Song-a-week 2025

Community Singing

This gratitude medicine song came to help me recover from the loss of another dear human and appreciate the gift of each day. The acoustics in the shower room of a local swimming pool sounded great, so I recorded it in there on my phone, and came out to catch the harmonies of two women spontaneously joining me in the locker room. Truth is stranger than fiction...

another day on earth w locker room harmony.mp3

Song-a-week 2024 #26

I wrote the first verse of this acapella chant in January and the last three verses wormed their way into my brain this last week and a half, after singing the first verse with great enjoyment with a bunch of other women at a gathering.

These are all reminders for myself about some aspects of life that I want to remember that I have access to!

Note: 
For community/group singing, the "trust, trust" part goes back and forth between the originator and the rest of the group; the rest of the song can be sung together, alone, or by repeating each line, in community singing fashion. 


Spark of the Universe (Chant)

Song-a-week 2025 #40 - Prompted by a lovely gathering with some mind expanding workshops and experiences, and lots of wonderful people.

The chorus can work as a chant: 

every little bit of life has medicine to share - every little bit (2x)

every little bit of life has medicine to share





Photo is something growing on a piece of wood that resembled a tree.

Every Little Bit of Life

Song-a-week 2025 #1

Prompt: The passage of time

These are two stories I heard from these fires in LA.  My heart goes out to all those affected. 

(Trigger warning - If you've been through a fire, this could be hard to listen to!) 

Photo credit: Josh Edelson/ADP/Getty Images (Fair Use)


#palisadesfire #eatonfire #lafires #hurstfire #sunsetfire #climatechange #forestfires #firefighters #fireinsurance


Where Fires Burn

Song a week 2025 #2 -

Prompt: Off the Rails

I was staying up way too late doomscrolling, LA fires, war, impending doom of 4 years of a dangerous megalomaniac, climate change... And by the time I tried to go to sleep I was just too stressed. I need a lullaby. So, I started singing myself this lullaby. I found it quite soothing. 

I turned on the light wrote down the words, went downstairs and recorded a bit on my phone, and went back upstairs and went to sleep.

Simple, but effective.

photo credit: A painting I picked up at Goodwill with no signature

Dream Deep (Lullaby)

Song a Week 2025 #3 

Prompts: 
Lost in Translation (using another language) 
and Roses (well, that's the part that I used) 

The title/chorus is a french phrase that is generally translated as meaning "Let's send them packing". Specifically, it translates to "Let's send them on top of the roses", as in, throw them into the thorns. 

If you are curious about what I refer to in the last line of the last verse, check out electiontruthalliance.org , SMARTelections.us , and Dire Talks on YouTube. The graphs are intriguing, if not straight -up damning. 

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Photo: Adobe Stock Image

Envoyons-les sur les Roses

Song a week 2025 #4

Prompts:
- Dorian Mode
- "How Did You Know?"

This started with some chord progressions and the chorus came up, kind of non-dorianish, and various bits of verses and a bridge came in with some of the dorian-ish progressions.
I usually write lyrics first, so this was different. It's more cohesive than I thought it would be... Although it doesn't make perfect linear sense, It's still a song. 

It's basically reflective of the angst of going through a month everyday since January 20th, with general disconcerted musings. 

Trigger warning - It includes some vague imagery of a disturbing situation. 

Where We Are Going

Song a Week 2025 #5 

The "Ask an Axolotl" song was stuck in my head, like an earworm that has hacked into many of our brains recently. And what's going on in D.C. would not leave my head either. 

I wrote another song this week, but I couldn't finish work on it, because this one was insistent on being written. 

It's odd writing about this insanity with a children's song, but, this is all so very, very odd. 
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Photo Credit: Fair use; author unknown; please advise, if known

DOGE Hacker (Ask an Axolotl Parody)

Back in my body

Song a week 2025 #32

Here's a song I have been working on that I was not able to record until this week. It's a "pocket song", just a singable little ditty that has 3 parts. I finally got my equipment working well enough to get a version of it done, even though the vocals aren't perfectly blended. This is my first attempt at home recording in a few years, other than on my phone, so it can only get better from here! I also am very glad that I figured out how to deal with latency issues and just get a version of it done!

now we're going to sing, a little happy song 

we'll make it simple so, that you can sing along 

we'll sing it once or twice; we'll sing it till the end 

then when we get done, we'll sing it round again

Photo taken at Oregon Country Fair, July, 2025



Sing a Little Happy Song (Chant)

Song a week 2025 #50

Catching up to finish off 2025 with some community singing pocket songs; here's a rough recording of another one. Still learning about timing and layering and using audacity, so take this as just a sketch, work-in-progress.


Water, water falling/flowing down
I am like the water falling, falling/flowing down 

Where does it come from and where is it going?
Can I flow so easily down... down?

Water Falling (Chant)

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