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The Seed
03:59
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(Inspired by Aretha/January 2018)
Here we are on the way, falling to the ground
Taking root where we may, to destiny we’re bound
Roots reach out ----
Calling out, see and say – training to the sound
Burst and bloom every day, come right out the ground
Roots reach out ----
Crawling backwards, walk in place – How to make it count?
Listen doctor! Teacher hear! Tear those silos down!!!
Roots reach out ----
Plant the seed, it will awake; branches know their way
Finding earth in Napa soil, the growth begins today
Roots reach out ----
“It is great to have roots, as long as you can take them with you.”
---Gertrude Stein
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Tiny Traveler
02:34
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(Inspired by Kevin Nugent/Rachel Talmentez/Sharon Zone/Mary Beth Steinfeld/Kristie Brandt/Stephanie Paravicini/Ann Stadtler/Linda Gilkerson/Larry Gray/Berry Brazelton; February--March 2018)
Tiny Traveler – what did you bring?
What do you need, your Soul-Life to feed?
Tiny Traveler -- a fussy one
Tiny Traveler ---- we can just be in The Fan
Tiny Traveler – with eyes so wide
Drink it all in, reveal and begin
AMOR AMOR… a magical door…..
AMOR AMOR…. from here you will soar….
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Back to Back
03:03
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(Inspired by John Hornstein; January 2019)
You got my back and I got yours
We can reach and grab so we can grow some more
You lean left and I’ll lean right
Let’s stay in tune so we don’t learn to fight!
I can get to know you BACK to BACK
So much I can show you BACK to BACK
You can wear my boots for now...Just bring them back…
All our differences make us the same
Who we really are is not our name
We can love and learn right from the start
Just don’t let the world befoul our hearts…
I can get to know you BACK to BACK
So much I can show you BACK to BACK
You can wear my boots for now…Just bring them back…
Good is how we leave Bad behind
What’s mine is yours & yours is mine
There’s what we believe and then what is true….
There’s room for me and there’s room for you!!!
I can get to know you BACK to BACK
So much I can show you BACK to BACK
You can wear my boots for now…Just bring them back…
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The Invitations
03:18
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(Inspired by George Downing/August 2018; also Cherisse Northcutt, Barbara Stroud/April 2018)
Does it come with honey or with frost?
With renewal or with a cost?
So many signals to get crossed…
The Invitations made, the Invitations lost…
Outside movie…Inside movie….
See the story…..Be the story
Watch it all unfold frame by frame
Time stands still but meaning gains
Layers and layers, give them all a name
Speak for the baby, voice/make his claim
Outside movie…Inside movie….
See the story…..Be the story
Outside movie, Inside movie…
The invitations made, the invitations lost…
The invitations made, the invitations lost….
The invitations made…..
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Brain Upside Down
02:42
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(Inspired by Bruce Perry/May 2018; Connie Lillas/July 2018; also Pat Levitt/January 2018)
Thoughts are spinnin’ round my head
My body’s jelly or it’s dead
Hearing colors seeing sounds
Cuz my brain ain’t workin’ cuz it’s upside down!!
I’m turning over desks
Making everything a mess
Can’t stop or slow it down
When my brain ain’t workin’ cuz it’s upside down!!
Like Bruce and Connie said
My mind escapes my head
Like a watch that’s overwound
Guess my brain ain’t workin’ cuz it’s upside down!!
Like Bruce and Connie said
When you’re combo blue or red
You get lost before you’re found
When your brain ain’t workin’ cuz it’s upside down!!!
It’s like Bruce and Connie said…..
Your brain ain’t workin’ when it’s upside down!!!
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The Ring
03:35
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(Inspired by Maria Quintanilla; Stephen Hinshaw/Nov. 2018)
So many orphans…so many losses…Floods wash away what the wind only tosses
Keep them all busy – maybe they’ll forget
The beginning broke the bough
But the end is in the now
The circle of time…the circle of love…the circle of truth…
Brings it all around, brings it all around…
The beginning broke the bough
But the end is in the now
Mother left a ring with grandma….just for me….One day it will bring the home
A place that is mine…..A message crossing Time…
The beginning broke the bough
But the end is in the now
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Mean Thing City
03:17
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(Inspired by Alexandra Harrison/September 2018; Carol George/April 2018; Serena Weider/July 2018; also see Krasilovsky & Spier, The Cow Who Fell In The Canal, 1982)
(A special note of gratitude to Dr. Karl Pottharst, who introduced me to the work of John Bowlby)
A cow wants an adventure…He falls into the canal
He floats downstream to the city…Without his farmer or his horsey pal
Watch out!! You can get hurt!! Watch out!! Don’t know where your base is!
Watch out!! There’s no one to keep you safe! Watch out!! They’re all strange faces!!!
Lost in Time – It don’t feel pretty…
Lost in Space – you feel itty-bitty…
Could I survive in Mean Thing City….Mean Thing City…
I don’t have a map for this village….I don’t know where the grass is…
There’s smells and colors and honking horns, and big eyes staring through glasses…
Watch out!! You can get hurt!! Watch out!! Don’t know where your base is!
Watch out!! There’s no one to keep you safe! Watch out!! They’re all strange faces!!!
Lost in Time – It don’t feel pretty…
Lost in Space – you feel itty-bitty…
Could I survive in Mean Thing City? Mean Thing City…
Lost in Time – It don’t feel pretty…
Lost in Space – you feel itty-bitty…
Could I survive in Mean Thing City? Mean Thing City…
Could I survive??
