Dear Ones,
During this age of madness, this age of extinction, this seeming apocalypse, we the vital, creative, force of humanity must give ourselves permission and purpose to feel, experience, create and share joy - true joy, not distraction - during these troubled times. It’s like creating an eye of a hurricane, or mild weather and respite, fresh air to breathe and fresh water to drink, perfectly ripe delicious fruit to eat. WE NEED THIS!
This is our job. In so doing we revitalize our emotional bodies, our nervous systems, we revitalize the good feelings, we tend the garden of love, harmony, beauty, joy, pleasure, devotion, cooperation and all that is deeply inspiring. This is important, sacred, soul watering work. Let it be worship if you are so inclined.
Be an alchemist. Transform the angst into a compost for this garden. Don’t stuff it, sweep it under the carpet or deny it - USE IT - create contrast, create healing. This helps you, this helps all who interact with you.
BOLSTER the good feelings. Turn stress into fuel to exercise the muscles of positivity.
To be real and successful about it, we can treat it like a massage - touch the pain intelligently and lovingly, release it and replace it with glowing love and beauty. In this way we raise consciousness and create healing. We allow joy and well being. We pull a weed of negative energy and with alchemy, transformation it into something beautiful, delicious, joyful.
Have a multi course emotional meal of many flavors of emotion, and follow it up with a naturally ripe, delicious sweetness of joy. Let your emotional heart free, let it soar above the clouds of doom and gloom from time to time and fly in the sun shine, under the stars.
The following works available express joy:
FEBRUARY: in the “Mother and Son Mask Project”
Flying with Ravens into the Sun - oboe quartet no. 2
Many flowers in the 100 Flower Series (along with many other moods!)
(Works in the 100 Flower Series are:
Illuminations
Arc en Ciel
A Dozen Roses
Visions
Duet #2 (of 7) in “The Secret of Ravens”
The new set of duets for oboe, or oboe d’amores, or oboe and oboe d’amore: “Springtime Dances” will be premiered Sunday March 8th, 2020 in Paris - see home page. Later this year they will be commercially available. Many of them are joyous as well.
Best wishes.
K.J.P.
(Feb.1, 2020)