Waking Up in London…and the Northern Alberta Forests!

I was sent this link by my friend Joe who organized the first music and poetry night for Wake Up London, and has recently put on another evening -

http://wakeuplondon.org/2013/05/14/music-and-poetry-evening-saturday-18th-may/.

This year I am not in the UK to sing to an incredibly receptive audience, who shows their appreciation with silent hand waving at the end of each song as opposed to thunderous clapping.  I hope I never forget the feeling this gave me, like an uncontrollable smile poured over my whole body as silence followed but the energy in the room was so full and moving over everyone as they shook their hands and smiled towards me, in the light of a few candles.

how to be alone – tanya davis

Last night in Edmonton, Alberta, Tanya Davis made my heart swim in a sea of beautiful memories, which I can never repeat because they are mine to keep sweet, mine to tragically love and embrace, erase and retrace, and in the moments where there is no escape, like a poetry festival, openly face
Tanya thank you for “Ravish your lover while you still love her”. “How to be alone” is this video – Tanya is the poet laureate for Halifax, NS.

The First Recordings

Compost Song Audio

Belle Mamma

Learned and sung many times at Schumacher College when I was there as an MSc Student, I continued the tradition of sharing this song with the sangha of Lower Hamlet during the Christmas and New Year’s Eve retreat of 2012. Together we shared it with the whole Plum Village community as the ending performance to our New Year’s Eve celebrations, wrapping up the song with a Touching of the Earth, one of Plum Village’s many practices of mindfulness.

Oh Fill My Heart

I had the pleasure of passing along a song shared by a friend to my new Friends and Sisters of Lower Hamlet in Plum Village. ‘Oh Fill My Heart’ started the New Year’s Eve celebrations off the a bang! Thanks for to everyone for truly making my heart overflow Happy Continuation.

Ode to Schumacher College

Ode to Schumacher College

At Schumacher College, you don’t just go and study life changing sciences and understandings about the world, you learn about yourself and what it means to have a voice.

Recording of Happiness

 

Happiness is Here and Now

The power of music is a nourishment that I would never want to live with out.  I’m spending Christmas and New Years at Plum Village in France, and here we sing a lot of songs, all the time! The second (or so) Plum Village song I learned was in London from my friend Joe, and hopefully soon will have a recording of Joe, Felipe and I singing it together up online.  But in the mean time, I just wanted to share the words with you, hope they get stuck in your head, and work like medicine, the same way it did with me

Happiness is here and now, I have dropped my worries.

Nowhere to go, nothing to do, and I am in no hurry.

Happiness is here and now, I have dropped my worries.

Somewhere to go, something to do, but I am in no hurry.

Amazing Friends and Amazing Music

The night of song and poetry ended with this terrific triplet, only having practiced once before I think they said, pulled off an amazing 2 songs that had everyone smiling, singing along, and dancing on their meditation cushions ONE DAY we’ll all be singing songs that heal the world like these are!