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<div style="text-align: left;">As an independent artist, YOU are my record label. <b>THANK YOU SO MUCH</b> to everyone who has sponsored songs and pre-ordered. AND THANKS TO ALL OF YOU who follow my music, come to shows, and invest in my recordings. Because of you, I continue to create music and share it within the world. From the depths of my soul, I am infinitely grateful.<br><br><b><i>Possibility</i></b> has been a huge communal effort. I am deeply grateful to work with producer Steven Lee Tracy at <a href="http://saintceciliastudios.com/" target="_blank">Saint Cecilia Studios</a>. Many phenomenal musicians contributed their time and creativity to make the songs much bigger than I ever imagined.<br><br>The album will be officially released August 28, 2015. Pre-orders will be shipped out in early August.<br><br>Thank YOU for being part of my music.</div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><b>We're in the last week of studio work. If you'd like to support this creation, here's a special "support the new album" deal through Friday, July 17th:</b></div>
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<p> </p><p><br><b>ALSO THROUGH FRIDAY, JUNE 17TH, THERE ARE STILL SONGS AVAILABLE TO SPONSOR (see below). </b><br><br><b>If you're more comfortable paying in check or cash, call 520-444-7831 or email fireweedmusic@earthlink.net, and we can arrange that!</b><br><br><b>POSSIBILITY will be officially released August 26, 2015. Pre-orders will be shipped in early August.</b></p>
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<p><b><i>Be part of bringing a song into the world. For each person or group that sponsors a song on the new album, you will get your name(s) in the liner notes, hand written lyrics of your song, one Possibility CD for every one hundred dollars spent, AND a digital MP3 of the song e-mailed to you on or before July 29, 2015. </i></b><br><br><i>--- Only one sponsorship opportunity available per song ---</i><br><br><b>___________________________________________________</b><br><br><br><b><span style="color: purple;">---- SPONSORED!! <i>Thank you, Redflower &amp; Zelda!!!</i>  ----</span></b><b> "Made of Light"</b><br>This is the final track on the album. An intimate, solo acoustic guitar/vocal performance. I want listeners to feel like I'm sitting next to them, singing a lullaby to their soul.</p>
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<p><b><span style="color: purple;">----    SPONSORED!! <i>Thank you!!!</i>   ----</span></b><b>  "Let My Soul In"</b><br>This might be the "prettiest" song on the album. Extremely intimate piano/vocal performance with beautiful cello, violin, viola and acoustic guitar woven throughout. Healing.<br><br><b>___________________________________________________</b><br><br><b>$400  -  "Wide Open"</b><br>A dark night of the soul mixed with a hint of morning light. Joe Ferguson's acoustic fingerpicking laced with Doug "Hurricane" Floyd's mesmerizing electric guitar licks, layered with piano, strings, bass, drums, vocals. A journey of depth and resurrection.</p>
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<p><b>___________________________________________________</b><br><br><b><span style="color: purple;"> ----  SPONSORED!! <i>Thank you, Diann &amp; Mersadies</i>  ----</span></b><b>  "Follow the Light"</b><br>Showing up amidst the ever-changing, unexpected journeys of life. <i>"I surrender to this Life, to the dark I do not hide, I walk strong in stride, I live from inside...I follow the light."</i></p>
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<p><br><b>$500  -  "Alchemy"</b><br>My Midwestern roots. Planting seeds and growing love. Blue collar rock 'n roll. Doug "Hurricane" Floyd diggin' into the guitar, Jay Trapp (bass) and Ralph Gilmore (drums) layin' down a solid toe-tappin' groove, Steven Lee Tracy on organ and Ms. Sabra Faulk on harmony vocals. I'm in heaven playin' acoustic guitar and singin' my heart out.</p>
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<p><b>___________________________________________________</b><br><br><b><span style="color: purple;"> ---- SPONSORED!!  <i>Thank you, Melinda, Ryan and Zeus!!!</i> ---- </span></b><b>"Morning Has Broken"</b><br>Based on lyrics written by Eleanor Farjeon...a whole new song. I'm SO EXCITED about this one! We've got a John Lennon-esque instrumental vibe that builds into a soulful groove, with a full choir finale singing, clapping and stomping. Definitely a celebration of the new day!<br><br><b>___________________________________________________</b><br><br><b><span style="color: purple;">---- SPONSORED!! <i>Thank you, Quail Creek Friends - Glenn &amp; Mary, Pam &amp; Carlo, Jim &amp; Jane, and Bob &amp; Connie!!!</i> ----</span></b><b>  "Possibility"</b><br>The album theme song. Nick Coventry's swooping violin and viola sound like hummingbirds singing to Michael G. Ronstadt's soothing cello. A big blues break-down in the middle with the choir echoing, "Hold my hand, help me understand, how to heal, heal this land. Walk with me through our country-side, walk with me in our city, walk with me down to our precious sea...let us set the Garden free."<br><br><b>___________________________________________________</b><br><br><b><span style="color: purple;">----  SPONSORED!! <i>Thank you, Sharon Irene!!!</i> ---- </span></b><b> "Back to the Sea"</b><br>Eight years of writing and rewriting this one. Life. Relationship. A sonic journey through waterfalls and rivers "winding...all the way...back to the sea."<br><br><b>___________________________________________________</b></p>
