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I LOVE YOU
Here is a poem I wrote this past month while struggling and grappling with issues that came up from living life. Interestingly, this poem has changed my WHOLE way of meditating each day. Now, after doing my breathing, stretching, grounding, connecting to God and establishing boundaries … I spend time allowing whatever is causing me stress or anxiety in my life to come up. I feel it to its fullest … and then I simply say “I love you.” … just as in this poem. I am very grateful to have received this inspiration as it has improved my well being and life immensely this past month:
I love you.
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Rising swells
all flecked with fury.
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I love you.
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Judgement’s eyes
cast weight on the scales
of my heart.
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I love you.
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Friend or foe;
uncertainty’s advance.
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I love you.
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Ancient wounds prodded
provoking past mistakes.
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I love you.
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Dreamscape carnage
littered with pieces and parts
of who I was
and what I’ve done.
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I love you.
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A shuttered heart
defending inner sanctum.
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I love you.
I love you.
I love you.
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Namaste.
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- poem written by the author of Religion4All, art by Amanda Sage.
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Religion4All is an idea: that every human being (no matter their race, religion, sexuality, social status, lifestyle, or any other possible factor) is LOVED by God; just … as … they are.
We all are loved by God, and NO religion or person has a monopoly on it. Every single person on this planet is loved equally by God … SO many are cut off from God because they are told they don’t belong. God loves everyone … we ALL are beautiful creations … we don’t need to cringe when we hear the words “God”, or “religion”, or their judgments … God LOVES us all!
There is no requirement to change in order to be LOVED by God, or to LOVE God. God is LOVE, and LOVE is God … period. There is no one who God loves more than anyone else … there are only those who choose to LOVE more … to love God more, and consequently then to love each other more. In doing so, we grow closer to God … and know God.
By opening our hearts, and minds to God (free of boundaries like religion, or social trends); by LOVING God … we are exactly where we are meant to be. If we maintain that openness, never allowing any person or event to make us close our hearts, we will be guided by God to be who we are meant to be.
In that space of openness we can then live a life of LOVE, and be guided to where we are meant to be … forever in LOVE.
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Decide To Grow – Osho
My words to meditate on today:
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“In the past it has been said again and again by the priests that if you renounce you will attain to bliss. I tell you just the opposite: if you become blissful there is renunciation. And that renunciation has a beauty of its own — because in your rejoicing, all that is non-essential starts dropping away — because you can see it is non-essential. The very seeing is the transformation.”
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“A religion that makes you capable of celebrating to the optimum is the true religion. And this is the beauty of it: if you live life, a renunciation comes automatically. It happens — that is the nature. If you eat well, satiety comes. If you drink well, the thirst disappears. If you lived well, the clinging to life disappears. It has to be so. This is the law, the logos. If you have not lived well, then you always remain clinging, then you always dream about how to live.”
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“To decide to grow is a great renunciation — a renunciation of the security that is given to the seed, a renunciation of the wholeness that is given to the seed. But this security is at a very great cost. The seed is dead, it is only potentially living. It can live, or it can remain dead. Unless it grows, becomes a tree, it is dead. And as far as I know, human beings, unless they decide to grow, unless they take a jump into the unknown, are like seeds — dead, closed. The moment you start renouncing, you start shrinking. Rather than growing, rather than becoming vaster and infinite, you start shrinking into yourself. You lose all interest in existence, in love, because you are told to torture yourself. Renunciation from the world is another name for self-torture. And a man who is torturing himself — how can you expect him to dance? How can you expect him to be ecstatic? He is committing a slow suicide.”
– Osho
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– pic from Elephant wearing striped pants.
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Religion4All is an idea: that every human being (no matter their race, religion, sexuality, social status, lifestyle, or any other possible factor) is LOVED by God; just … as … they are.
We all are loved by God, and NO religion or person has a monopoly on it. Every single person on this planet is loved equally by God … SO many are cut off from God because they are told they don’t belong. God loves everyone … we ALL are beautiful creations … we don’t need to cringe when we hear the words “God”, or “religion”, or their judgments … God LOVES us all!
There is no requirement to change in order to be LOVED by God, or to LOVE God. God is LOVE, and LOVE is God … period. There is no one who God loves more than anyone else … there are only those who choose to LOVE more … to love God more, and consequently then to love each other more. In doing so, we grow closer to God … and know God.
By opening our hearts, and minds to God (free of boundaries like religion, or social trends); by LOVING God … we are exactly where we are meant to be. If we maintain that openness, never allowing any person or event to make us close our hearts, we will be guided by God to be who we are meant to be.
In that space of openness we can then live a life of LOVE, and be guided to where we are meant to be … forever in LOVE.
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re-blogged from Decide To Grow – Osho.
