Monthly Archives: September 2025

Learning and desiring to become a tender soul

Recent flowing thoughts ..

The tenderness that lives in silence — I am slowly discovering that tenderness moves in two directions: one that extends outward, and one that gathers inward. What I long to learn is this inward-turning tenderness, the quiet beauty of receiving.

In music, my wish is for tenderness to reach outward, to touch the hidden depths of another’s inner world. For me, tenderness is warmth, and also the courage to be vulnerable.

I want to learn the tenderness within my own soul and within music — and how it weaves itself into the vast vast vast universe of our hearts