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<p><i><b>You can order online through the PayPal buttons below; or send a check or money order to Fireweed Music Productions, P.O. Box 32455, Tucson, AZ 85751-2455. </b></i><i style="text-align: center;"><b>Please contact me at 520-444-7831 or fireweedmusic@earthlink.net with any questions.</b></i><br><br>___________________________________________________<br><br><b>$20  -  ONE (1) SIGNED <i>POSSIBILITY</i> CD</b><br>Shipped to you as soon as I get it into my hands (early August).</p>
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<br><b>$50  -  ONE (1) SIGNED <i>POSSIBILITY</i> CD + ONE (1) HANDWRITTEN LYRIC SHEET </b><br>Choose any one of my songs, and I will write out the lyrics on special paper. Make sure you specify in the little box below which song you want me to write out. It can be any of my songs. Shipped early August.<br><b>___________________________________________________</b><br><br><br><b>$500  -  5 SIGNED <i>POSSIBILITY</i> CDs + SOLO HOUSE CONCERT IN SOUTHERN AZ</b><br>I will come to your house and perform for two hours. You are welcome to help me make the set list. Please call or email me to arrange time and date during late summer, fall or early winter. Tel: 520-444-7831 / E-mail: fireweedmusic@earthlink.net.<img src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="1" width="1" /><br><b>___________________________________________________</b><br><br><b>$1000  -  10 SIGNED <i>POSSIBILITY</i> CDs + SOLO HOUSE CONCERT</b><br>I will come to your house and perform for two hours. You are welcome to help me make the set list. Please call or email me to arrange a date that works into my 2015-2016 tour schedule, otherwise you can help me with travel and accommodation expenses. Tel: 520-444-7831 / E-mail: fireweedmusic@earthlink.net.<img src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="1" width="1" /><br><b>___________________________________________________</b><br><br><br> <div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: center;"><b><i>"Now I sing a song to you</i></b></div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: center;"><b><i>Now I sing a song to me</i></b></div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: center;"><b><i>Of release, of our release</i></b></div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: center;"><b><i>All the stones are rolled away</i></b></div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: center;"><b><i>And we rise to a beautiful day of possibility..."</i></b></div>
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  <div class="message">Years ago, I wrote "Soldier Song" in honor of my loved ones coming home from war. This "war" continues today. Since it is Veterans Day, I wanted to share this song.<br><div><br></div><div><iframe name="mini" src="http://widget.cdbaby.com/09e93a0d-ef47-47b9-b834-9d9005e2b24f/mini/light/opaque" style="border: 0px; height: 100px; width: 100%;"></iframe></div><div>In gratitude for your bravery and service...and in love and light for the healing of humanity.</div><div>
<br>Amber<br><br><b>SOLDIER SONG</b><br><i><br></i><i>Lay your weary head down</i><br><div class="MsoNormal">
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<i>As I hold all the pieces</i><p></p>
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<i>Of your war torn Soul</i><p></p>
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<i>As I sift through the pieces</i><p></p>
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<i>Of my soldier come home</i><p></p>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><i>My soldier come home</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i>My soldier come…</i><p></p>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><i><br></i></div>
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<i>Oh…my love, it’s been a long year</i><p></p>
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<i>It’s been a long year</i><p></p>
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<i>Now you are here</i><p></p>
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<i>You are here </i><p></p>
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<i>With me…</i><p></p>
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<i>Oh…my love, it’s been a long year</i><p></p>
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<i>Now you are here</i><p></p>
<br><i>You are here with me</i><br><i><br></i><i>My soldier come home</i><br><i>My soldier come home</i><br><i>My, my, my, my soldier come home</i><br><i>My soldier come home</i><br><i>My soldier come home</i>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2AcA4J2izHs/VD1U5juzf2I/AAAAAAAAAhg/fe1dhZPw9lc/s1600/dust%2Band%2Bwater%2B1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2AcA4J2izHs/VD1U5juzf2I/AAAAAAAAAhg/fe1dhZPw9lc/s1600/dust%2Band%2Bwater%2B1.JPG" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="183" width="200" /></a></div>I watch a little one’s fascination with soft skin. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal">“Old and baggy," the jaded call it. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal">But to the innocent’s eyes, </div><div class="MsoNormal">     it's soft and magic. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal">I remember staring at my grandmother’s hands, feeling her blue veins and soft skin. </div><div class="MsoNormal">
