An exploration of adulthood which considers the roles of ritual, history, structure and radiance in relational presence to restore culture, leadership, and human coherence.

A meditation on the meaning and value of elderhood as a demographic stage, as well as a quality of presence, wisdom, humility, and relational grounding that transcends age. These are the emotional and spiritual anchors for the piece; a premise for deepening wise leadership.

If dignity is life’s native dress - the auric garment of self-respect and rooted in belonging - it is also the taproot of the great oak of reverence. Then irony, grief’s own disease, is the drought that cracks the soil; the snap that breaks branch from trunk of tree. Mirth is what lives beneath the shade and sway of the oak. Or what does not.

Sound that loses its elegance loses its significance. Yet it is no simple matter for the willing heart to well and truly feel and permit it clean motion through a body just because it is a human imperative to do so.