Mayan Dream Musings

To all of you who follow this blog….my apologies that days have been skipped.
This does not mean, however, that my creative process of living my music has stopped. New music continues to be composed and released. And equally or more important, the rest of my life is learning to come into the same place as my composing life. I live in the arms of the sacred. I compose from the place of my deepbody/soul. There is no other place for creativity to emerge, and no other place for love to exist.

Now, we are going to Philadelphia to celebrate a first birthday. New life emerging and growing in a marvelous. cute, talented one year old. She is awesome indeed and has all of the potential to make a real difference in this world in an ensouled way.

When I get back on Tuesday, I will mail the “mailing” that is sitting on my desk which announces the birth of the Healing Music album and the continued process of the Soul/Deepbody music. This is my service to you. Continuing to give out the music that is giving to me.

Happy weekend to all! love to you.

Well….family events took over and it’s now been a week since I posted anything on Musings. Family is wonderful and life-giving, but I gained a new appreciation for the amount of time that is needed for me to create music and all of the process that surrounds that…including writing the blog.

During the last week, the Healing Music has been composed. The cover is designed and printed, and the entire project will be finished tomorrow. Creating the Healing Music was a stretch for me because it was a new process.
Normally, I tell a story on a CD….for instance Heart of Sky/Heart of Earth tells the story of creation. In the new Healing Music, the music was the vibration of each of the chakras. It was fascinating composing for the chakra system. I also asked the question “What is healing” and explored this through the music. The 50 minutes of music is almost all one piece. I have defined nine tracks, each for a different chakra and in a different musical key, but the music doesn’t sound like nine different pieces of music. It is one piece of Healing Music.

Without the scaffolding of a story to tell, and with the requirement that Healing Music shouldn’t knock the individual off his/her chair (for example, loud drumming or thunder or piercing bells), I had to reach into new places of the unknown. That was fun!

The only outer structure for the Healing Music was the musical key for each chakra, and the above-mentioned requirement that the music be gentle but powerful. The inner structure was my willingness to go “down the rabbit hole” into a new place of the unknown world.

I hope to be back on track now with the countdown to the emergence of EMERGENCE, and everything else that is happening.

Have a beautiful evening.

Yesterday I had the privilege of going to a graduation recital which featured gifted young musicians from a local high school. WOW! I found it pretty wonderful that these young people had such a love of music that they would prepare and give a recital on the same weekend as their graduation….fitting their music in around parties and official graduation events. They gave us all the gift of beautiful music for about two hours.

The world is exploding with musicians and artists. Together all of us will bring the planet into its next phase of the sacred feminine….the heart. Obviously working only from the limited perspective of the intellect without anything else has not worked….we have war and famine and global warming and violence in our cities. However, yesterday was one more knowing that artists in all fields are coming forward to join us, who are already bringing art or music or writing or photography and all of the others arts through the sacred feminine onto our planet.

EMERGENCE continues to emerge. When I first recorded the beginning of this album, there was some music recorded that I later took off. This week I put it back on. It found it’s place once the entire album had been recorded. So now the album feels complete. Ann Beeching sent me the latest photo of her painting which is the artwork for the cover, and it is also almost complete.
Every time I listen to the Emergence music, I find myself saying to one track or another “I love this part of the music!”. I DO LOVE THIS MUSIC! I also love the artwork that is being created by Ann.

The release date feels like it will be the end of August. I will most likely be sending the raw materials for the complete CD package to Discmakers in July.
The process of the duplicating, package design, and various proofs, etc. will take around six-seven weeks. Then I will have CDs back here in my studio ready to ship, bring to CD signings, and performances. How exciting is that!

The MP3 samples of each track, the description, and Ann’s painting will on the Mayan Dream website this week sometime.

Love to all of you.

Yesterday’s Musing was the clearest description I’ve ever given of my process of recording. That sharing with you of such an intimate part of my own life propelled me today into one of days of “in between”.

We all know what those days are like. They are necessary when a new part of a person is coming into being. Everything feels sort of fluid, and the mind is kind of mushy. Emotions may be running high. I may not be too sure of where I’m going and who I am. My physical body needs lots of rest, and I usually don’t really know why. That’s what today was like.

