No. 388: Grace Is...

Grace Is

Allowing Us

(OurSelves)

The Rights

The Paths

The Chances

To Grow

Free from the Shame

Of What We Thought We Were

Before We Knew

Differently.

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

No. 387: Peace Is...

Peace Is

Where Life and Song

Intersect

In an Endless Stream 

Of Unconditional Love.

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

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No. 386: I'm a Minor Miner

When I'm doin' My Job right

I'm jus' chippin' away 

At all the stuff

That ain't Voice

Gettin' dusty an' messy

Gettin' hungry an' tired

Gettin' sassy an' whiny

Truth be told

BUT

When I see Gold Dust

And Rivers of Love Flow

Once We've-a hit 

The Mother Lode

I jus' stop in my tracks

Put down all my Tools

Fall on my knees

And cry in gratitude

For the grace to be so bold

In a world that'd often rather

Cover 

Us

Up

Than let Us, All Shiny,

Be: Treasures TOLD. 

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

No. 385: I will stay

I will stay awake
And let
My Heart
Stretch

Til it FEELS
The pain of loss

And the pain it must take
To make
Someone kill

Voice
Body
Heart
(no matter the color of Love)

Will create in Me a Vessel

A heaven-shaped infinite well
That's large enough to hold
Every story of hell

As it dissolves into tears
Into empathic, fluid Truth:
The messy, real stuff of Authenticity
Which does not stop
At fear.

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

In infinite Memory of all those suffering attacks of hatred.  Love wins.  On(e)ly Love.

No. 384: Be very kind

Be very kind

And gentle

With those who say

You have no voice.

For in fact

These poor souls 

Think Life

Is about putting people

In boxes

Rather than opening

Delightful gifts

Moment 

By Moment.

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

No. 383: Secret Stun-Gun of Love

Having a fully-formed From the Heart voice

Is like having a secret stun-gun of Love

At your disposal 24/7.

It's quite a lovely feeling.

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

No. 382: To Give Voice

To Give Voice is a Wonderful Thing: a Being of Immeasurable Meaning.

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

No. 381: A House of Incredible Splendor

Guiding a Person to their Complete Expression of Voice
Is like holding the hand of a Most Precious Friend
Who,
Once Wearing a Blindfold,
Is amazed at the Utter Beauty (A House of Incredible Splendor--A Home of Infinite Bliss)
That's been in Her All Along
Even before the Unveiling.

...even, before, S/He see(ng)s.


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

No. 380: The case of the Mysterious TumTum

Today in hot yoga I mis-identified my own tummy.

It the steamy heat of the third posture, I looked in the mirror and thought:

What a Nice Tummy She Has!

It is strong and defined...it probably supports her back well!

Look at that waist! An hourglass!

And then

I realized

It 

Was 

Me! 

COOL!

😊

But what does this have to do with singing, you may ask?

Well, it's about Trusting the Process.

Hot yoga, like singing, is a Path to developing the Self 

Spiritually, mentally, physically and emotionally.

 

On all these different planes we live out our search for Voice.  

Sometimes on the Path it can seem we are taking FOREVER to get anywhere...

But it's the every day commitment to a process 

That helps us become, sometimes mysteriously even to us,

Who We Really Can Be. 

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

No. 379: From the Heart Reflection 1

Recommended for Mr. Rogers Fans in Particular :) (like moi).

https://youtu.be/kQ-UC-TY5Zg

No. 378: Thank You.

...When I even THINK of teaching singing, 

an emotion wells up inside me akin to wonder...

to childlike curiosity...

so close to joy it feels like I need to hold it close to my chest 

like an endangered butterfly.  

Then I let it go, 

and Bliss leaks out my eyes 

'til all of me vibrates with the resonance of Love 

coming to Life. 

Thank You. Thank You. Thank You. (WhoEver You Are...)

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

No. 377: Guaranteed Weirdness.

On the Way to Your Own Voice
There's Gonna Be

~Guaranteed~

Weirdness
Newness
Oddities
Crudeness
Wonkiness
and
Downright BLECH--

Or at least
So It Seems

For a Creature Who's Growing
From Deep Down Deep
Cannot Know Anything
But Darkness

Until She Sees What's Not.

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

376: More of Us would Know...

...More of Us would know We have Voice

if We we were taught 

To have the Courage

to step TOWARD

ALL emotion.

Think of the deepest, 

"Darkest" 

Scariest emotion

You could ever

FEEL.

If You think I'm crazy

I would tell You

Your Voice may

Have some surprises for You

Yet.

*psssssssssst* (open your treasure chest) ❤️

No. 375: Sunny's New Year Wish for Us

May We AllWays Sing

As if We Are in Purrrrrrrrrfect

BLISS.

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