Chaos vs. Control

The space between Chaos and Control: "Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man." -- Fyodor Dostoevsky Last night, I was playing a solo set in a club just outside of Cincinnati. We were nearing the end of the night when, all of a sudden, the lights went out. It was odd; we didn't lose power to the microphones or the PA, but somehow the lighting console had crashed. In that uncertain moment something beautiful happened: The entire crowd began to light the stage with cell phones and cigarette lighters. It was truly magic -- a crowd of strangers knit together in a moment of pure, spontaneous beauty. An unplanned instant of joy born out of chaos. As we sang together in the dark, I began to think about chaos and control. I closed my eyes and remembered the beauty of letting go. This incredible, brilliant flash of joy and transcendence had broken our plans and something far better was born. Have you ever felt the unexpected like that? When your heart beats faster, your lungs tighten, and you brace yourself for the unexpected. Then involuntarily, you begin to smile without knowing that you're smiling, surprised by the dance within the disorder. Well I was smiling like that, singing in the dark with my eyes closed when suddenly, the lights came back on. Like waking from a dream, the connected feeling disappeared. I joked that we should turn 'em back off again, but it's impossible to return to those mom...
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