In my second, Ethiopia blog I wrote from a place of heartache the at times overwhelming experience encountering and feeling this intensified world within. The feeling is the sadness side of compassion. True sadness. A recognition of shared humanity, feeling the natural inclination to help those who are suffering, from a place of connection. I spoke in my last blog about feeling paralyzed by a cultural condition, the feelings of being a foreigner. Isolation and alienation. What opened this feeling up to the Love that I am and I feel and see within all my family here in Ethiopia. Crying. The tears are very powerful thing. After I ended yesterday’s blog I sat still opened my heart and began to weep. These days if I am not crying the tears of openness and connection something is off. The tears I feel are the tears of everyone, the bridge between our humanity and our limitlessness. The rest of the day followed openly and I brought the self free of the borders of our conditioning open in heart to my family around me, connecting to my fellow musicians from around the world at the table of music and brotherhood. Being moved to the depths of me and realizing the truth the we can change the world through the smallest act of connection.