Beautiful and profound, Judith Kate! You are a true inspiration to me. I especially appreciate how you continually stride forth on your Soul's mission despite anything that may want to distract you! Deep Bow!

"What happened to you" is the question I've been asked the most over the 64 years of my life, feels good to respond in this way. This is one of the first songs written for this current project.

Sitt'n on the corner
People ask'n what happened to you?
Yeah I'm Roll'n down the avenue
People ask'n what happened to you?
Everywhere I go everybody wanna know
What happened, what happened to you?

If you wanna hear my story,
Of the ashes and the glory,
You better sit down
I could tell you lies you wanna hear
Or confront you with your deepest fear
Right now

What happened?
Tell me what happened?
When people see what you survive
They can't believe you're still alive
Say what happened to you?

In the street the people pass'n
If they're cry'n or they're laugh'n
they'll be ask'n
What happened to you?

If you wanna feel the danger,
How child becomes a stranger
You better beware
Born bright as a shooting star
Then changed in to bleeding scar
Midair

What happened
Tell me what happened
When people see what you survive
They can't believe you're still alive
Say what happened?
What happened to you?

What Happened?

The first single off of Kate Copeland's forthcoming EP entitled "Red and Blue," to be released in 2016.

Unpuzzle Me

Here Still
(Written for the 50th Anniversary of Ben Lomond Quaker Center, near Santa Cruz, California)

‘The forest breathes. Listen. It answers. I have made this place around you.  
If you leave it you may come back again saying Here….  Stand still. 
The forest knows where you are.  You must let it find you’  
–David Wagoner, from his poem Lost, 
based on a NorthWest Indian Elder teaching

Here I am
Still -- With All there Is
Here	Still

Alive in One place
Fall open and receive Grace
Take in All that Is
Be still in the Light that lives

If you’re lost on your Way
and Night has recovered Day
Stand still, heed the Dark
Til you feel the Light of the Stars

Here I am
Still -- With All there Is
Here	Still

And when Silence breaks
A ripple of Spirit quakes
Come clear, speak Peace
Be still like the redwood trees

Here I am
Still -- With All there Is
Here	Still

Each Heart, every Soul
All glorious to the Whole
In turn, among Friends
Discern All that never ends...

Here I am	
Still -- With All there Is
Here	Still

Here I am	
Still -- With All there Is
Here	Still

c 2018 Judith-Kate Friedman
Patience & Adventure Musicworks (BMI)

Judith-Kate Friedman, Lead Vocal
Aimée Ringle, Harmony/Descant Vocal, Bodhran
Gwen Franz, Viola

Recorded 2018 by CJ Lazenby at ToolShed SoundLab, Port Townsend, WA

Here Still -- Judith-Kate Friedman (demo)

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