<br>     I thought she was beautiful.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><p></p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal">Now, as I close in on the age that she was then, I find myself staring at my own “softening” skin, loosening around the edges that I use most. </div><div class="MsoNormal">
<br><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cKG4cFT5PNI/VD1VaeFaY4I/AAAAAAAAAho/SeKX23M_64I/s1600/dust%2Band%2Bwater%2B2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cKG4cFT5PNI/VD1VaeFaY4I/AAAAAAAAAho/SeKX23M_64I/s1600/dust%2Band%2Bwater%2B2.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="200" width="150" /></a>     My mind momentarily has thoughts of dread and judgment of "better days."<br><br>     But to a child, no such thing. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><p></p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal">This dust and water that covers us... </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal">     To an open mind, it remains as beautiful as a snowflake, </div><div class="MsoNormal">
<br>         holding the entire miracle of life in its mere being. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><!--EndFragment--></div>
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</tbody></table>It's winter in the northern hemisphere. We've passed beyond the "darkest" day of the year.  The sun has begun it's slow ascent, reaching a little higher in the sky every day.  The ground lays idle...preparing, readying for the coming seasons, many of its inhabitants in hibernation. Stars shine brightly at night.  Strings of light outline fences and trees and houses. Candles are aglow in windows. There is an air of mystery, reflection and regathering in the darkness...a sense of birth and possibility in the specks of light glimmering around us.<br><br>It is time to ready for the coming of another journey around the sun.<br><br>No matter the past, we can make change now.  Welcome, 2014.<br><br><br></div>
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  <div class="message"><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-udADg07YEj8/UnHZADWzIaI/AAAAAAAAAOE/L1KPXDrldhQ/s1600/Raise+Me+Up+still+2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-udADg07YEj8/UnHZADWzIaI/AAAAAAAAAOE/L1KPXDrldhQ/s1600/Raise+Me+Up+still+2.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="225" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">"They knew" </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Image courtesy of De Leon Moving Pictures.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Amber pictured with Deuce at <a href="http://www.equinevoices.org/horses/" target="_blank">Equine Voices Rescue &amp; Sanctuary</a>. </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><b>"To the ego mind, surrender means giving up.  </b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><b>To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving." </b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">~ <a href="http://www.marianne.com/" target="_blank">Marianne Williamson</a>, from her book <b><a href="http://www.marianne.com/books.htm" target="_blank">The Law of Divine Compensation</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">On Sunday, June 30th, 2013, I received a gift. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I had done everything I could to avoid doing the <b><i>Raise Me Up</i></b> video shoot that day. We had the hottest month of June on record in southern Arizona. And that specific weekend was projected to be the hottest weekend of the entire summer. I had no idea how I was going to pull off a weekend of sleep deprivation, four back-to-back gigs, 50+ miles of travel in between them, 100 more miles for the Sunday morning gig, a visit to my stylist and then another 50 mile trek to <a href="http://www.equinevoices.org/horses/" target="_blank">Equine Voices Rescue &amp; Sanctuary</a> for a Sunday afternoon video shoot. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>     It's a good thing my woe-is-me mind is not in charge. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I had called director <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0209667/" target="_blank">Marcus De Leon</a> several nights before, more or less begging him to reschedule the shoot until September. I had it all figured out...it'd be cooler, less stressful and the monsoons would add a beautiful backdrop. When he explained to me that he had an entire cast and crew with heavy equipment lined up and that rescheduling was not an option, I realized that my only option left was...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">     Well...<i>to surrender</i>...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And pray that I would maintain grace and music-video-composure amidst the sweltering heat of the desert.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I arrived on scene that afternoon relieved and grateful. Everything had gone smoothly, I was still awake, no travel issues, weekend gigs / hair / make-up schedule successfully accomplished, and I had remembered my boots.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Soon after arrival, clouds to the west began to build and grow dark and looming among the Santa Rita Mountains. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I kept thinking, "This is strange...monsoon season hasn't started yet, and only a 'hottest weekend of the summer' was in the forecast." </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Then the wind picked up, the temperature dropped, and a very recognizable scent of moist creosote wafted our way. Sheets of rain engulfed the mountains. Lightening came, thunder followed. