Mary's 'Voice It' - Music for Wellbeing

13/10/2023

Wordle 846 4/6

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Yay - it seemed so complex !

09/07/2023

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Makes up for not getting it yesterday !

08/07/2023

This is what I used to do in Cornwall before I became a punk fairy

22/06/2023

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Surprisingly tricky

19/11/2022

Another lovely recorder playing afternoon - shame about the ceiling

19/11/2022

10/11/2022

A lovely Saturday with Wessex recorders and their visitors plus great conductor and composer Lindon Hilling, this piece is about Cauldey Abbey on the island off Tenby

18/06/2021

Surely the candle experiment proves ordering Pints and Pie In PUBS Is more likely to spread infection than singing!

16/07/2020

When I held my phone to play this I felt vibration from this lovely sound.

I miss live singing so much
I miss the in breath around me
The nod or tilt of heads
The empathy of the leader
The expression in her eyebrows
But most of all
I miss the vibration through my body
Of harmony
Nano particles
Within my body and soul and around me responding to the
Waves.

Hushabye Mountain (composed by R. Sherman and R. Sherman, arranged by A. Beck) performed by the Staude Sisters with piano accompaniment by James Turner.

04/04/2020

This clever young lady wrote and recorded this / singing all the parts and it’s beautiful

27/03/2020

I love this guy’s writing - Jeff Foster- nothing is not ok!

NONE OF US ARE IMMUNE

It’s going to be okay.
It really is.

We will face this situation together with love, humour and patience.
We will weep together, we will laugh together.
We will discover togetherness in our apartness.

And the worst of it will end one day.
And we will have learned so much by then.

We will now be called to face very difficult feelings inside of us.
Fear. Grief. The loss of an old way of life. Our devastated plans.
We will learn to face ourselves. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.
Nowhere to go except within.

A sacred quarantine.

We will learn to face our boredom. Our restlessness. The part of us that wants to be somewhere else, with someone else, doing something else, having some other experience, in some other Now, living in some other life.
We will let go of the wonderful future we had planned.
We will let the fantasy future die, release it, and grieve it.
We will return to the solidity and warmth of the present.

We will make the present into our home.
We will begin again, here, build a new house on new soil.
We will explore a new way of life.
Strange, at first. But full of possibility.
Slower. Kinder. Quieter.

We will talk to each other honestly about death, and life, and impermanence, and how we feel about all the changes that have come to us and our loved ones.
We will learn to value life a little more.
Yes, perhaps we will learn to value life a little more.

And live with our hearts cracked slightly open to the elements.
And lean into uncertainty, and find our salvation there.

None of us are immune to change.
To rupture. To the shattering of old, familiar forms.
This is the way of things, this has always been the way of things.

From this perspective, nothing has gone wrong.
Crisis simply means “turning point”, and none of us are immune from the turning.

The breaking of the old makes way for the birth of new.
It has always been this way.

Love. Humour. Patience. With these things, we will come through.
Stronger than before. Renewed. Ready.

I am sending you all my love, my friends.

❤️

- Jeff Foster

24/03/2020

And a mini session of breathing, warm ups and singing from Music for Wellbeing

24/03/2020

Trying out some clips of music for wellbeing on Facebook before I try YouTube.

20/03/2020

Let’s join in!

19/03/2020

https://naturalvoice.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Let-us-stand-ALL_.mp3

11/03/2020

Lovely recorder recorder playing posted on the Hampshire Recorder Sinfonia page. Lovely to be playing in the Sonfonia!

Vivaldi Recorder Concerto in C major RV443, 3rd movement. Arrangement by Bertho Driever.

25/02/2020

Goodbye party - Truro Singing for the Brain - 4th Feb 2020 - a sad afternoon before moving to Hampshire

01/02/2020

Cheerio cake for my lovely TruroMethodist girls at Music for Wellbeing - will miss you all but so thankful to have had you all in my life these last years xx