Facing Your Hopes
In meditating on facing one’s fears today (from my prior post, “The thing you fear“) I actually found myself thinking about the things that I hope for more than what I fear … a testament to overcoming fears, but that was just the first step. As I focused on my greatest hopes and desires, that feeling of clenching in my heart chakra told me that I was closing myself; shutting myself down.
It made me consider that, in my quest to overcome any and all fears, I neglected to seek out my hopes equally.
Your hopes and fears are always tied together. The greatest love in your life will, at some point, also produce some of the greatest pain in your life … the depths of pain come from loving just that much. We can shut ourselves down to experience less pain … but then we lose the joy in living as well.
“Living on the edge” truthfully means living life to the fullest … embracing your hopes and dreams, while accepting that in doing so you will go through some equal swings to the back end of that pendulum.
I personally have found victory in overcoming my fears by accepting them; allowing them to be, letting them go, and then allowing myself to move forward free of any fear-based reactions.
The same thing is true with out hopes … first though we have to actually ALLOW them to be. Most often we shoot our hopes down before we can ever actually pursue them: the person of your dreams, the job that seems unattainable, spiritual enlightenment, etc. Why is this?
Well, partially we fear the rejection of others; that we’ll be ridiculed for being so ostentatious as to actually believe we can make our dreams become reality. The deeper core of it though is that if we really embrace our dreams … we are going to the farthest ends of hope and joy that we possibly can.
We are afraid of the pain that will one day arrive, and so we sabotage our dreams … that way, such depths of pain will never be known. Problem solved.
Except that you’ll never forgive yourself for giving up … and you’ll never know that level of happiness … ever.
The only way to truly overcome our fears is not only to accept the fears … but to also embrace our greatest dreams, no matter the consequence. Bad things will happen to you in life, regardless … you can either be happy by pursuing your dreams, and sure have some deep pain as a consequence … or you can never be truly happy, and miserable when the events that are out of your control happen.
Set that pendulum swinging … pursue your dreams … don’t just stop time to avoid pain. The likelihood is that God gave you those dreams for a purpose.
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Religion4All is an idea: that every human being (no matter their race, religion, sexuality, social status, lifestyle, or any other possible factor) is LOVED by God; just … as … they are.
We all are loved by God, and NO religion or person has a monopoly on it. Every single person on this planet is loved equally by God … SO many are cut off from God because they are told they don’t belong. God loves everyone … we ALL are beautiful creations … we don’t need to cringe when we hear the words “God”, or “religion”, or their judgments … God LOVES us all!
There is no requirement to change in order to be LOVED by God, or to LOVE God. God is LOVE, and LOVE is God … period. There is no one who God loves more than anyone else … there are only those who choose to LOVE more … to love God more, and consequently then to love each other more. In doing so, we grow closer to God … and know God.
By opening our hearts, and minds to God (free of boundaries like religion, or social trends); by LOVING God … we are exactly where we are meant to be. If we maintain that openness, never allowing any person or event to make us close our hearts, we will be guided by God to be who we are meant to be.
In that space of openness we can then live a life of LOVE, and be guided to where we are meant to be … forever in LOVE.
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re-blogged from Facing Your Hopes.
Opportunity For Reggae Singer – “Unconditional Love”, an original song
Anyone sing Reggae, or want to give this song a try? I LOVE the lyrics and message, but unfortunately am not a Reggae singer … although I would love to contribute to this music project somehow!
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re-blogged from Opportunity For Reggae Singer – “Unconditional Love”, an original song.
– click the above SoundCloud link to listen to the a capella vocals for this new original song –
If you like singing Reggae and feel that you have a nice voice (or perhaps you’ve been told you do) … record yourself singing this new song and send the recording to me at songboy_s_c@yahoo.com!
This could be a great opportunity to share your voice and spirit with the world!
This is a collaborative project where anyone and everyone who contributes gets equal musical songwriting credit for the song they contribute to. So if you want to play guitar, drums, piano, didgeridoo, create electronic music … the list goes on indefinitely. There are no end to musical possibilities and that is what will make this project something no one has ever heard before.
The lyrics are below … the song is in the key of C … let your spirit guide you and share what is unique to you with the rest of us in the world.
“Unconditional Love”
By: Christopher Anderson
Unconditional love
means never closing your heart
although it be torn apart
or ripped to pieces.
Unconditional love
as pure as a newborn kiss
and as long Ouroboros
but much more gentle.
What they can’t see
can be heard in the silence.
Where they may go
so it follows surely behind;
like the tendrils of passion
it climbs the edifice of their mind
to bloom and spread a fragrance
Unmistakable.
Unconditional love
collapses all space and time
with all souls intertwined
but barely moving.
Unconditional love
it pierces right through your heart
tears flow at the very art
of its magic.
(choir sings “Unconditional Love” in chords while soloist improvs)
It can’t be broken
Cannot be changed
Not dismantled
Or rearranged.
