No. 374: If On(e)ly We Can Be...

If On(e)ly We Can Be

What Voice Teaches Us to See(ng)

We Heal.

We Love.

We Feel.

We Be. 

THIS is Life. THIS is Love. THIS is From the Heart Singing. 

No. 373: Perhaps listening...

Perhaps listening
The ability to HEAR

Have
Empathy
And
Respond (in a loving way)

Is directly proportional
To the knowledge
Or lack of knowledge
Of our Own Voice.

Hmmmmmmmmm...

THIS is Life.  THIS is Love.  THIS is From the Heart Singing.

No. 372: Tell Me to be quiet.

Tell Me to be quiet
And I will erupt
Into a tornado-storm
Of long-silenced Song.

But...

Show me a sleeping Baby:
The Eye of My Heart
And I will sit silent
Til She wakes to Heavenly Music
That has no sound.

(Finding Voice is about Relationship. The sooner we know this, the more we truly enrich Life around Us.)

THIS is Life.  THIS is Love.  THIS is From the Heart Singing.  

No. 371: Voice WILL THREATEN you.

The Greater US
Is never threatened
By Voice.

The Greater US
Celebrates and recognizes
Every Voice.

When we are threatened
By Another's Voice
It is an invitation:

STEP IN TO YOUR COMPLETE SOUND.

Are you running away?

Or are You showing up?


THIS is Life.  THIS is Love.  THIS is From the Heart Singing.

No. 370: THIS is BLISS.

Showing SomeOne the Way of Voice
When There Seems to Be None...

AND. FINDING. IT?

...

THIS. IS. BLISS.

It's Also Life.  It's Love.  It's From the Heart Singing.  YEAH.

No. 369: Paths of Light and Life

Perhaps many would agree

There are Paths Which Compound Life

and Paths Which Whither It.

From the Heart School of Singing

Is Committed to Being 

Forging

Building

Becoming

Strengthening

Brightening

Intensifying

ALL

That Is

Light 

and 

Life.

Through This Commitment, This Promise, 

We

Therefore

Become

Most

Like 

SONG:

Perhaps the Greatest 

Teacher/Path

Of ALL.

THIS is Life.  THIS is Love.  This is From the Heart Singing.

No. 368: Life-Enriching Education

There is a Way of Living
A Way of Singing

That leaves Space
For the Thriving

Of EVERY Voice.

But It Asks for EveryThing
ALL of US
And Won't Stop
Until We're Burning
In the Fire

of LOVE.

THIS is Life.  THIS is Love. THIS is From the Heart Singing.

No. 367: If You Love MY Voice

If you love my Voice

You love Your Own.

You just 

Might

Not

Know yet

HOW.

But stick with It

Hang around awhile

And Love will permeate You too

With Music PERSONIFIED.

THIS is Life.  THIS is Love.  THIS is From the Heart Singing.   

No. 366: Ain't Nothin' Like It.

When We Say YES
To WhatEver Voice Is
And Allow It Through Us
Completely

There Ain't Nothin' Like It

Except
MayBe
Being Breathed
Being Loved
Being As Free
As We Can
In a Body

Being Connected
Being Flowed
Being
Clear-ly
WE.

AHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhoooooooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmm (*yum*)

THIS is Life.  THIS is Love.  THIS is From the Heart Singing.

No. 365: I will fail you.

AN OPEN LETTER TO ALL FROM THE HEART SINGERS:


I will fail you.
And if I haven't yet, I will--don't worry! You won't be left out.
Any Teacher worth Her Salt
Will admit this
If She's brave.


But...guess what saves me?  Guess what catches me when I
Fall
Face
First
Into imperfection?


Guess
What
Saves
Us
All?


VOICE.


Voice will never fail us.
Has never failed has.
Does not
fail
us.

I. Am. Living. Proof. Of. This. FACT.

(I hope
you are all beginning
to feel this LIFE
in you, too...
The Gift of Love
You are giving
To You)

No matter what we do
No matter what we don't do--
No matter what we think
No matter what others think of us...

Voice has got us.
Voice has got us.
Voice has got us.

I PROMISE.

And to dedicate From the Heart School
To the Infinite Depth
Of This TRUTH

Is a tiny,
Incomplete Way
To repay
This Grace

Even If Voice
Has All S/He needs
Without
Our
Help.

I Love You All
In the imperfection of my incompleteness.

WOW It's a Trip:
This Path
Through the Heart
Of Voice

Ain't It?


Yours Always--Perfectly Incomplete,

Rebecca Fromherz

No. 363: It's like Heaven

For a True Singer

One Who has to Sing

To Understand Life

Finding Complete Voice

Feels Like Stepping in

To Heaven.

There Is Nothing Like It

This Heavenly Realm

Where Most Things

Can Only Be Sung

With ALL of Us.

We Speak a Language

Of Cultured Beasts

Learning Ancient Translations

Of the Singer's Book of Life

Striving to Give Civilized Birth

To a Power Strong Enough

To Consume Us.

Heaven Is Walking the Singer's Path

And Arriving Home

In One Piece.

This is LIFE. This is Love. This is From the Heart Singing.

