Category Archives: Let The Music Play

LTMP Podcast #2: Presence

Howdy.

In this week’s podcast we venture into a discussion on presence, being in and a part of your moments, participating in and along with spring’s bloom, and much much more.

Also, the podcast is now officially in iTunes and you can subscribe by clicking here.

Godspeed in your music making and may we all continue to grow our capacities so that we can hold more of the next experience.

Show notes:

Quote: As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. Marianne Williamson

Quote (didn’t make it into the podcast): When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you’re waiting on the elevator – instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence. Elkhart Tolle

Ekhart Tolle’s book, The Power of Now.

Follow Brynn Gustafson @ https://instagram.com/brynngustafson/

Musical Artist this week that we looked at was David Ramirez. Please give his record a spin by clicking here.

Benediction:
May you be here.
May you be in and with the questions of your children.
May you be in and with the needs of those you serve.
May you be in and with the moments of those that God has given you to experience this place with.
May your eye catch and hold the explosions of the bloom in spring.
And May your soul find the courage to listen and answer the flower’s question, ‘are you in bloom?’

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The Choice

There are many, but THE CHOICE that will predict the experience that is heard, felt, and seen and the story that unfolds with you and your music will you be whether you choose to be an artist or whether you choose karaoke.

Here, this is free. Did you know that karaoke is two Japanese words put together: empty (kara) and oke (orchestra)?

You can be an empty orchestra or a full symphony.

Your choice.

And this choice makes ALL the DIFFERENCE in your world and the world of others.

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LTMP Introduction Podcast 1 – Take 1.

It’s raw.

It’s redneck.

It’s just the beginning.

Enjoy.

Show notes:

Aural Method

Pat Dodd http://www.Pdodd.com – Great thoughts, insight, and intro to super-good tunes.

Donald Miller’s book – A Million Miles in a Thousand Years.

Quotes:

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. Frank Kafka

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the ocean in an entire drop. Rumi

The music is the experience that is heard, felt, and seen and the story that unfolds when one’s divine identity, core conscience, God giftings, core beliefs and core values come together, come alive, and crescendo in the universe we exist in. Ashton Gustafson

The border between music and noise is always culturally defined
—which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place;
in short, there is rarely a consensus …
By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be. Jean-Jacques Nattiez

The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that tragedy is great. The truly great tragedy is the destruction of our human resources by our failure to fully utilize our abilities, which means that most men and women go to their graves with their music still in them. Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Red Carpet

That’s what gratitude is. It’s the red carpet.

It’s the path rolled out for us so that we can walk wide-eyed, ear-tuned, and grounded, but with elevated senses towards all of the eclecticism that so beautifully surrounds us.

Oh, and you can’t forget this red carpet is padded with humility and bound by grace. It questions, “can you believe this?” and responds with a speechless, undeserving acknowledgement of the ungraspable.

When you know you’re on a path, you sure can take a lot more in.

Look around. Prepare the way.

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