No more fighting
No more hate
No more vengeance
It all dissipates.
It’s unconditional.
Love.
Unconditional Love is here … for you!!! ;-)
Cool song! I wish I played a musical instrument so I could be a part of this song project … such a cool idea where anyone, anywhere in the world can be a part of the “band”.
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re-blogged from Unconditional Love is here … for you!!! 😉 at Collaborative Composition.
(press play on the SoundCloud link above)
It’s here! “Unconditional Love”, a Reggae song … and it’s all yours to listen to, work with and create the accompaniment for. Listen to it, groove to it … if you want to sing the lead vocals record yourself singing it and send it to me at songboy_s_c@yahoo.com.
I am NOT a Reggae singer … so this is a BIG opportunity for someone to do lead vocals for an awesome song. This song flowed out of me in a wave of inspiration … and I am simply singing what I heard in my head (so you’ll have to pardon the phony accent, I just heard it that way! lol) I am singing it here, but this is only to convey the words and melody … if you want to sing lead? Go for it!
The long bit of silence 2/3s of the way through is meant to be for vocalist improvisation with a choir in the background singing “Unconditional Love” in chords.
This is the second Musical Mosaic song project for this year-long Collaborative Composition song project.
Anyone, anywhere in the world, can play whatever instrument they want to the vocals … when you have what you want to record down, send it to me. If I use your idea/contribution you will be given equal musical songwriting credit on the album.
That means if this album goes big your name will be on it for both songwriting credit AND as a performer. Nothing is a guarantee in this world … but why not live a life of hope rather than one of resignation. Resignation eats away at your insides and makes you miserable … so BELIEVE and go for it! Live out of inspiration instead … you’ll be much happier! 😉
Here are the lyrics:
Unconditional Love
By: Christopher Anderson
Unconditional love
means never closing your heart
although it be torn apart
or ripped to pieces.
Unconditional love
as pure as a newborn kiss
and as long Ouroboros
but much more gentle.
What they can’t see
can be heard in the silence.
Where they may go
so it follows surely behind;
like the tendrils of passion
it climbs the edifice of their mind
to bloom and spread a fragrance
Unmistakable.
Unconditional love
collapses all space and time
with all souls intertwined
but barely moving.
Unconditional love
it pierces right through your heart
tears flow at the very art
of its magic.
(choir sings “Unconditional Love” in chords while soloist improvs)
It can’t be broken
Cannot be changed
Not dismantled
Or rearranged.
No more fighting
No more hate
No more vengeance
It all dissipates.
It’s unconditional.
Love.
* This song has an informal copyright for Christopher Anderson. If you want to use it outside of Collaborative Composition, you will need to come to an agreement with the songwriter.
– art by Chris Dyer.
Wrapping up “Faith Is A Bird” … bring on “Unconditional Love”! (a reggae song)
Awesome lyrics … LOVE it!! I was into this from the first song project … but I am stoked about the message in this new song. Can’t wait to hear it!
re-blogged from Wrapping up “Faith Is A Bird” … bring on “Unconditional Love”! (a reggae song).
Okay, it’s been a month so I am going to close out the “Faith Is A Bird” Musical Mosaic project and upload the next song on this 12 song Collaborative Composition project later this week.
The next song to be uploaded is called “Unconditional Love” … and it is a reggae song! So this is a HUGE opportunity for anyone who wants to sing the lead vocal!
I am not a reggae singer, but that is simply how the inspiration flowed and I am absolutely in LOVE with this song … so while I will be uploading the “a capella” version of the song with my voice, I do not intend to be the lead vocal on this track.
So if you have some reggae groove, I want to hear it … it doesn’t matter who you are, where you are from, or what your background is … ANYONE could wind up singing this song if your voice and spirit is a match. It’s whoever MOVES me the most.
If there is anyone who has been working on “Faith Is A Bird” and either hasn’t gotten their contribution in yet, or wants to contribute, I am still receiving contributions. I am getting to the point where the song is nearing completion in terms of concept though … so please do try and get your contribution in soon. I would hate to have anyone put their soul into something and have it not be used because the song has already been finished.
The vocals for the new song will be posted in the next couple of days. Here are the lyrics:
Unconditional Love
By: Chris Anderson
Unconditional love
means never closing your heart
although it be torn apart
or ripped to pieces.
Unconditional love
as pure as a newborn kiss
and as long Ouroboros
but much more gentle.
What they can’t see
can be heard in the silence.
Where they may go
so it follows surely behind;
like the tendrils of passion
it climbs the edifice of their mind
to bloom and spread a fragrance
Unmistakable.
Unconditional love
collapses all space and time
with all souls intertwined
but barely moving.
Unconditional love
it pierces right through your heart
tears flow at the very art
of its magic.
