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 Bird On Water by Maret Kunze 19"x24" acrylic and mixed media
Maret finished this painting this week! You can see more of her bold and beautiful work at www.maretkunzeart.com
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 Diantha created a gorgeous squirrel barrier with Ann's help!   I love this picture that Diantha took of Ann and a Pileated Woodpecker made by a friend of theirs, a fabric artist named ShirleyMcConahay.
These throw pillows are for Lydia's study where she loves to curl up on the shaggy rug and read. Love, Jane Price   I just posted a new song called The Midst Of Spring
on the song blog. Click here to hear the song and you will also a hear a cardinal who was singing along with me toward the end of the song! I love love love it when birds sing along with us. Love, Kathleen  Yes There’s Music!
© Joanne Dahill 2020 Oh there’s music for this time Yes there’s music for my mind Oh there’s music to ease the strain Yes there’s music to ease the pain Oh there’s music for this time Yes there’s music for my mind Oh there’s music to ease the strain Yes there’s music to ease my pain Oh mother, shelter me! Oh mother, shelter me! Oh mother, shelter me! And carry me into your heart Oh father, comfort me! Oh father, comfort me! Oh father, comfort me! And carry me into your heart Oh spirit, hold me Oh spirit, hold me Oh spirit, hold me And carry me into your heart Oh Mother Oh Father Oh Spirit Carry me! Link to a wonderful new story from chorista Betty Lou...  Dear Earth-Loving Friends,
I hope you are all well and that you are being able to get outside to be nourished by this glorious, colorful spring! Desiring to share the beauty of spring with you, even though we may not be able to be outside together, I've written a story. In the midst of the lung disease that is Covid-19, this story is about forests as the breath-givers of the Earth and the need to conserve them. It's a story about the process of restoration of our own small bottomland forest and our hope of joining with others to form a chain of connected gardens for the sake of our wild species. And our own health. It's the first story in the Garden Sanctuaries section, called "Restoring the Forest, Restoring Ourselves." You'll find it here: https://earthsanctuaries.net/category/garden-sanctuaries/ I welcome dialogue. Your Comments are precious to me, and I always reply. I'm very grateful for your enthusiasm and encouragement. Love, Betty Lou Betty Lou Chaika 919-929-0753 www.earthsanctuaries.net Lullabye Treasures from Choristas  Dear Choristas, On March 25, and 26th, the Carrboro and Durham chorus were serenaded with lullabyes in our Cyber Zoom Chorus gatherings. I wanted us to be able to save this treasure trove of lullabyes and share them with friends, so am posting them below. So that you can find them, I am going to alphabetize them by the name of the person who sang them to us. I will put the Durham Chorus songs at the top and the Carrboro Chorus songs further down. Tonight I will post the sound files, and soon I will add the lyrics. Thanks to all who shared these songs, and to all who listened! Please tell me if you want your file taken down, and feel free to pass this link to anyone who might want to sing them. Love, Kathleen Durham Chorus - March 26, 2020  Lyra's Lullabye © Annie Marra Lyra loo Lyra lye, You have a beautiful light inside. Lyra Loo Lyra Lye, Dry that tear from your sweet blue eyes. Oh my little one Don’t you weep, Close your sweet eyes And go to sleep. Oh my little one Don’t you cry, Your daddy loves you And so do I  Inanay Capuana Aboriginal Australian lullabye Inanay capuana, inanay capuana Ay, ay ay oola Oola oola Oola ay ipi ay ipi ay Goowana goowana goowana goowana goowa Choo!!! Goowana goowana goowana gowwana goowaa Choo!!! Awake My Dear/ Come Here My Love words of first verse Hafiz via Daniel Ladinsky melody Nance Pettit and David Wilcox second and third verses © Jude Spacks Awake my dear, be kind to your sleeping heart Awake my dear, be kind to your sleeping heart Take it out to the vast fields of light And let it breathe Take it out to the vast fields of light And let it breathe Come here my love Rest into your waking heart Right here my love The peace of your waking heart Open in to the vast fields of light That let you breathe (so free) Welcome in to the vast field of love that lets you be  Honorable Moon, Good Evening! traditional Japanese lullabye Meggan learned this as a child in Japan Ootsuki sama konban wa Ashita no fune kogune Giiko giiko koide Yume no okuni ni maeri masho The meaning, loosely: Honorable moon, good evening As you row tomorrow’s boat Geeeko geeeko as you row (The sound of the oars rowing) Let us go to the great land of dreams.  I Will Sing You Home © Cynthia Crossen - you can hear Cynthia’s recording here: Always held, always loved, always in my heart you are Always innocent, always beautiful, always in my heart you are And I will sing you home, I will sing you home to me Across the vast and radiant sea, I will sing you home to me  Stillness melody © Paulette Meier words from a poem by Gerard Guiton 1994 Stillness Deep deep within us From small beginnings it flows Into the Living Water The Ocean of God Through our stillness God moves Carrboro Chorus - March 25, 2020  Deep Blue Sea Becky sang us the first and third verses of these wonderful John Bell words for the traditional Gullah Geechee song, and she sent us the rest of the verses. Deep blue sea, baby deep blue sea, Deep blue sea, baby deep blue sea, Deep blue sea, baby deep blue sea, Now there's peace, through all the land, And o’er the deep blue sea. Yesterday, war clouds hung so low... And now there's peace, through all the land, And o’er the deep blue sea. Love of life, finally turned the tide... And now there's peace, through all the land, And o’er the deep blue sea. Sleep my child, you are safe and sound... And now there's peace, through all the land, And o’er the deep blue sea. Deep blue sea, baby deep blue sea... Now there's peace, through all the land, And all the deep blue sea, Now there's peace, through all the land, And o’er the deep blue sea. You Are My Sunshine A New Verse Becky's new verse of true love... sleeping in the room with a noisy beloved! The other morning as I lay sleeping I dreamed I held you in my arms When I awoke dear, you were still snoring Now I can't get back to sleep.  