With the New Year comes days of struggle but just as many, if not more, days of peace and satisfaction. Already this year, a project is developing from within. It is called, BREATHE AND RECEIVE, Challenge Confusion. It is a way to look for ways to balance a lifestyle committed to well-being-ness!

A poem came to me yesterday. I’ll share it with you. I put it to music and gave it a read. Kind of reminded me of the late 50’s in Berkeley, where coffee houses hosted practicing poets who read on stage with an occasional bongo playing in the background. — a great memory. I have recorded this poem with this memory in mind.

Have fun with your interpretation!

MAKE PEACE, RELEASE

 Long ago I gave up.
 Urged to be generic.
 Breath, Air,  Body, Soul, Spirit, 
 Food, Job, Money, Family, Rules.
 What manner of life have I found myself in?
 So I breathe and I breathe and I breathe and I breathe.
 So I breathe and I breathe and I breathe and I breathe.

 Am I happy or am I sad?
 Of that I am not certain.
 Heart beating messages of love.
 Why this great despair?
 Am I doomed to this confusion?
 Yet I breathe and I breathe and I breathe and I breathe.
 Yet I breathe and I breathe and I breathe and I breathe.

 Time is closing in each day
 Like fog I cannot stop it.
 No other can see my Secret,
 spoken between my breath, 
 Am I adrift, alone, forgotten?
 Yet I breathe and I breathe and I breathe and I breathe.
 Yet I breathe and I breathe and I breathe and I breathe.

 A sudden breath inspires Me
 It is I who knows the Secret.
 No longer in fog, lucidity lights the way
 I am at peace and divulge what was hidden:
 All you need is love. All you need is Love.
 And I breathe and I breathe and I breathe and I breathe.
 And I breathe and I breathe and I breathe and I breathe.

 — Barbara Dean Aliaga

Download a recording of Make Peace, Release.