(choir sings “Unconditional Love” in chords while soloist improvs)
It can’t be broken
Cannot be changed
Not dismantled
Or rearranged.
No more fighting
No more hate
No more vengeance
It all dissipates.
It’s Unconditional …
Love.
Do you play music by ear?
A project I am committed to contributing to.
Hopefully we can spread the word in this awesome effort to create a “world wide band” where anyone, anywhere in the world, can contribute their ideas for accompaniment to original songs.
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Do you have an innate sense for where the music should go when you are playing piano, or singing harmonies, or jamming on a guitar, or whatever you instrument might be?
Guess what?! That is the exact quality that I am looking for with this year-long collaborative music project!
My goal is to put together a 12 song album and each song will be what I am calling a Musical Mosaic. By this, I mean that I will be piecing together contributions from anyone, ANYWHERE in the world.
I will upload one song each month, sung “a Capella” (without accompaniment) and then any of you can come up with whatever YOU think sounds awesome as an accompaniment. Each person selected will receive equal musical songwriting credit on the album for however many songs they contribute to.
Just grab a set of headphones, or an earbud, and listen to the sung version of each song … record what you come up with and send it to me at songboy_s_c@yahoo.com.
This month’s song, the first of twelve, is called “Faith Is A Bird”:
Rock out, get inspired, kiss Resignation goodbye and ride the tidal wave that is your inner muse. I want to hear what YOUR unique “voice” is … we all have something that makes us unique.
So let’s make uniquely revolutionary music together!
– pic shared from Piano Articles.
Taking music from around the world and piecing each contribution together to make a Musical Mosaic of Collaborative Composition!
Re-blogged from Do you play music by ear?.
Grasping at the Shadow
In my meditations today (on my prior post, “Aesop’s Fables“) I found myself inspired by each of the quotes really. I had every intention to write an extended post with a couple of paragraphs for each one. As I continued meditating, I just didn’t feel Divine inspiration down that path. For some reason the very first, and shortest, of the quotes from Aesop’s Fables kept returning to me:
“Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.” – Aesop
There are lots of ways that one could go with this quote:
I could say to a friend, or loved one, “Don’t take me for granted just because I am always here for you. Yes, I love you unconditionally … but this does not make me weak, rather it exhibits the strength of my Love. That Love will not likely be found in a fantasy/shadow.”
I could say to myself, “Be grateful for the things that you have. Stop pining for the things, or circumstances, that you hope for. Sit back in your awareness, and find the things that you are grateful for in the here and now … and let the fantasies/shadows dance in the pale moonlight … alone. What will be, will be.”
What I felt God actually prompt me toward was this:
“Stop pining for the fantasies/shadows that would distract you, or derail you, from your relationship with Me. If you try to force your own desires into reality, that is exactly what you will accomplish … for even if what you get is what I wanted you to have … you will have gotten it in the wrong way … and it will fall away and wither as a result. WAIT on Me, be CONTENT with Me, and TRUST Me … I will make you happy beyond your wildest dreams and imaginations.”
Good words from God, those.
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Religion4All is an idea: that every human being (no matter their race, religion, sexuality, social status, lifestyle, or any other possible factor) is LOVED by God; just … as … they are.
We all are loved by God, and NO religion or person has a monopoly on it. Every single person on this planet is loved equally by God … SO many are cut off from God because they are told they don’t belong. God loves everyone … we ALL are beautiful creations … we don’t need to cringe when we hear the words “God”, or “religion”, or their judgments … God LOVES us all!
There is no requirement to change in order to be LOVED by God, or to LOVE God. God is LOVE, and LOVE is God … period. There is no one who God loves more than anyone else … there are only those who choose to LOVE more … to love God more, and consequently then to love each other more. In doing so, we grow closer to God … and know God.
By opening our hearts, and minds to God (free of boundaries like religion, or social trends); by LOVING God … we are exactly where we are meant to be. If we maintain that openness, never allowing any person or event to make us close our hearts, we will be guided by God to be who we are meant to be.
In that space of openness we can then live a life of LOVE, and be guided to where we are meant to be … forever in LOVE.
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Drumming – an expressive art that truly crosses all cultural divides
More on the “world-wide band” project taking contributions from anyone, anywhere in the world … I am excited to participate.
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– A TED talk with Indian percussionist, Sivamani
Drumming is truly something that every culture on earth has in common … it is a musical foundation. No matter where or who you are, you can find something to drum on. That concept is at the essence of this year long series of song projects I will be mixing and creating.
For those who do not know, I will be uploading a sung version of an original song, without accompaniment, each month for the next year. The intent is to put together a twelve song album unlike any ever created … with contributions from anyone, anywhere on planet Earth. A world-wide band!
I am now beginning to piece together the different recordings I have for the percussion part of the current Musical Mosaic song project, “Faith Is A Bird”.
– Read more at Drumming – an expressive art that truly crosses all cultural divides.
