When people who love each other, live with each other, and have for a long time, sing together, magical things happen.
These two have known and loved each other a long time. And their singing shows it. (well so does the rest of their life).
But what if we all allowed ourselves to be open to the love in a song? What if we all made space for the Peace? We need to do this. Sing Peace!
I admit, I looked it up last night, I looked it up again this morning. Does yakking, when talking about talking, have a c… it seems it may or may not. So, I’ll stand with this.
If ever there were a picture of two guys yakking, this is one!
Two gentle guys, always with a point of view, always happy to be together, catching up on the news. They’re probably talking about music… there’s definitely music happening…
We never see enough of our friends, do we? We never can have enough of these conversations. And we can never have enough of these friends. There’s always room for at least one more. Making new friends is a slow but effective way toward Peace.
I’m not completely sure whether yakking is a way to Peace or a sign of it. Or both. But it makes me happy… I wish you the Peace of Good Friends to yak with.
Peace in the ensemble happens when people listen to each other.
When they don’t, we get to see musicians play their pieces, and they may be great pieces, but there’s nothing there for us…
When they do, they make space for the community to be a part of the music. That’s where the Peace happens.
There’s great benefit to listening to music however you do, but there are so many more possibilities when you listen to music live. There’s all this wonderful neurophysiological possibility… and it happens not just to you, but to the whole crowd that’s listening! Amazingly, when they’re really making magic, they can make magic for those of us who aren’t particularly interested in that style of music.
So get out and listen to musicians who know how to play together. Find the Peace in the music. And find some people to do your work, whatever it is, in a listening ensemble. Make your own Peace.
I live in a valley filled with talented singer songwriters. We’re really so lucky. Some of them stay around here and sing for us, and others are out on the road making other people happy.
But one thing most of them do, and KJ in particular does, is make us sing. When we sing together the whole crowd comes together… make us listen to one another to sing harmony? it’s a fun thing and good for everyone. And meanwhile, Joe dazzles on guitar or bass…
Singing together helps give Peace a chance. Let’s do more of it in 2017!
Here it is my friends, a sweet beginning. You and I are privileged to hold its beauty tenderly and nurture and guide it.
Let us begin as we mean to go on, in Peace… Wishing you a sweet new year and working for Peace.
2016 was quite a year and here we are at the end of it. As many of us, I lost what I/we had so deeply hoped for. In the midst of the loss, I discovered reserves of steel I hadn’t suspected. I will stand for what is right. I hope that you will stand with me. I hope that we’ll laugh a lot as we stand together. What am I doing New Year’s Eve? Planning for Peace.
2017 will bring us many things. Among them, I hope to be with you, working for Peace. So here’s to you and a blessed year to come. Here’s to Peace.
The old year ends and the new year begins.
And so we give thanks. For the reminders of all we have gained with the passing of those gifts. For the surprises that entered our lives, that often, even if totally expected, change our lives and hearts in totally unexpected ways.
And so, even if our hearts are sore, we give thanks. and with all the Love we have gained, and all the Love that now sings only in memories, we look toward the new year, infinitely stronger for the Love we have known. We keep our hands open so that love may leave and come again…
Full hearts, even when tender, make Peace with determination. And oh, our world needs Peace.
Well, the snow seems to have stopped and is now dripping off the branches. I love the snow and the Winter Wonderland it creates. Sorry, aren’t going to get me to whine about it. It’s altogether too beautiful. We could use the beauty to help us to remember what a gift Life is.
And Peace? Well, are we making it? Because if we’re not, nothing’s happening. And we have a world sorely in need of it.
We must Peace. (and then hope there’s enough snow to play in!)
The fields lie dormant, doing what they’re good at. They’re a great reminder to rest and soak it in. Review the year that’s past. Rest up for the new. Exhale. Oh, that felt good.
It’s time to live off the fat of the land, trusting that the land will once more grow fat. But that’s a while from now. Now, we just have trust that Spring will come again. But we can’t hurry that. We can simply prepare.
The light is returning, but oh, so slowly. Let us practice Peace, right here and right now. Let us become proficient at it. Because the time is coming when our skills will be tested.
You and I are the fields which will bear fruit in the time ahead. Much does not work toward Peace. But we will not lose heart. Peace, my friends.
Okay, maybe there were a few too many metaphors in this short piece, but none the less, we must both practice Peace and bear its fruit… And rest. It won’t be the first time you’ve had to keep a few things in your mind!
Rainbows are wonderful things. They are beautiful and ephemeral. But they are also enduring symbols of strength and unity and promise.
We’re going to need that hope in the year(s) to come. We’re going to need to be that hope in the year(s) to come.
More than ever, we must be the Peace: quiet, enduring, and beautiful — like a rainbow.