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The Border
02:35
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(Inspired by events that took place during the Fellowship in June/July 2018)
I’m feeling Presidential, I’m feeling like a King
I’m looking at the Border, a wall is just the thing!
The power to divide them, to fill the world with fear
I’ll be a man for all the ages….
It’s time to put their babies in cages
I’ll put their babies in cages….
I’ll put their babies in cages…
I’m standing at the Border, I’m standing in a line
I walked a thousand miles, my children at my side
We made it through the desert, now the officer
Is showing me some pages…
Saying he’ll put my babies in cages
He’ll put my babies in cages…
He’ll put my babies in cages….
I come from California but my relatives they came
A century ago, when they had another name
I’m looking at the Border, I know it’s crossed a line
When I’m feeling so much rage
Because we put their babies in cages…
We put their babies in cages….
We put their babies in cages…
I just don’t know where our shame is….
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(Inspired by Kyle Pruett/September 2018; also by Melinda and Julian)
From a fountain to a well
In your waters I will dwell…
Across the years…Bridge the fears with strength and with play
Crossing rivers you helped me to navigate the way
Now I find my own ocean and swim it every day….
Gushing and gushing, you gave and gave
Now I come to you for wisdom and a wave….
From a fountain to a well
Read a story, tales to tell
Across the years…Bridge the fears with strength and with play
Crossing rivers you helped me to navigate the way
Now I find my own ocean and swim it every day….
Gushing and gushing, you gave and gave
Now I come to you for wisdom and a wave….
From a fountain to a well….
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Dance With the Barrier
04:31
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(Inspired by Steve Graner/November 2018; Bruce Perry/May 2018)
I’m spinning in my Billy-Brain – it likes what it knows!!!
Are you bringing shame, are you slinging pain?
I’ll just fuck up your show!!!
Can you dance with the barrier?
Let it be, but love it away….
Can you get on your knees, make peace with Billy…
Can you dance with the barrier?
I’m spinning in my Billy-Brain – and brains don’t like surprises….
I can lose it all again and again – but will you survive my crisis??
Can you dance with the barrier?
Let it be, but love it away….
Can you get on your knees, make peace with Billy…
Can you dance with the barrier?
Taking and sending….Breathe in the pain….send out relief
We are all stuck…We can all share the peace
Make it contagious…..Contagious!
Can you dance with the barrier?
Let it be, but love it away….
Can you get on your knees, make peace with Billy…
Can you dance with the barrier?
Can you get on your knees? Can you get on your knees? Can you get on your knees…
And dance……?
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(Inspired by all 32 cohort souls, faculty, the hawks, balloonists, Kristie and John)
Color patterns and wavy curling lines…
Rainbows and leaves, unicorns and trees, endless flavors of mandalas
Stay busy busy busy but keep your mind open!
Are you one of the doodlers?
An incessant restless noodler...
Does it serve you as a soother?
Are you one of the doodlers?
Be distracted to attend…line up wasabi peas!
Count balloons that take off, watch for the hawks, think about lunch and maybe writing songs…
Stay busy busy busy but keep your mind open!!
Are you one of the doodlers?
An incessant restless noodler...
Does it serve you as a soother?
Are you one of the doodlers?
Thirty-two souls, 24 hours a month -- Who was it thought this thing up?
Travel so far yet reflecting as one
We need a fishing guide and lots of coffee cups!!!
Are you one of the doodlers?
An incessant restless noodler...
Does it serve you as a soother?
Are you one of the doodlers?
Regulate your bodymind -- any way that works!!!
What we learn we can teach…reflect…extend your reach
Regulate your bodymind – any way that works!!
Are you one of the doodlers?
An incessant restless noodler...
Does it serve you as a soother?
Are you one of the doodlers?
Are you One!?!
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(Inspired by Marie Anzalone, Julia Bantimba, Jennifer Black, Margaret Ritchey/Nov-Dec 2018)
Spaghetti kids and fainting goats…..The tsunami of events…
Spaghetti kids and fainting goats…Stuck in the tunnel behind a fence…
The body knows its arousal curve…
What can I do next?
Pushing the blocks…rocking the horse…System is turning on!!!
Smell the crayons… taste all the noise….System is turning on!!!
It’s a whole new world of possibilities
What can I do next?
Wiggly…wobbly…floppy…bejiggedy….
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(Inspired by John Hornstein, Steve Seligman/January 2019; and Kristie Brandt)
Busy Busy Busy, running around
Putting out fires before smoke comes around
Pushing Pushing Pushing but still losing ground
Not even listening just chasing the sound…
Don’t just do something – stand there!
Before you reason and relate – gotta get regulated, baby!
Yeah yeah yeah….
Churning churning churning – caught in the grind
Your brain is always thinking but nothing's in mind
Searching searching searching but missing the signs
Looking looking looking but your insight is blind
Don’t just do something – stand there!
Before you reason and relate – gotta get regulated, baby!
Yeah yeah yeah….
Emotions move at the speed of light
But thinking only moves at the speed of sound
Unless we can tame them and settle inside
They’re nothing but a trainwreck in the body bound….
Don’t just do something – stand there!
Before you reason and relate – gotta get regulated, baby!
Yeah yeah yeah….
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The Bridge
03:11
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(Inspired by Reflective Group members; Mary Beth, Monique; Kristie)
From a seed to a bridge…Up and across
From a seed to a bridge…Up and across
It grows and spreads… many roads and skies ahead
It grows and spreads… many roads and skies ahead
It begins and it ends…The pathways heal and mend…
It begins and it ends…The pathways heal and mend…
From a seed to a bridge…
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