“Faith Is A Bird” – only two more weeks to get your musical ideas in!
Hopefully this project will have wide participation … I think it would be cool to hear what it sounds like to have music melded from different countries around the world!
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Just want to remind those of you who want to contribute your musical ideas … each Musical Mosaic project will be one month long, and then I will upload a new song to start working on.
So if you have been wanting to record something for my “a capella” version of “Faith Is A Bird” … time is ticking. 🙂 Here is the vocal recording of the song:
I will be taking submissions for this song up until October 14th. If you submit something later than that date you may still be selected if I like what you’ve done enough.
But I will begin forming my ideas and putting the actual song together on or before October 14th. The sooner you get your contribution in, the more likely you are to be chosen as a musical member of this worldwide band (for this song).
Not to worry though, there will be a new ORIGINAL song posted every month for the next year … so 11 more songs in total.
HEY! If Resignation is sitting there whispering in your ear that you aren’t good enough, or nothing will come of this, or you’ll just be rejected, or who knows what other crap … get over it!
We can’t live our lives in Resignation if we are going to be truly free and happy!
So do it! Sing, or play along, come up with what YOU think sounds cool as accompaniment to my vocal (or sing the lead if you want!). Let’s make some REVOLUTIONARY music!
re-blogged from “Faith Is A Bird” – only two more weeks to get your musical ideas in!.
New Song For Collaboration – Unconditional Love (Reggae singer wanted)
This project seems completely boundless … a reggae singer audition!? I hope this collaborative music idea works, because I want to hear it … not to mention be involved in it! Maybe I should practice channeling a reggae vibe (lol).
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This past week I was filled with inspiration to write a new song. I already have a lot of original songs lined up for this song project … but every so often a song comes along that is SO inspired that it rises up through the “ranks” and shines.
Interestingly enough, I hear the song as a reggae song … and anyone who knows me, knows that I am not a reggae singer! (lol) So this will be a HUGE opportunity for someone possibly new or unheard of to swing for the fences with a lead vocal!!
If you want to be considered for the lead vocal of this new reggae Musical Mosaic project, send me a recording of you singing whatever you want (songboy_s_c@yahoo.com). I will go with whoever MOVES me the most. This is a song about Unconditional Love, so if you share your soul when you sing … go for it!
I will intro this awesome new song at a later date, as I do not want to take away from the current Musical Mosaic song project. Listen to the current song project here, “Faith Is A Bird“, and record whatever you think will sound awesome as an accompaniment. Whatever your instrument, I want to hear where your unique Muse takes you during your own flight of inspiration!
Don’t let Resignation hold you back … aren’t you SICK of being resigned yet???
Open your heart and let it fly out! Send me your recording in a .WAV file at songboy_s_c@yahoo.com. If your accompaniment is selected you will receive EQUAL musical songwriting credit for this song on the album.
– art by Chris Dyer, Peeling Bodies.
re-blogged from: New Song For Collaboration – Unconditional Love (Reggae singer wanted).
Live demonstrations of musical options for song project …
Cute and definitely funny … can’t wait to hear how the final version of how this song comes out and I love the concept of incorporating different people, styles and ideas from all over the world.
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Here are a few video clips giving tips or pointers for anyone not quite sure how to contribute their ideas, or get started.
My sister-in-law came up with the idea of putting together some videos that might help people who are unclear on how to contribute music for this song project. She was unsure of where to even start if she would want to contribute something and thought this might be helpful for people who felt the same way (intimidated or unsure how to get started).
I truly want to hear from EVERYONE who has an interest in contributing their voice, whether you are amateur or professional. I will be layering tracks of peoples’ contributions into the accompaniment, so even if you think what you have to offer is simplistic … that is totally fine.
You finding your “voice” in terms of instrument or singing is what is important to me. Each of you has a UNIQUE voice. First, I am starting with my niece and nephew with some pointers for guitar and voice:
Secondly, we travel into the comedic world of my brother and his eldest daughter, allowing the muse to move them in the art of table drumming (comedy ensues, lol):
… and lastly my sister-in-law demonstrates how you might get started on coming up with an accompaniment on piano:
So there you have it … you do NOT have to be a professional musician to contribute (although that doesn’t hurt!) :-). Just listen to the song, play around with different ideas musically, and then record whatever you think sounds good! Send your recording to me at songboy_s_c@yahoo.com as a .WAV file.
If your arrangement is selected as part of the finished version of the song, you will be given equal musical songwriting credit on the album.
You can listen to the vocal version of the song, “Faith Is A Bird”, here:
re-blogged from Live demonstrations of musical options for song project ….
Better ways to spend your time?
Bringing inspiration to the world is a very spiritual endeavor, I would say. Can’t wait to hear what this sounds like!
