,
Mickey

Philo Thoughts

October 28 at 1:59 AM

You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thiinks that he is alone. This is why art is important. Art would not be important if we’re not important, and life is important.

-James Baldwin

(Book: Conversations with James Baldwin)