The Architecture of the Way — Psalms
This is the distilled core of The Architecture of the Way — not the whole cathedral, only the stones worth setting to music. From the full framework I’ve drawn the ideas with the richest, most livable meaning and rendered each as a psalm. Each psalm carries the same fivefold shape: Parable — a story that stages the turn, and stops. Essence — the idea, described whole. Haiku — the meaning compressed to its seed. Image — a visual that carries the essence. Music — twenty-three pieces, now recorded. The parables are folded shut. Open one before you read the essence beneath it, or don’t — they carry no moral and explain nothing, and they are meant to be met cold. ...