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Collaborative Composition: Musical Mosaics that span the globe
Tired of being bored? What gives you passion and makes you feel as if you are “living on the edge”? For me, that feeling comes from being inspired and contributing something that is completely unique to me.
That concept is at the core of this new Musical Mosaic project … HOORAY, finally someone who really WANTS to hear exactly what is unique about you!!!
I have uploaded the first “a capella” (vocal, without accompaniment) song of what will be a 12 song album … and here it is, “Faith Is A Bird”:
I want to hear from any and ALL of you as to what YOU think would sound cool as an accompaniment. Whether you are professional, amateur, or music afficionado … you have a voice. You could be a pianist, a singer, a guitarist, a drummer, a crystal singing bowl wizard, or literally ANY kind of musical creation known to man. If it is your voice, I want to hear it!
All you have to do is put an earbud in your ear, listen to the sung version of the song … and record whatever comes to you. You can take some time to really hone what you want to contribute … or you can do it on the fly. It’s YOUR voice, so do what you want to do. Express yourself!
Whoever is selected will receive equal musical songwriting credit for that song on the album … what do you have to lose? I really, truly want to hear from YOU … send me your recordings at songboy_s_c@yahoo.com and let’s make some revolutionary music together!
Chris
re-blogged from Collaborative Composition: Better ways to spend your time?.
LAUNCH! “Faith Is A Bird” – a Musical Mosaic project spanning the globe
An exciting project … now to figure out what music I am going to contribute! Seems like an awesome way to bring people around the world together through music!
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Kicking off this year long Musical Mosaic project – here is the first a capella song, “Faith Is A Bird”.
I will be uploading one new original song each month, totaling TWELVE Musical Mosaics to create an album. If your contribution is selected, you will receive equal musical credit … the same as me or anyone else involved in that song.
As an example, if there are 14 contributions selected for the entire song … then there will be 14 equal songwriting shares for the music on that song.
For now, here are some bullet points to help you express yourself fully:
To read more click here: LAUNCH! “Faith Is A Bird” – a Musical Mosaic project spanning the globe.
“Faith Is A Bird” – a new song that YOU can help compose the music for!
So excited to see how this “worldwide musical mosaic” unfolds … very cool!
– re-blogged from Collaborative Composition.
Here we go … launching forward into possibilities heretofore unknown! Exciting!! I will be posting the a capella recording of this song, “Faith Is A Bird”, on Sunday, September 14.
The idea of fusing some of your amazing ideas together into a worldwide musical mosaic has me, as a friend described yesterday, “luminescent”.
I am happy to share songwriting credit with any of you whose ideas are included in these songs. I will be posting a new original song each month, for one year, with the intention of putting together an album of songs that are completely groundbreaking … through all of OUR contributions fused together!
If you think I am somehow not excited to hear what YOU specifically have to share and contribute? Well … that’s just Resignation whispering in your ear, my friend. You have a unique voice that nobody else has … and I want to hear it, and share it, and bring you along with me on this journey of songwriting.
Read the rest of the post here: “Faith Is A Bird” – a new song that YOU can help compose the music for!.
Stasis Clarity
If you could strip away every single thing about you … just exist; one and at peace with God. What would you be? Who would you be?
Every hope, every desire, every reactionary display of either aggression or insecurity?
Gone.
Every possession, every learned conception, every belief you’ve learned to “know” is truth?
Gone.
Every aspiration, inspiration, or daily exacerbation?
Gone.
Every relationship, every fiber and follicle of your corporeal being … every instant of time?
Now what? What do you do, where do you go, who will you be, what will you know? If all your knickknacks, paddywhacks, dogs to give a bone to … were just gone.
Maybe that’s a good place to start from. Maybe in that stasis you would actually find clarity. Maybe that’s what being enlightened is all about. Being able to literally “Let Go” … of everything … and just be with God, in God, of God … pure Love.
Impossible? No, we’ll all get there eventually … so perhaps the ultimate task is to make such a thing the conscious decision and expression of your life … instead of the unconscious and ultimate conclusion of mortality.
Peace and Love.
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This post came as a result of meditating on my prior post, “If we could strip our nature“.
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Religion4All is an idea: that every human being (no matter their race, religion, sexuality, social status, lifestyle, or any other possible factor) is LOVED by God; just … as … they are.
We all are loved by God, and NO religion or person has a monopoly on it. Every single person on this planet is loved equally by God … SO many are cut off from God because they are told they don’t belong. God loves everyone … we ALL are beautiful creations … we don’t need to cringe when we hear the words “God”, or “religion”, or their judgments … God LOVES us all!
There is no requirement to change in order to be LOVED by God, or to LOVE God. God is LOVE, and LOVE is God … period. There is no one who God loves more than anyone else … there are only those who choose to LOVE more … to love God more, and consequently then to love each other more. In doing so, we grow closer to God … and know God.