In the middle of a change, I don’t often even know that change is happening.
Not a particularly comfortable place to be!

So what did I do today? I walked and worked outside and slept a lot and stayed pretty quiet.

However, this evening, the new is anchored and I can see parts of the new vision. My body feels rejuvenated….my emotions are quiet….my mind is quiet but fully active. I am totally connected to who I am as a spiritual being.

I’m sharing this with you because we all go through this as we continue to make the commitment to be creative, spiritual “edgewalker” beings.

Thank heavens we are all in this together, and have one another to support us and love us. Have a beautiful evening.

On Wednesday I was back in the recording studio for five hours creating Soul/Deepbody music for a wise woman who is an inspiration for me always.

On this beautiful, windy, juicy Friday I thought I would muse on the blessing of creating music.

Thank you, thank you, thank you to the Source of all that is for creating me as a musician in this lifetime. I LOVE composing, playing, recording music. It is my passion! Thank you, thank you, thank you to all of you who have commissioned Soul/Deepbody music from me. It has been my joy to go “down the rabbit hole” into the unknown and bring back your own unique music which transforms your life and mine. Thank you, thank you, thank you to all of you who have purchased my music and now use it every day for inspiration, healing, transformation, and in your professional work. Without your personal and financial support, I could not continue to compose and record.

We are all interwoven in this large spiderweb that spiderwoman has spun. My creation of music supports you, and in turn you support me. How wonderful is that!

What happens as I compose?

My mind becomes the servant of my Soul. I am aware and receive information as I compose concerning what instruments come next, and what the music is all about. My mind..intellect…is never in charge but is part of the weaving.

As I play, my body is the servant of my Soul. It obeys the direction to play drums, or my Kurzweil keyboard, or other instruments. I have learned to take good care of my body because it is asked to work very hard in the recording studio. I eat properly and am learning that WAY more exercise is needed to support the level of recording that I am doing now. Tom Tempel and I always take a food break halfway through a recording session. My homemade muffins are becoming legendary!

My technical formation as a musician is the servant of my Soul.
It is woven so completely into who I am that it simply serves…..never is dictator of any part of my composing. There is no technically right or wrong…just the knowing that the music is what it is meant to be.

There is NEVER a desire of my Soul to please any outer person with my music. The journey down the rabbit hole into the unknown leaves any desire to please behind, and the only desire is that the music come forward as Soul and the unseen world demands of me.

My entry into the portal of the unseen is direct and instant. This is a gift to me for my life work. However, this gift requires that I be very responsible with my caring for my physical, emotional, mental selves. When I forget….life gets very uncomfortable!

Recording sessions are joyful, playful, intense. This teaches me that the journey of the Heart is not meant to be deadly serious. Tom Temple has a terrific sense of humor and so do I. Joy and good humor support the journey into the unknown, and guarantee that all of my music comes from my Heart.

Again….thank you! thank you! thank you! Without all of you, my life as a musician would not be possible. Without all of you I would not have my own business and my own studio.

Blessings to you on this beautiful Friday.

Yesterday was focused on family and friends….enjoying friendship and having time just to “hang”.

The weather outside was cool and the sunshine was awesome. It felt like all of nature had been given a complete cleaning through the storms of the weekend.
Everything felt extra bright. Do the storms of our lives (sounds like a Soap Opera name doesn’t it) also have the same effect on our creativity? Just a thought.

How can we have already completed six days of June? There is a rumor that time speeds up the older you get, and I am pretty sure that time is going much faster at the age of 60 than it did at the age of 30. During June I am celebrating “1…13…18″… the celebration, honoring, and thanksgiving for one year of self-employment in the studios of Mayan Dream Productions, Int’l, the thirteenth year since my first retail license, and the eighteenth year since the release of my first album (Mayan Dream). Susan has created wonderful marketing materials to celebrate this anniversary, but they are just now going out to all of you. Expect them to arrive via e-mail or snail mail or both on Friday.

New ideas just keep popping up. HERE IS SOMETHING REALLY FUN!
Starting next week I am going to create a short piece of music every week for free download from my website and from my MySpace website. This short piece will celebrate some aspect of Mother Earth and will expand the essence of Heart of Sky/Heart of Earth, Emergence, and yet unknown third album of the Earth Trilogy. Is this cool or what!! You know that creating music is my great love, and this allows me to create in yet another way.

