Artwork from Zarah Reinhard  - 'The Music We Are' week at the EIAB/ in  Germany 

Dear Friends

peacesounds.org

A song inspired the writings of peace teacher and author Thich Hhat Hanh,
In writings says how we can imagine that inside we have an island, a place of peace that peace outside comes from - it's there and its where we can rest 
 

Where do you go when you're on your own
and your far from him
where do you go...

Where do you rest when everything's a mess 
all is more the less, where do you rest...

There's a place and there are trees there
and there's water running through
close your eyes child
and find that place in you

and when you need shelter for your sleep 
a roof for your relief
when you need

where do you find trust in troubled times
a space between the lines
where do you find

There's a place and there are trees there
and there's water running through
close your eyes child
and find that place in...
There's a place and there are trees there
and there's water running through
close your eyes child
and find that place in...
find that place in you.

There's A Place (live) for Peace Sounds 2

Walter on harmonica - love to you Walter - beautiful to play with you

A friend once shared, 'I just want to let myself be seen', Yes I said, 'I feel the same'. Feels to me that the seasons and stars and weather show us how.


Let yourself be seen
like a flower in the garden
like a thank you or a pardon
these words are bringing bloom to what you mean
like the colours of the meadow
there's wisdom in this world you know
just watch the way the woodland comes to green
let yourself be seen

Let your spirit show
like the stars above the hillside
the love that starts there inside
within and continues there to grow 
as it has forever as the starts that come together
remind us that there's nothing we don't know
when you let your spirit show

Let your feeling free
as the clouds when they're becoming do
allow the water running through
down into the rivers and the sea
as our shared emotion from the air becomes an ocean
somewhere we can sit beside and breathe
let your feelings free

Let yourself be seen
like a flower in the garden
like a thank you or a pardon
these words are bringing bloom to what you mean
like the colours of the meadow
there's wisdom in this world you know
just watch the way the woodland comes to green
and let yourself be seen

Let Yourself Be Seen (live With Walter)

This is a song that has arrived in the village and become one of those Plum Village songs- so can’t credit please do mail me if you know more.

Played at the recent Webinar - 


We are all the leaves of one tree
We are all the waves of one sea
We are all the stars in one sky
The time has come for us to live as one

photograph - Plum Village Autumn leaf.

We are all the leaves of one tree - joe

Shamanic Journeying

20-minute Double-Drumming Track~ Sandra Ingerman

Siwan

Emergency by Blythe Pepino

A song about the good things that have come out of the Great Pause (times of Covid-19)

Checking in on neighbours, cherishing our friends
Playing with the children … I hope this never ends
Affairs finally in order, counting ways we're blessed
The best night's sleep in a very long time, being satisfied with less
Being satisfied with less

Make this the new normal: to be generous, to be still
Make this the new normal: to be grateful … say you will
Make this the new normal

Blue skies empty of aeroplanes, roads with no automobiles
Oceans quiet, the cruise ships docked: this is how our earth heals
We're breathing cleaner air now, we can hear the spring birdsong
Whales and dolphins enjoy the freedom denied them for so long
Denied them for so long

Make this the new normal: to be generous, to be still
Make this the new normal: to be grateful … say you will
Make this the new normal

Awaken to this reverence, awaken to a love that's true
Be a hero! Come home to your mother
It's being asked of me, it’s being asked of you
It’s being asked of me and you

Make this the new normal: to be generous, to be still
Make this the new normal: to be grateful … say you will
Make this the new normal: let's build a kinder world
Make this the new normal: how an oyster creates a pearl
Make this the new normal

Best of Monica Max West

Make This the New Normal

AWARD-WINNING SINGER-SONGWRITER

CDs available on my website (http://www.monicamaxwest.com); downloads available on CD Baby! 

Joyous earth dweller, friend of Wild Things, feminist, vegan, painter and maker, wildlife photographer, general creative, Buddhist following the teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh...grateful for the beauty of life every day! 

From 2023, all of my recordings will be consolidated on this channel.

Please also follow me on YouTube and Instagram (Monica Max West) for original songs, Plum Village songs, wildlife photography and Moonbow the Sun Bear!

Blessings xx Max

Make This the New Normal

MonicaMaxWest

Recent comments

Ink

Related tracks