music for your spirit's journey

Post-concert notes

I included four songs in my concert last night that have yet to be included on a CD collection.  For those of you who bought a CD and are scratching your head, trying to figure out how you can hear these songs again, I'll include them here.

1. "Hot Cup of Miso" was the toning we all did together at the beginning of the second set; it first appeared on my facebook page in April, 2010. 

A Hot Cup of Miso on a Rainy Night

2.  I first shared "Healing Prayer" with e-zine list members and facebook friends in April 2009.  

Healing Prayer

3. I had originally intended to share "Wake UP!"  on the album "Born to Live in These Times"  After some good feedback from my beta-testing team, I decided that it belonged with a different collection of songs.

Wake UP!

4.  "Peace Now" was first introduced at Unity Center of Columbia's Christmas 2009 concert, then offered again at the World Peace Day celebration on New Year's eve with Raven Wolf C Felton Jennings II and Margaret Waddell.  It has appeared twice on this blog already, so instead of re-posting the song link, I'll share the YouTube video.

who teaches the teacher?

This song was created for a service at Unity with the same title. 

It is for anyone who chooses to reach beyond their local definition of themselves . . . into that endless reservoir, for resources that transform, uplift, heal, nourish, sustain.   

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who teaches the teacher?

who teaches the teacher?

who opens the eyes

to whom do I go when I’m hoping to show

how to walk in a way that is wise?

who mothers the mother

when the days are so long?

who strengthens my pace when I’m holding the space 

for generations to come?

come

back to your source

there’s just one force

in all we are looking for

here 

deep in the heart

miracles start

just open the door

who heals the healer,

who fills the well?

my soul knows the answers

when I listen she tells

I can search the whole world from mountain to sea

but she brings me back home again to me

©2009 Trina Brunk and Laughing Turtle Publishing, all rights reserved.  If you choose to share this music, please link back to me at http://trinabrunk.com

The Best Gift

My brother-in-law's young son died on Thanksgiving.  this song is for both of them, Mark and Ryland Ort, and for all of us. 

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the best gift

I’ve had dreams that taught me how to die

surrender it all, go back to the light

but what I need right now is to know how to live

with these feelings I have, how to forgive

well, maybe life’s no different from dying

maybe there’s no other place I’m going to

maybe surrender’s how I live life free

cause I never left home and there’s nothing to forgive

I’ve had times when it was all I could do

to drag myself through a day or two

what I need right now is to know how to live

to find something real of myself to give 

maybe the light also shines in me

maybe day by day is how I find my way

maybe surrender’s how I live right now

and to be the best gift that I can give

©2009 Trina Brunk and Laughing Turtle Publishing, all rights reserved.  If you choose to share this music, please link back to me at http://trinabrunk.com

This Simplicity

This song came through in response to a request for a Thanksgiving themed song.  I remember when I was small hearing things like “we should be grateful” at Thanksgiving.  I didn't feel grateful.  What I really felt was overwhelmed by the large groups and the hustle and bustle to get everything to the table in appropriate timing. I felt empty looking at the huge mountains of food.  I assumed that I was probably deficient in the gratitude department.  Now I realize that I’m just programmed to appreciate different things.  This year, for example, choosing a quiet day at my home with my little boys and my husband, I feel grateful for the spaciousness and the peace.  I tend to feel very internal this time of the year and while I love spending time with my dear friends, I also cherish a full day with nothing scheduled.  Feeling gratitude for little things -- the last brilliant red leaves that are hanging on to the tree in our backyard and for the cool air and sunlight, for the fact that stuffing is really easy to make (just add hot water).  And for the ability to learn a lesson of ease and grace (no one in our family really loves turkey.  We can do without it next year).  What are you thankful for today?

(click on the bar below to hear the song)

 Thissimplicity

This Simplicity

©2009 Trina Brunk

I held my heart up in my hands

saw and released all my demands

watched them scatter like fallen leaves

and I’m free now, free to be 

be who I am

and I’m grateful, more grateful than I ever thought I could be

I’m grateful to be here with you and grateful to be me

all aglow in the wonder of this simplicity

how life gives me everything I need

how life gives me everything I need

I place my life in God’s hands

knowing Spirit understands

what this soul is longing for and what this body needs

and what I don’t need anymore

drop it back at heaven’s door

release into the flow and let it carry me

and I’m grateful, more grateful than I ever thought I could be

I’m grateful to be here with you and grateful to be me

all aglow in the wonder of this simplicity

how life gives me everything I need

how life gives me everything I need

I place my life in God’s hands

knowing Spirit understands

what this soul is longing for and what this body needs

no need to hold tight in this circle of light

when the heart of all abundance lives inside of me

and I’m grateful, more grateful than I ever thought I could be

I’m grateful to be here with you and grateful to be me

All aglow in the wonder of this simplicity

how life gives me everything I need

how life gives me everything I need

©2009 Trina Brunk and Laughing Turtle Publishing, all rights reserved.  If you choose to share this music, please link back to me at http://trinabrunk.com