I had wondered what the ‘experiential chord’ would be on this trip – or at least the first part of it; arriving for the first time in this vast continent of Australia to spend most of January with my eldest son, our daughter-in-law, and our granddaughter, Alice, now sixteen months old.

‘Experiential chord’ is how I think of what experience does to you, for you, as it assembles the parts of what’s happening into a meaningful theme; much as a guitarist puts together multiple notes to create a chord, which has power and harmony combined, and makes the perfect basis for the song to be laid over it.

The song, in this case, is a very unexpected lesson in perception. The chord is an unfolding of day by day delight in seeing a young soul come to terms with her relationship with her universe: full of newness, full of wonder, full of Being-in-the-moment.

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