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Everyone commented about how magnificent our unexpected "free" special effects were...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>     And that we better expedite the shoot. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So we grabbed one camera and rushed over to the open space where the horses roam in the sanctuary. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As I began to sing, two horses gathered around me. They were two of the original foals that were rescued when the sanctuary was started. They had been offspring of mares who were used in the <a href="http://www.equinevoices.org/horses/issues/premarin/#premarin" target="_blank">Premarin industry</a> and were headed to slaughter when the sanctuary intervened to rescue them. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">They stared at me intently. I felt like they saw into my soul and that we had some kind of agreement...to be right here, right now, making this song and video together...to share this deep sense of compassion, peace and healing with the world. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>     The connection didn't end.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As I let the last chord and word ring out, one of the horses put his head towards mine. We both leaned in and rested our foreheads upon each other...for what appeared as only a moment on the outside, but from within, <i>it felt like eternity. </i> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">     I could hear Marcus repeating, "Don't cut, don't cut, keep it rolling." </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">When we finally did "cut," the staff and crew said, "<i>It's like they knew...</i>" and almost as if in agreement, a big gust of wind blew through casting dust and rain upon us. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The encore of the season's first monsoon had arrived - despite the forecast, despite my worry. And in its grandiose production, <i>all that was required of me was to show up and play my role. </i>
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Indeed, these four-legged sentient beings, my brothers, with whom I walk upon the earth, <i>did know</i>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HJzDy6YvJ2k/UnISY_4ak7I/AAAAAAAAAOU/AdzhbY78flk/s1600/Raise+Me+Up+still+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HJzDy6YvJ2k/UnISY_4ak7I/AAAAAAAAAOU/AdzhbY78flk/s1600/Raise+Me+Up+still+1.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="179" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>"Sharing soul"</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Image courtesy of De Leon Moving Pictures</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>taken at <a href="http://www.equinevoices.org/horses/" target="_blank">Equine Voices Rescue &amp; Sanctuary</a>.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">That day, they taught me the gift of surrender. All I have to do is be present, and a power much greater than me takes care of the details.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><br></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>Oh, and one last thing...</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I had never sung to horses before, but I highly recommend it if you ever get the opportunity. </div></div>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal">Dear Mom,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IcDY-u-Gvqc/UamDA6vloqI/AAAAAAAAAIo/qog7h78rxKc/s1600/photo-15.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IcDY-u-Gvqc/UamDA6vloqI/AAAAAAAAAIo/qog7h78rxKc/s320/photo-15.JPG" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="240" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal">Thank you for the birthday pot that you bought me last month!  Please tell Dad that I nurtured my inner farm-girl and planted some basil. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal">I think it likes being by the piano window. I’ve been writing a lot of new songs this Spring, and my basil and roses and all the plant-clan near that window have really flourished.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><p></p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal">With that in mind, I've had some thoughts I wanted to share...</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal">Maybe Dad can start piping music out into the corn and bean fields. It seems to work work for my plants. He might have to refrain from playing rock music though. I’ve read some articles that plants flourish better with softer, more classical types of music. My plants have done well with piano, acoustic guitar and singing. I think his crops might like the guitar playing that he does every morning. So...instead of playing in the house by himself, he could go into the fields and play. Besides, playing to the plants and morning sun seems like a better option than being alone in the house - and if it does have a positive impact on crop yields, it’s a win-win situation. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal">Just an idea I wanted to share.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9D2V95nreLI/UamCNIVLF8I/AAAAAAAAAIc/zhoBuaUK5vA/s1600/photo-16.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9D2V95nreLI/UamCNIVLF8I/AAAAAAAAAIc/zhoBuaUK5vA/s200/photo-16.JPG" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="200" width="150" /></a>Since my basil is so robust this year, I might start giving it away at my shows. I mean, it’s high in vitamin K, pretty good in vitamin A, with a little bit of folate, calcium, iron, and magnesium. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal">I figure…healthy fans<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>= a sustainable music career. <p></p>
