No. 335: You. Are. Magnificent.

No. 334: It is not enough.

It is not enough

to SAY

"Singing is good for us"

Like we say

"Peace is good for us"

Without the possibility

of a WAY

to Voice...

a WAY

to Peace.

Opera Organically is a Way to Voice

(and, in a Way, for a Singer, to Peace)

But, like Peace, we gotta choose Voice--

and know

It's.Chosen.Us.

...

THIS is Life.  THIS is Love,

THIS is Opera Organically.

No. 333: Awe and Wonder

If your singing voice

does not inspire

Awe and Wonder within You

You probably haven't found It yet.

Keep searching:

I believe in You.

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

No. 332: How to Start a Conversation With Voice

Voice is like a sweet puppy 

waiting in a corner

for us to wake up.

Most of us don't even see her:

We 'know s/he doesn't exist.'

Some of us see him, but

We've 'heard s/he's bad.'

Still others of us see a monster instead:

'Sing?! I'd rather be dead.'

But if we'd just wait...

and enjoy the Wonder

of being chosen by such a Sweet Beast

We'd want to do anything possible 

to understand It.

We'd Love It,

Come to know It...

That's when the real Magic begins.

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

No.331: Voice has a Quiet Dignity

Voice has a Quiet Dignity

an All-Being-ness

an All-Seeing-ness.

It's startling in It's Grounded-ness,

in It's Inherent Electric Power.

It Is Our HONOR

to Be in It's Presence:

the Epic Story of Humanity

Is the Quest to Be One with It.

And when S/he chuckles with gentle mirth

at our search for Her 

as S/he dances All Around

and In Us

We hear His sweet laughter 

weaving amongst the heArtbeats 

and breaths 

of Our Life's Flowing Blood.

And if We Are Lucky

before we die

We can Live Knowing

We Are S/he...

S/he Is It...

We.Are.It.

Smiling in the Dignity of Life 

together.

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

No. 330: Are we thinking like Voice...?

I am watching the German film Hannah Arendt:

the story of the famous philosopher

and her coverage of the Adolf Eichmann trial in Jerusalem.

At a turning point in the story Hannah writes:

"Das Böse wird gemeinhin als etwas Dämonisches betrachtet,

Eichmann aber kann man beim besten Willen

keine teuflisch-dämonische Tiefe abgewinnen,

er war nur unfähig zu denken."

"Evil is commonly regarded as something demonic, 

but in the case of Eichmann

one could find no such trace of satanic 'greatness',

he was only incapable of thinking."

(my emphasis)

Another title for this post could be:

Awareness of the Great Voice Holocaust.

For with the deepest respect

for my friends, for myself, and for all of humanity
with our ties to all holocausts past and present
which steal Our Earthly Bodies

there is another
certainly related
yet far more deeply hidden
international concentration camp of the soul
which steals Voices.

It is disingenuous, surreptitious.
It creeps up on us in the dark:
It whispers "Go into hiding..."
it yells "SHUT UP"
says "don't even start..."

It draws us into an alternate reality
of definitions
pointing fingers
loneliness
and stares

An unchallenged reality which sneaks into collective thought

telling us some are worth more than others

and mine...?

It must not

be worthy of Life, be worthy of BE-ing.

BE/A/WARE 

where Voices are silenced in the soul

so also They Are 

in the body.

WE ARE THE ANTIDOTE TO THIS MADNESS.

And so, even in the Land of the Free

I stand, a Mother Bear, on the top of the nearest mountain and scream

Every Moment let me BE like Voice!

Let me think like Voice!

Let me LOVE like Voice!

EVEN, and ESPECIALLY, for those who have been silenced.

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

No. 329: "Don't hurt yourself..."

Keep searching.

Keep searching.

Keep digging beyond the "fears"

with which our culture frames your singing.

The singing that is One

with YOU

is beyond pain

beyond hurt

beyond fear.

Don't stop singing 'til you find this Place

then keep singing 'til the Whole World 

knows IT.

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