With all the information coming at us through the internet I first thought: “Oh this is cool. I’ll just make a video and start spouting off about all the stuff I know” …. but there are so many talking heads out there. How to sift through to the gold?
Another thing is: how do we want to support our artists and those in the “gig” economy? With “social distancing” and quarantine the only way we can see our favorite artists is online. They need our financial support.
Many hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of us, have lost our livelihood - all concerts, workshops, and yoga classes have been canceled or postponed. I hear, “how are we going to entertain ourselves?” Wow! Is life about being entertained? Are we little children that have to be entertained? Or are we being “sent to our rooms?”
Are we shut up in our cells or are we being invited to see the open doorways? People in captivity actually grow from creating relationships with their inner life by contemplating, focusing, and thinking about what they love. Victor Frankl writes in his book, The Meaning of Life“ “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
For the past 30 years, I have immersed myself in practices that take me to “My Room.” In that room I have found my voice, my Inner God if you will. Through singing, I have connected to Holy Name that is beyond description. I’ve done it alone. In many rooms. No one wanted to get up early. No one wanted to explore the inner depths where ultimate freedom exists as “Us,” or the calling to Be versus do. But I did.
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