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal">What do you think? <p></p>
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal">I guess you can’t get the farmer and the nurse out of the musician, can you? </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal">Some things just are the way they are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal">Thank you for loving me the way I am :-)<p></p>
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal">I love you and miss you lots!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><p></p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal">Am<p></p>
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  <div class="message"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>I originally wrote this "reflection" for my newsletter on May 28, 2012. In honor of this day a year later, I would like to share it again...</b></span><br><br><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">Today is <strong>Memorial Day</strong> in the U.S. It is a day symbolized by flags and flowers – honoring the lives lost in war and celebrating hope of life re-emerging. As historian <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_W._Blight" target="_blank">David Blight</a> so eloquently writes, <em>"War kills people and destroys human creation; but as though mocking war's devastation, flowers inevitably bloom through its ruins." </em></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><br></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">I like to know “the story” behind tradition. Here is what I found out about this day:</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: arial; padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Originally this day was called </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><em>Decoration Day</em></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">. The first account of this type of celebration was in May 1865 at the close of the Civil War. Over 600,000 soldiers died in the Civil War, and our war-torn country was left trying to heal, reunite and make sense of devastation. In Charleston, South Carolina, a city left in ruins from the war, thousands of freed slaves, black people and white people gathered in a procession. Led by children, the parade marched through what had been a slave-owners’ horse-racing course. During the war, the race course was turned into an outdoor prison camp to hold the Union soldiers fighting for emancipation. The procession ended at the gravesites of the soldiers who had died in the prison camp. The celebration marked a “first” in our history: "a procession of friends and mourners as South Carolina and the United States never saw before" </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><em>(New York Tribune)</em></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">. It was a coming together of people – to heal, to mourn, to sing, to celebrate life. It was beginning of the ending of slavery and the reunification of our country.</span></span></blockquote></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">One hundred forty-seven years later, we are still affected by war. I wish peace to all who suffer loss and brokenness related to war. I am grateful for our coming together. As we walk compassionately with each other through grieving and honoring, we become strong and heal. I have faith in the victory of truth and goodness of this world - where there is no more oppression, bondage, walls to love or hindering of spirits.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><br></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><em><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">“We have it in our power to begin the world over.” ~<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Paine" target="_blank">Thomas Paine</a></span></span></em></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>I am grateful to all who give of themselves for the betterment of humanity...</b></span></div></div>
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  <div class="message"><i>This past January, I made a personal commitment to take monthly voice lessons. I came home from a lesson in April, and journaled the following experience:</i><br><br>I can hear it. The anxiety mounts. My brain kicks into full-banter mode, "Ugh! I'm pitchy. It's those high notes. Why can't I match them and be on pitch? I need to <i>make</i> time to practice. After years of doing this, you'd think I'd have it down by now."<br><br>It goes on and on. My voice strains harder. I completely lose focus and the pitch gets worse.<br><br>My instructor says with conviction, "Open." I snap out of the relentless brain chatter and watch her make a facial gesture of surprise, dropping her mouth down, opening it wide. There it is - her voice crystal clear, like that of an angel. Perfectly on pitch and purely expressive in flow.<br><br>Suddenly, my focus returns and I plug back into the energy that we are exchanging. I relax. I open.<br><br>And there it is...the pitch! I am one with it! I <i>become</i> the air that vibrates from me into all that is around me. I match her voice. We sing the melody with the piano. The "ahhh" moment happens - the sound dances, vibrating in synch with vocal chords and piano strings. And there is <i>music</i>.