Trusting the Breadcrumb Trail

It started as a whisper.

Not even an idea, really. More of a feeling. A hmmm that showed up one day and would not leave. What if professionally recorded healing music could reach hospital patients through the television system already in their room? What if they could have something beautiful, something human, in a space that so often has neither?

I shared it with people I trusted. Family. Friends. A few colleagues who understood what this work could mean. And something shifted. What had been a quiet thought became a direction.

I do not take credit for that. I believe something larger stepped in.

What followed was a breadcrumb trail. That is the only way I know how to describe it. There was no map. There was only ever the next right step. And then the one after that.

In late June, I sat down with the studio team for a post-production session. We listened. We refined. We made decisions about song selection and sound and all the small details that no one sees but everyone feels. Each one a breadcrumb. Each one leading forward.

Trevor Noah once said, just because the big is happening does not mean that the small stops.

The big, as I see it, is the noise of the world. I made a choice to step back from the news while I am building this. Not out of ignorance. Out of intention. There is something I can actually touch, change, and contribute. Something that may reach a person lying in a hospital bed who has no idea that someone, somewhere, was thinking of them.

The small is Acoustic Healing. And it has not stopped. Not for a single day.

I believe I have connected with something larger than myself through this work. A creative force that was waiting for someone willing to follow the breadcrumbs.

I am following them.

My heart is full.

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