Yeah, yeah.
I think one of the great pleasures of any collaboration,
any artistic collaboration, is that your collaborator will
always be bringing a slightly different perspective
from the perspective that you have, and will
be drawn to different questions, and see things
in different ways.
And I think that is even more true, often I find,
when I'm working with these autistic writers, the ways
that they see the world are definitely
slightly different from the way that I see the world.
And there's such an amazing power
of noticing that I think comes up in a lot of these songs,
just a real fine attunement to the environment,
to the energies of all of the different people,
and creatures and even inanimate objects in a space.
This is a song called Seven-Leaf Clover
by a writer named Dustin, that is about the power of noticing.
[SEVEN-LEAF CLOVER, DUSTIN DUBY-KOFFMAN]
(SINGING) Look under that rock, I get close to the ground.
You're in for a shock, there's life to be found.
And surprises tend to pop when we take the time to stop.
With the passion for the hunt, we
can let ourselves be stunned.
Peek into that hole.
Get lost in that field.
Say hi to the mole, that's wonder you feel.
And surprises tend to pop when we take the time to stop.
Every path can bring us wows, if every moment we seize now.
A seven-leaf clover, a face in the bark.
A mushroom umbrella, a leaf, Noah's Ark.
A sprout in the dirt, a smooth acorn.
A small tuft of fur, a pollen rainstorm.
And surprises tend to pop, when we take the time to stop.
All the heroes of the woods live in all our neighborhoods.
And every path can bring us wows, if every moment we
seize now.
With the passion for the hunt, we
can let ourselves be stunned.
Woo hoo.
Mm, so good.
Oh, love that list in that bridge.
A seven-leaf clover, a face in the bark,
a mushroom umbrella, a leaf, Noah's Ark,
a sprout in the dirt, a smooth acorn, a small tuft of fur,
a pollen rainstorm.
So good.
Oh.