<br><br>She remarks, "Stop worrying about the pitch. At least you let it out now. That's progress from when I first met you."<br><br>Yeah, well, I guess I just need to let it out...step beyond the pre-recorded loop of "past woes and insecurities" rattling my brain hemispheres and settle into the simple, quiet present...and get out of my own way.<br><br>When I do this, I get out of <i>our</i> way. And thus, we can move the air <i>together</i> and make music.<br><br>Hmmm..maybe if we all plugged into the present moment of energy exchange with one another, the vibration of air <i>would</i> move mountains...or at least perceived obstacles.<br><div style="text-align: center;">_______________________</div><br>When I shed worry, fear and insecurity, I awaken to the <i>present</i>, the only place where I am free and unlimited in my commune-ication with <i>all that is.</i><br><br>"Two voices raised together call to the hearts of everyone, to let them beat as one. And in that single heartbeat is the unity of love proclaimed and given welcome...<b><i>for what is Heaven but the union direct and perfect, and without the veil of fear upon it.</i></b>" ~ A Course In Miracles<br><br><br></div>
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  <div class="message"><div><i>Adapted from a journal entry on December 30, 2010</i></div><div><br></div>I'm delayed in the Denver airport due to weather...not a surprising occurrence in the mile high city during winter. <div><br></div><div>I stand in line to order a meal at Panda Express. Balancing the computer bag on my shoulder, a guitar case in one hand and the styrofoam container in the other, I make my way to a seat and sit down to eat. The man next to me looks over and asks, “Is your flight delayed?” I reply that it is. He says, “Mine too.” </div><div><br></div><div>I smile and suggest, “Well, I guess maybe it’s time for us to take a little break in the Denver airport and eat.” </div><div><br></div><div>He turns to me and says, “Yes, I thought I’d take advantage of half-way healthy food...Where are you heading?” </div><div><br></div><div>“Tucson,” I replied. </div><div><br></div><div>“Wow, that’s where I’m headed too.” </div><div><br></div><div>We make small talk, sharing our knowledge about Tucson and eventually chatting about where we come from and what we do now. </div><div><br></div><div>As we finish eating, I notice I have two fortune cookies with my meal. I offer him the extra cookie. He accepts and jokes that I am now "responsible" for his "future luck."</div><div>  <p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We laugh and open our cookies. He asks me what mine says. I read aloud, “You often have more influence on people than you think.”  I smile and ask him what his reads.</p>  <p class="MsoNormal">He looks surprised, glances down and recites “Wednesday is your lucky day.” Then, he hesitantly says, “Well, I guess it’s a day late since yesterday was Wednesday.” </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I perk up and suggest, “Or, maybe <i>next</i> Wednesday is your lucky day. And if not that one, then the next one.” </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A reflective grin falls across his face. “Oh...you’re an optimist! Well, this is actually quite interesting that I got this fortune. I used to believe that Wednesday was my <b><i>unlucky</i></b><span style="font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"> day..." </span>His voice trails off for a minute, and then he finishes."It’s the day that I broke my neck in a high school wrestling match.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">His eyes momentarily look far away.</p>  <p class="MsoNormal">I was sitting on the right side of him. I had noticed that as he talked to me, he would stiffly turn his whole upper body to look at me as we were conversing. Yet, I knew from his history that he was an athletic mountain bike racer. I finally had the full picture.</p>  <p class="MsoNormal">He looks at me again, but this time, very seriously. “I don’t believe that anymore. Actually, I’m very lucky. I’m lucky to have had the people who were there for me when it happened...I'm lucky that they took care of me the way they did. If they hadn't been there, or if something had changed about what happened...well...I would have been a quadriplegic.” </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He went on to tell me about the time between that day that he broke his neck until now.  He told me about his kids, his very full life in Arizona and Colorado, his adventures mountain biking, and his dream to live in a sailboat one day and sail up and down the West Coast.</p>  <p class="MsoNormal">As he spoke, I knew that he was very aware of his good fortune. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A decisive grin spreads across his face. He finishes the conversation in conviction, “I’m going to carry this fortune in my pocket to remind me.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In hearing his words and feeling his presence, I am moved. I reflect about my "luck." My full life. The beautiful people that surround me. And my warm meal.  </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My heart fills with gratitude for my good fortune. And I am fully content - delayed in the mile high city airport, on December 30th, 2011, next to a man who shared his story of luck with me.</p>  <!--EndFragment-->   </div></div>
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