Farewell to our Sound Sister
Lucy Hibburd,
How does one begin to say goodbye to someone who was never meant to leave so soon? The words feel small, inadequate vessels for the enormity of this loss. Yet here I am, reaching for them anyway, because silence feels like surrender, and you taught me never to surrender.
You were my dear friend. But more than that, you were my sister. Not sister by blood, but sister in the field of sound. Sister in the work of vibration. And sisters of that kind are chosen by something far older than family. They are called together by the universe itself.
May 2021
I close my eyes and I am there still. We had spoken of this event for months, your voice seems still alive with that particular excitement you always carried when you were doing something meaningful. “They need to feel it,” you said. “Not just hear about it. Not just read it in a book. They need to lie down on the earth and let the vibrations move through their bodies.”
You offered your holiday house. Seven souls in total on the 3 days Sound Therapy Training that I was Hosting with you. The memories are still alive; You had brought together future Sound Practitioners in a genuine and authentic setting.
What You Left Behind
You left us too early. I will say that plainly because it is true and because you never appreciated euphemism. There is no “passed on” or “lost” or “no longer with us” that captures the sheer wrongness of your absence. You had more to give. More events to plan and more people to inspire and remind them of their own power(s).
I do not believe in goodbyes. Not really. Sadly, for all of us who knew you the “Higher Power” had other plans for you. But for me you are still singing, Lucy. You are just singing in a register I cannot yet hear.
So I will listen on occasions. And one day, when my own vibration finally transmutes and I join you wherever it is that sound goes when bodies can no longer hold it, I expect you to be there. Waiting. With a circle drawn in the dust and a therapeutic singing bowl.
Until then, my sound sister. Until then.
With all the sound my body can hold,
Your friend Marko