Something Like #38: Grounding & Shifting Ground w/ Bitsy Knox

All my life I’ve been afraid of the ground shifting beneath my feet (and not just because I grew up on the Cascadia Subduction Zone); what is it to experience the awesome subterranean power of what lies beneath us? Is this a time to get on all fours, as low to the earth’s curve as you get? Grounding, or earthing, is an alternative therapy that relies on the earth’s electrical charge interacting with our own as a healing process. But what if this process of lowering ourselves to the earth’s surface, to feeling its electricity, its hum, is also a process of reminding ourselves where we stand—and that we stand—on a shared earth, to which we all share the same responsibility.

If none of this makes sense to you, that’s ok. Here’s a bunch of sacred music, a bunch of free jazz, a bunch of clicking and gurgling catharsis that I hope will serve a purpose in the midst of the season of long shadows!

• As ever and forever, thanks to my dearest buddy Julien Meert (Roger 3000) for Something Like’s jingle
• Thank you to Madeline Rose for sharing your poem with us! And thanks to Mayra for putting us in touch <3
• Under my voice today you will hear excerpts from an exceptional album by the Spanish jazz musician Pablo A. Gimenez from 1988, The Work in Progress

p.s. This is an episode dedicated to my home ground, the Pacific Northwest of Canada, where I was lucky enough to spend the month of October amongst old friends and family!