EPISODE · Jul 23, 2025 · 12 MIN
WAKING BLUE -- An Original Piano Composition by Alexander Blue Feather
from Viral Mindfulness the Podcast · host Alexander Smith | Mindfulness Teacher
Meet the piano piece that’s been with me most of my life. In this solo episode, I share the story behind Waking Blue. A song I began composing at age 13, long before I had language for who I was becoming. From Beethoven to Salt Lake City, from Ensign Peak to Southern California, this melody carried me through moves, grief, queerness, and awakening. Waking Blue is a piece about impermanence and memory, about the moment (and years) before we fully wake up. I offer the 2011 studio version here: played on a Steinway, wrapped in decades of life. May it meet you in your own season of becoming.
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Meet the piano piece that’s been with me most of my life. In this solo episode, I share the story behind Waking Blue. A song I began composing at age 13, long before I had language for who I was becoming. From Beethoven to Salt Lake City, from Ensign Peak to Southern California, this melody carried me through moves, grief, queerness, and awakening. Waking Blue is a piece about impermanence and memory, about the moment (and years) before we fully wake up. I offer the 2011 studio version here: played on a Steinway, wrapped in decades of life. May it meet you in your own season of becoming.
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