By opening our hearts, and minds to God (free of boundaries like religion, or social trends); by LOVING God … we are exactly where we are meant to be. If we maintain that openness, never allowing any person or event to make us close our hearts, we will be guided by God to be who we are meant to be.
In that space of openness we can then live a life of LOVE, and be guided to where we are meant to be … forever in LOVE.
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What it’s all about …
This sounds like an awesome concept for bringing people from all over the world together through music! I plan on submitting some music of my own!
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re-blogged from Collaborative Composition
My name is Chris. I am a singer, songwriter and composer. I have composed music ranging through a broad spectrum of styles. I love music FUSION and I write what I hear in my head.
What I want to do is create truly original music that potentially fuses all SORTS of ideas. I want to create music that hits people right in the pit of their soul stomach.
I want to SHED the egoic persona of being the star … been there done that. I have no desire to be “above” anyone.
I thought about putting such a band together; one that is completely collaborative and open to many ideas from all members. Then a mentor and friend showed me THIS video:
I was so inspired by this concept … bringing together people from all over the globe through music. I thought,
“What if I could get people to contribute their OWN musical ideas for some of the songs I have written?”
So I created this page and will begin loading sung versions of songs, a capella … without musical accompaniment. The music is for YOU to create. It doesn’t matter how trained or untrained you are … it doesn’t matter what instrument you play.
If you want to sing backup harmonies, GREAT. If you want to play percussion on the spokes of a bicycle wheel, GREAT. If you play violin, piano, guitar, sitar or didgeridoo … GREAT. If you want to sing the vocal line I am singing, GREAT … if I like your voice better than mine for that particular song, I’ll use your voice for the lead.
Like a worldwide mosaic of music, we can change the way music is created!
Whatever you think would be an awesome contribution to the song … submit it. If your recording is selected I will list you as a co-songwriter/performer and potentially consider you for future songs, or even live performance down the road.
Whatever country you are from. Whatever background you have experienced. Whatever role you have played. Whatever levels you have achieved. Music is a common thread that brings us all together.
What have you got to lose?? What do WE have to gain???
I say we stand to gain a truly original, non-derivative style of music that has the potential to blow people away!
So send me your recordings in a WAV file. You can do this simply by sending me the recording off of a smart phone. If you have more professional equipment that is awesome, but don’t let that be a deterrent!
You can just listen to my singing with an earpiece and play/sing what you want with the Voice Memos or Recording capabilities of your phone or computer. It’s as easy as that … I can “clean” the recordings up on my end if they need it.
I will submit the first song within the next week … happy creating!
Chris
songboy_s_c@yahoo.comWhat it’s all about ….
The most important thing is – to bloom
My words for meditation today:
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“The lilac branches are bowed under the weight of the flowers: blooming is hard, and the most important thing is – to bloom.”
– Yevgeny Zamyatin
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“One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.”
– Joseph Campbell
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“The first thing: existence CARES what happens to you. Existence is continuously praying that the ultimate should happen to you. In fact you are nothing but a hand extended by the whole to reach the ultimate. You are nothing but a wave coming from the whole to touch the moon. You are nothing but a flower opening, so that the whole is filled with fragrance through you.”
– Osho
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“Algerian Beauty in a Lilac Field” is a painting by Leon Louis Tanzi.
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Religion4All is an idea: that every human being (no matter their race, religion, sexuality, social status, lifestyle, or any other possible factor) is LOVED by God; just … as … they are.
We all are loved by God, and NO religion or person has a monopoly on it. Every single person on this planet is loved equally by God … SO many are cut off from God because they are told they don’t belong. God loves everyone … we ALL are beautiful creations … we don’t need to cringe when we hear the words “God”, or “religion”, or their judgments … God LOVES us all!
There is no requirement to change in order to be LOVED by God, or to LOVE God. God is LOVE, and LOVE is God … period. There is no one who God loves more than anyone else … there are only those who choose to LOVE more … to love God more, and consequently then to love each other more. In doing so, we grow closer to God … and know God.
By opening our hearts, and minds to God (free of boundaries like religion, or social trends); by LOVING God … we are exactly where we are meant to be. If we maintain that openness, never allowing any person or event to make us close our hearts, we will be guided by God to be who we are meant to be.
In that space of openness we can then live a life of LOVE, and be guided to where we are meant to be … forever in LOVE.
Southern California, Northern California,Mission Viejo, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Marin, San Jose, San Juan Capistrano, Santa Ana, Palm Springs, Long Beach
Perfect Facade
Living in this world is almost entirely comprised of proving your worth. People like to pretend that this is not the case, that their “love” is really the stuff that True Love is made of … that being Unconditional … but this idea is disproved all around us.
Think about it … if you did nothing to prove your worth, where and who would you be? If you didn’t shave hairs off your body, or spend hours looking just right, or get a job that garners respect, or lose weight, or act in the way that is most appropriate to those you have chosen to love … what would your view of yourself be? What would their view of you be?
