Wednesday, October 3, 2012

No. 203: On the "Spewage of True Experience"



One of the reasons I believe so few of us
reach the place where we know
beyond the shadow of a doubt
that we have found our True Voices 
is that we are often taught
that to express the distress we can feel
as singing students is unacceptable,
unprofessional, and not at all 
a part of the process 
of emptying OurSelves to make space
for Voice.

I say quite the opposite.

In fact, herewith I SCREAM 
in the most 'unacceptable' expression of Voice
that any and all spewage of True Experience
which carves out a new expanse 
in the space of Mind, Heart,
and Voice, is not only acceptable,
it's welcome for eternity.
For ETERNAL is the kind of Art
we CAN give Voice to, the kind of Art 
 we CAN sing.

How can we sing of the stuff 
that makes us human
if we deny 
even
One
Part 
of 
US? 

Singers around the world, we are doing much more
than making pretty sounds.

We are changing the world, inside and out.

Our singing is not antiquated or separate 
from what it is to be human.

Our singing, because of its very transformative nature,
is making us MORE and MORE human 
until, one day, we experience Voice
in a Way Which blurs all boundaries between us,
transcends all ideas of judgement,
and offers a permanent place
where Voice,
whole and real, and absolutely free,
smiles, lovingly, at the WE
who used to
deny It.


Monday, October 1, 2012

No. 202: The Greatest Challenge



The Greatest Challenge
in the Singer's Life
is to Take Responsibility
for ALL that has come
to Her and through Her 
on the path to Voice.

This can be HARD

As we wonder at the Purpose
hiding behind the hell
of swallowed Voice,
the sweat and the tears
which lead to a Freedom
that seems to've been taken away.

Why is this Taking Responsibility
Important?
Why NOT live in a world 
of victimhood where Voice
has been "taken away"?

Why NOT live as a "Non-Singer" 
even as the longing to sing
pulses just beyond
the despair lodged in our throats?

Because
WE MUST CLAIM OUR POWER
in order to change the World
from a place where it is possible
to destroy Voice
to a place where Voice
is honored, treasured, and 
fully, holistically, understood.

We must say, with all our Be-ing:
THERE IS ANOTHER WAY
and it IS POSSIBLE to choose It!

This shift from victimhood
happens as we singers proclaim
what we WANT, in our deepest Hearts:

Freedom, Sincerity,
Hope, Joy, BLISS,
Energy, Aliveness, Good-Will,
Purpose, Connection,
Belief, Understanding,
Compassion, LOVE.

We want to SING!
...and, most of all,
to know that we have been singing
all along...
especially
when we thought 
we couldn't
or shouldn't
or never ever
would.

Taking responsibility for every Voiceless Moment
in our Lives
allows us to see Voice
even in choked Silence.

THIS VOID IS WHERE TRANSFORMATION BEGINS.

The floodgates begin to crack
Hearts open
once retracted
and LOVE POURS THROUGH
as sounds of human divinity.

THIS is Life,
THIS is Love.
THIS is Opera Organically!