Ronja, my friend from way back in Assisi days, wrote this to me a few days ago:
Hi! So I think it’s time… Could you, as a talented musician, please share your favorite 20 seconds of Swami’s or Master’s music? I’m getting a little tired of Happy Birthday twice and Yankee Doodle isn’t really that uplifting either….😉🙃
To be honest it took a few moments for me to make the connection and realize she was looking for music to time her hand-washing by! But then I totally got it, because I had experienced the same frustration of wanting to sing something uplifting while washing my hands but not knowing how much of any particular song or chant would take up 20 seconds. I usually ended up counting “one thousand, two thousand, three thousand…” instead!
I’m happy to say that Ronja’s request was the catalyst for Ramesha and me to create this short (and hopefully fun) little video. We’ll be sharing it more widely via social media tomorrow, but I wanted to mention it in today’s blog post because…well, I feel pretty good about it! 💖