You have proving yourself to your family, or proving yourself to the Church … proving yourself to the government … proving yourself to the girls, or guys, or neighbors, or bosses, or co-workers, or strangers who you don’t even know but you don’t want them to look at your weirdly in the grocery store while you’re shopping for food. We do EVERYTHING just to gain what passes for acceptance or love … but really isn’t acceptance or love at all. It’s acceptance and love for the perfect facade you present … not you.
If all you did was sit on a street corner … could you live with that? Could you face yourself each and every day? Would the nagging, nay gnawing, diminish or grow within you?
What if I added something to that question? What if all you did was sit on a street corner … and worship God … all day? Does that change it for you? No, probably not.
Why is that?
When there is nothing more important that we can be doing than loving God and, through that, loving each other … why is it that EVERYTHING that defines us is about proving ourselves to each other? It’s the OPPOSITE of loving God and, through that, loving each other!!
Even for myself with meditation … I have realized that so much of that is about DOING something … PROVING myself. I have to be making myself into the epitome of what I believe God wants me to be … when all God wants is for me to BE … right there, in that moment, in the present LOVING and basking in the hovering afterglow that IS God.
Try it … see how hard it really is .
Am I saying that we should all just do nothing? Of course not … but we CAN at least detach that incessant inner source-wire that has become the pseudo pump for our life blood … dictating virtually every action we have. What if the decisions you made in life were not about anything more than what is authentic to you … to who you were created to be? To simply be the person that makes God smile. That would be a wonderful place to step forward from …
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Religion4All is an idea: that every human being (no matter their race, religion, sexuality, social status, lifestyle, or any other possible factor) is LOVED by God; just … as … they are.
We all are loved by God, and NO religion or person has a monopoly on it. Every single person on this planet is loved equally by God … SO many are cut off from God because they are told they don’t belong. God loves everyone … we ALL are beautiful creations … we don’t need to cringe when we hear the words “God”, or “religion”, or their judgments … God LOVES us all!
There is no requirement to change in order to be LOVED by God, or to LOVE God. God is LOVE, and LOVE is God … period. There is no one who God loves more than anyone else … there are only those who choose to LOVE more … to love God more, and consequently then to love each other more. In doing so, we grow closer to God … and know God.
By opening our hearts, and minds to God (free of boundaries like religion, or social trends); by LOVING God … we are exactly where we are meant to be. If we maintain that openness, never allowing any person or event to make us close our hearts, we will be guided by God to be who we are meant to be.
In that space of openness we can then live a life of LOVE, and be guided to where we are meant to be … forever in LOVE.
Southern California, Northern California, Mission Viejo, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Marin, San Jose, San Juan Capistrano, Santa Ana, Palm Springs, Long Beach
via Perfect Facade.
Maya Angelou – in memorium
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
By: Maya Angelou
The free bird leaps
on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current ends
and dips his wings
in the orange sun rays
and dares to claim the sky.
But a bird that stalks
down his narrow cage
can seldom see through
his bars of rage
his wings are clipped and
his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing.
The caged bird sings
with fearful trill
of the things unknown
but longed for still
and his tune is heard
on the distant hill
for the caged bird
sings of freedom
The free bird thinks of another breeze
and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees
and the fat worms waiting on a dawn-bright lawn
and he names the sky his own.
But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams
his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream
his wings are clipped and his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing
The caged bird sings
with a fearful trill
of things unknown
but longed for still
and his tune is heard
on the distant hill
for the caged bird
sings of freedom.
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Religion4All is an idea: that every human being (no matter their race, religion, sexuality, social status, lifestyle, or any other possible factor) is LOVED by God; just … as … they are.
We all are loved by God, and NO religion or person has a monopoly on it. Every single person on this planet is loved equally by God … SO many are cut off from God because they are told they don’t belong. God loves everyone … we ALL are beautiful creations … we don’t need to cringe when we hear the words “God”, or “religion”, or their judgments … God LOVES us all!
There is no requirement to change in order to be LOVED by God, or to LOVE God. God is LOVE, and LOVE is God … period. There is no one who God loves more than anyone else … there are only those who choose to LOVE more … to love God more, and consequently then to love each other more. In doing so, we grow closer to God … and know God.
By opening our hearts, and minds to God (free of boundaries like religion, or social trends); by LOVING God … we are exactly where we are meant to be. If we maintain that openness, never allowing any person or event to make us close our hearts, we will be guided by God to be who we are meant to be.
In that space of openness we can then live a life of LOVE, and be guided to where we are meant to be … forever in LOVE.
Southern California, Northern California, Mission Viejo, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Marin, San Jose, San Juan Capistrano, Santa Ana, Palm Springs, Long Beach
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