so well said!
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Inspiring Videos
A beautiful piece by Louie Schwartzberg- amazing photography, film, and wisdom.
This is a very inspiring four minutes, in which Charles Eistenstein offers a beautiful vision for a world that works for all: a world of community, intimacy, meaning… a world of love and belonging.
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from the book What Holds Us, New and Selected Poems
I wrote this poem shortly after 9-11, when I was feeling stunned and unsure of what we are meant to do in our ordinary and yet sacred lives- with such turmoil in the world.
Sometimes the first line is missed in the playing of the slideshow (shoot!) It is: “I hung hope out with the laundry…clothes-pinned tenderly beside a pillow case and two sheets. I could tell she needed air, a sweet puff of wind…”
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I thought I’d post this love song here. When I first wrote “I Symphony You”, one woman brought her husband to my little shop so I would sing it to him. Another sent it to her estranged boy-friend, and they became engaged. After that they asked me to come sing it at their wedding. I’m happy about that. This is one of the songs on my album, Savor The Days.
On my way to vote this morning, I stopped by Lucy Vincent Beach. It was serenely beautiful, with the most gentle waves caressing the shore. I invite you to watch this video, and imagine the fretting of your mind being soothed, and your natural well-being restored. It works for me!
Life has Loveliness to Sell song and slide show ~ This is a pretty Sarah Teasdale poem which I sang on my album Savor the Days. I used pictures from my blog, mostly of the Vineyard, for the slide show.
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This is a beautiful video with the words of a Mayan elder which sound, to me, like a poem you will want to share. Speaking of flowers, the sun was out this weekend and we gardened and planted lots of bulbs: lily of the valley, peonies, fresia, lilies, irises. We weeded the asparagus and strawberries… very content and excited. Wishing you sun and light and love and all good things.
Ivan Granger posted this hopeful youtube offering at Poetry Chaikhana earlier this week. Don Alverto Taxo, a Quichua elder and Iachak (community leader/healer) from Equador, invites us all to trust the universal human intuition to bring greater harmony into our lives, and to seek after life’s deeper meaning. I appreciate his message, but also love the music in the background; the children playing; the sheep; the gorgeous green landscape. This is visually beautiful and spiritually uplifting.
The beautiful innocence of the children in the video made me think of this poem.
in my village
holiness was everywhere
like oxygen like breath
it sparked and it hummed
birdsong in the trees
we children carried our joy
down the long road to the schoolhouse
all day it grew inside us
big like hungry flowers
when evening arrived like a blanket
we danced in the dark by our lights
while our parents talking and cooking
laughing rang the bell
giving thanks around the table
we’d pause for eternal half-fullness
breaking bread and stealing kisses
between sips of sweet autumn wine
and sometimes it rained in my village
and we opened the windows to listen
to the fertile music sound of it
telling stories by the fire
then marveling at the splendid
sheer distance of the starlight
we’d ask for vivid dreams
to bless us in our beds
in my village my village
in my village…
~Ingrid Goff-Maidoff
from What Holds Us, New and Selected Poems
Here’s another irresistible video:
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Thank you Jan Lundy, from Awake Is Good for telling me about this video. Watching it, I had to laugh at myself- because I recognized how dissatisfied and cranky I get when my mantra becomes, “what about me?” Thankfully, he offers a BEAUTIFUL remedy to this as well.
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