No. 260: Open-Heart Surgery

When We All Understand

to ask of ourselves

and of others

a "simple" song

Is often to ask 

the equivalent 

of Open-Heart Surgery

in public.

by the severely under-trained.

by the traumatized.

by the innocent.

by the ignorant.

by the precious, the infinitely valuable, the awesomely authentic...

When We All Finally Understand

the World is the operating table 

for our Collective Singing Heart

We will band together to co-create

a sterile, meticulously safe environment

for Heart and Voice to emerge,

to heal,

to grow,

to hemorrhage,

to flat-line,

to be shocked back to life

So we can hold HeArt in gentle hands

Bowing to the mystery of what it means

to be complete 

even

in pieces--

To be together, even as we are separate--

To sing, even as we are silent--

When We All Know the Deepest Way of Loving

Open-Heart Surgery 

is no big deal:

It's just what We Do.  It's just Who We Are.

THIS is Life.  THIS is Love.  THIS is Opera Organically.