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The Lake Where Flowers Grow Pt. 1

from A Place Where Flowers Grow by The Ocean Floor

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When I was a young boy Stevie Wonder's soundtrack to the film "The Secret Life of Plants" mesmerized me. I discovered the book it was based on, by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, around age 20 and my world was turned upside down. I finally discovered the beauty of the plant kingdom and had faith in their consciousness (for lack of a better word). This song is an homage to Mr. Wonder, Tompkins, and Bird and it is a story that takes place in a setting first described to me in another of Tompkins' non-fiction works, "Mysteries of the Mexican Pyramids."
Xochimilco is translated from the Aztec Nahautl language as "Place Where Flowers Grow." Here a chinampa, or floating garden, dreams of an axolotl because they have inhabited the same space at different times. The axolotl also dreams of the chinampa. They have the same home. Do you believe you leave behind any sort of anything when you leave a place you have called home? Maybe it's that same little piece of the garden that called out to the little piece of the axolotl.

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from A Place Where Flowers Grow, released April 28, 2015

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