Next week will also be the creation of the new Healing album, and the piece that will be going on everyone’s Soul/Deepbody music album….whether you already have a Soul/Deepbody music album, or whether you are still waiting to order your own unique Soul/Deepbody music.

Lots of wonderful stuff! The adventure continues.

Here is a request for this week. Would everyone who is reading this Musings entry take a moment to send healing energy to those who are in need of healing.
They will feel it, and it will make a great difference in their lives. Many thanks from their hearts to yours.

With love to all.

A dear friend of mine celebrates his 59th birthday today…which of course means that his journey through his 60th year has begun. So many of us have either completed 60 years, or are very close. This a transformative time. Everything is in place for the next 30 years to be supported as a spiritual, joy-filled phase of life which has its own purpose, its own destiny. The adventure continues!

Musings on the process of website growth:

You have watched me experiment with so many website options, concepts and have lived with me through changes of many kinds. Since the Mayan Dream website is my primary contact with the outside world, it reflects my own life changes constantly. My Mayan Dream website is a living, breathing entity in its own right. For a while I had to take credit card capability off of the website. It is now back on for all CD orders, and for Soul/Deepbody music. Of course the new photos are up, and the new description of me. Watch for the Emergence page and MP3 files to go up next week.

Musings on June 4th.

This was a day of doing the mundane things that keep a business going. I paid bills and updated my data base and blogged and did some exploring about whether to put a download store back on my website (the answer was no).
As I sit here, I am surrounded by all of my music. CDs of The Beloved and the special edition of The Beloved, and The Journey of Joy, and Mayan Dream/Dancers of the Flame, and Heart of Sky/Heart of Earth are everywhere. All of this music is supporting my life in a richness…..when I let it support me. That is the journey!

With love to all.

I promised all of you a daily update, and somehow yesterday got totally away from me.

As promised on Friday’s blog, I was able to go into the recording studio and “tweak” the Emergence album a bit more. Then Tom and I created the MP3 snippets of each track that will go onto the website for you to catch a short glimpse of this new music. In the midst of family appointments, I also had time to update my data base and get it ready for this next week’s marketing.

The coming week will be full of family-related events. One of the blessings of my life as a business owner is that I can set my own hours. We have talked about this many times in this blog. It’s no one else’s fault if my boss doesn’t allow me to get away for family and friends! However, the marketing materials that Susan and I created together have a natural timing to them, so Mayan Dream Productions also has to have a significant amount of time this week. It’s all about my service to you: music and writing.

We have had a lot of storms today, but I was able to walk quite a bit. The colors of everything become so vivid and so beautiful after strong lightening and downpours of rain! The mother and father robin who have a nest of new babies right outside my studio door are also very happy. The worms will be coming out to provide an easy catch. Sort of a McDonald’s event for robins.

Over the last few weeks, my right arm and side had to go through a reorganization in order to be able to create the next music, and to allow Mayan Dream Productions to expand into a celebration of the completion of my first year of self employment as owner of my business . As I explained in a previous Musings writing, this reorganization did create pain for me, and did limit some of my ability to play keyboard and to drum for a few weeks.

The photographs that are on my website were taken during my time of reorganizing. If you look at the photos (check out the home page and the artist page) you can feel that my arms are not really fully expanded into the Emergence energy. Check out my legs and feet also…..you will be able to feel that there is a more “full” energy that is not there yet. It’s all moving, and if I was to have my photograph taken today, both arms, wrists, legs, and ankles would look and feel different to you. There is no pain left for me. Everything is more fluid.

I am excited to really focus my walking and exercise to allow the new emergence of music and of business energy to move through my whole body.

It’s a fascinating adventure!! and one that I embrace totally.

Here is a another adventurer: check out Carol Tingel’s new website. Go to my home page and click on the link for Carol that is at the bottom. She has a great new CD set and it is worth everyone checking it out. Fabulous!

Now I am going to be doing what Sunday’s are best for…..putting up my feet and eating good food and just enjoying life.

Have a beautiful evening.