No. 362: I. Am Not. A Singer.

I
Am not
A Singer.

In as much
As my being
"A Singer"
Takes away
The inherent
Be-YOUty
Of Y/Our
Expression
Of Voice.

So then

What Am I

If Not

A Singer?

I Am a Teller of Stories
A Feeler of Feelings
A Believer of Thoughts
A Transcender of Conditionings

I Am
A Holder of Hands
A Mover of Feet
A HeartBeat
A Breath
A Life
A Death.

I Am All These Things
Just As Are You.

And When You Hear Y/OurSelf Singing
In the Midst of This Universal Being...

MayBe Then
We Can Hear
The Truth of Our Unity:

There Cannot Be One
Without The Other

I Cannot
Will Not
Sing

Without Knowing
To the Core of US
The Be-YOUty
Of OUR

Song.


THIS is Life.  THIS is Love.  THIS is From the Heart Singing.

No. 361: If You're MAD

If you're MAD

On this Path of Voice

...

CELEBRATE!

Anger, stress, craziness, sadness: these are all Signposts

That Voice is nigh.

And if It makes You

MORE MAD

To think of celebrating your madness

...

GET MADDER

And sadder

More hopeless

And stressed

Till One Day You Look at You

And see only the vibration

Of what's left

After You've Voiced

All 

You thought

Was keeping You silent...

...

And then CELEBRATE 

Again...and again...

And again.

THIS is Life. THIS is Love.  THIS is From the Heart Singing.

No. 360: It's not about not caring...

Singing isn't about not caring what other people think of Our Voice.  Even a Bird cares if her True Soulmate is listening and how.

Singing IS about caring what a select Few think of Our Voice:

These Few are the Mystics and Healers

The Writers and Feelers...

The Birds and the Trees

The StoryTellers who See

US:

Heart 

Mind

Soul

Passion

Emotion

Experience

Spirit

Energy

Love

Life

One and complete...

THEY are the Ones Whose Opinions We Seek

Even 

Before 

We are ever

Heard.

THIS is Life. THIS is Love. THIS is From the Heart Singing.  

No. 359: Where there is Life...

Where there is Life
There is Voice.

It's an Amazing Place to Be.

THIS is Life.  THIS is Love.  THIS is Opera Organically--From the Heart School of Singing.

No. 358: There are as many ways...

There are as many ways

To Voice

As there are people.

But there is only One Signpost

That You Are on the Right Way 

for You:

Peace.

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

No. 357: So you say...

So you say

You have "no Voice" 

But 

What

Just

Said

THAT?

Welcome to the Love of Your Life. 

(If You Let It Be.)

No. 356: Self-Confidence.

Self-Confidence is Voice-Confidence.

When We begin to Experience

This in Depth

The World becomes Our Oyster

Our True Lives

The Pearl.

No. 355: It's no One's business

It's no One's business

But Yours

How long It takes You

To Find Voice.

Live the Power of THAT 

And You Will Know

Voice has found YOU

Already.

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

No. 354: On Intensity

Intensity Is a Tricky Thing:

We cannot Know Voice 

Without It

Yet

It's Seldom Pretty

'Till We Acknowlege It

And

It Takes Every Part of Us

Every Extra Thought From Us

That Is Not It

Away

On the Wind 

Of Truth

Of Love

Of Power

Of Light.

When We've Enjoyed THAT Ride

For a Little While

We Will Experience

The Subtle Soft 

YES

Of

Intensity...

Knowing a Loudness

Akin to the Most Tender

Whisper.

Yet Another Paradox!

Ah, Beautiful Song!!

No. 353: Beneath every instruction

Beneath every instruction 

Is the foundational question:

Does this serve Voice?

If the answer is yes you know.

If it's not you keep searching.

This Is the Ultimate Reminder

That It's Not All About Us--

And yet It Is.

There is incredible possibility 

In paradox.

No. 352: No Real Escape

There is No Real Escape

From Life

From Love

From Being Sung

No. 351: Ain't It Great?

Ain't It Great

That as Voice Finds Clarity Through Us

Life Seems to, too...?

That Is, if You Are a Singer:

If You're You.

No. 350: There Is.

There Is a Singing that is Expansive even in Silence (It holds an Ever-new Definition of "Loudness"--a Decibel Scale of Delight). This Is the Singing I serve. 

No. 349: The Danger

The danger in teaching Voice
Is in teaching It as if
It Is something
We know
When

In Deepest

Truest Experience

It Is SomeThing Knowing Us.

Hmmm....

X-Files? Only if You want it to be.

Magic? For sure.

Miracle? I don't know...try it! You. Tell. Me. 

No. 348: Fiercely Loved.

Voice is a Being

Voice is a Doing

Voice is Experience.

The degree to which

This Being-ness, this Doing-ness, this Experience IS

Fiercely Loved

Is the Degree to which

We

Are

Free,

The degree to which we are sung,

The degree to which

We

Sing.

No. 347: Being Voice

Being Voice 

Is Trusting

Her Power  Lives

Even

And Especially

In Silence.

No. 346: Go On(e)ly to the Trees