Brahm's Lullabye Bernadette's lovely voice on this recording sounds to me as if it were recorded in the 50s's when her mom sang it to her. Lullaby, and goodnight To cheeks rose bedight; To fingers safely hid 'Neath coverlet white. If God will't, thou shalt wake With the morning's first light. If God will't, thou shalt wake With the morning's first light.  I See The Moon On her recording, Clare tells us the story of singing this song as a child. I see the moon, the moon sees me The moon sees somebody I'd like to see God bless the moon and God bless me And God bless the somebody I'd like to see.  Cowboy Lullabye Desert blue and silver on a pale moonshine Coyotes yappin' lazy on the hill And there's a little lightning on the far skyline Time for milling cattle to be still So now, the lightnin's far away The coyote's nothing skeery, he's singing to his dearie Eeyah, tomorrow's another day So settle down you cattle till the morning.  Kamino Napawiwinan / Sheltering Flame Anishinaabe Lullaby - "Traditional night song to lift the spirit into higher levels as one drifts off to sleep. Thus the night energies are more nobly utilized." Kamino napapwiwinin O gee ma Oo manidog Ish-Ko binadissiwin Ninoday ma Lay me to sleep In sheltering flame, Creator of the Hidden Fire, Burn free and pure for me My heart's desire   Usdi Yona - Little Bear - A Cherokee Lullabye I found out about this lullabye and watched a video of elder Dora Dunn teaching the song in Cherokee to a young man named Ryan Mackey. And the wonderful website I found it on is called Mama Lisa's World: International Music and Culture https://www.mamalisa.com/blog/cherokee-lullaby-usdi-yona/ Phonetics for the Cherokee words: Usdi yona, usdi yona Osta clegy, osta clegy Gee ah kee leu dah Usdi yona Osta clegy, osta clegy translation by Grey Wolf: Little bear, little bear Good for a while, good for a while Easting loudly little bear Good for a while, good for a while  Palana / Cradle / Lullabye This is a traditional Marathi lullabye from India that Mangala's mother sang to her as a child, and that Mangala sang to her daughter. When Mangala's daughter was born and her mom came to visit, she wrote out the words in Mangala's song journal book in the Marathi script, as well as in English phonetics and translation. Down below the typed translation and phonetics, you will see Mangala's mom's hand written lyrics. Subar uttamsa - An excellent carpenter tujhsathi milavila - was found to make a palana rangeet - colorful cradle for you banavila - it is decorated with Chahubajooni - parrots on all four raghumor basavile - sides palanat bala - Baby is layed in the nijwile - cradle Nij nij bala re - Sleep Baby deep jhoke dete me – I will rock you tujhala - Baby is very tired Kheluni bala bahu damala - from playing    I Love You So Much
© Barbara Milne Marilyn's sang this love fountain song to her children, and now she sings it to her grandchildren I've attached her recording from tonight I love you so much, I love you so much, I can't even tell you how much I love you. You're precious to me, you're precious to me, I'm lucky to have you as part of my life. I love you I love you I love you, I love you I love you I love you, I love you so much, I love you so much, I can't even tell you how much I love you.  "My wish is that people take up meditation for the well being of the Earth." Donell Kerns May the Earth be Well May the Earth be Well May the Earth be Well May every human wake up to sacred nature. May the insects be well. May the soil be well. May the plants be well. May the air be well. May the fish be well. May the oceans be well. May all beings be well. May every human who has abundance, take less and give more. May the Earth Be Well! Donell Kerns When Donell sent her chant to Betty Lou Chaika, Betty Lou wrote a modified version and asked Donell if she could post it on her website. Donell said "Whatever fits and feels right for people using it, is good." Here is the chant the way Betty Lou chants it: May the Earth be Well May the Earth be Well May the Earth be Well May humans wake up to sacred nature May the insects be well, may the soil be well, May the birds be well, may the air be well, May all plants and trees be well, May all animals, including humans, be well. May all humans who have abundance, take less and give more. May the Earth be Well. For more chorista creations, please go to top right of this page and click on earlier months. Or click on "previous" below. Sudden Telehealth in the Time of Coronavirus
I wake early on the first day of telehealth And realize how much I will miss the physicality Of where you sit in the waiting room And how you look up when I open the door How you gather your things and rise. No one does it just like you. How you enter as I hold the door, Passing unavoidably close To cross the threshold into shared space. This greeting No one does it just the same. For you the first glance is motionless except for that sardonic eyebrow. For you, a little shrug and smile. You, though, raise your chin and forge ahead, And you have a little swagger that claims the space and time. Each one so different from the other In that moment of encounter. I'll miss my own anticipation as I reach to open up the door. - Marguerite Dingman, LCSW Durham, NC |
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