My dove,
I know how depressing it can get looking out on humanity and our planet, watching the relentless degradation and toxification of the biosphere by huge corporations and wars and the careless masses...
I have been interested in caring for the environment from a young age, via captain planet and ferngully and over-dubbing animals on the discovery channel. :) I could really relate to them, and to this day enjoy impersonating my cat, haha.
But it was when I was in college in a class called "Women's Wisdom and Nature" with my mentor Liz Faller, that everything clicked.
In this class where we connected to the seasons, the elements, the celestial bodies, our fellow humans, all while out in wild nature...
It was like that first lightening bolt that is suspected to have created life on a rock by the ocean somewhere.
I FELT the connection in my BODY: Gaia AS my body.
This eureka moment started a downpour of creativity - songs started flowing easily and rapidly through me.
I guess putting this simple concept - that we are One with Nature - into a song to move our bodies to is apt : perhaps it is a connection that can only be made and understood in a sense-engaging, lung-pumping, heart-beating way.
The connection we need is already within us, in our bones and blood, waiting to be re-activated when we step into a caring and curious relationship with the natural world.
I believe we need all sectors on deck to remediate our deadly patterns, and the arts can work on a subliminal, profound level.
The music video I'm releasing for the song today is designed to enhance and strengthen the connective tissues between ourselves and Gaia. The term Gaia sounds so new-agey, but is actually a scientific term I studied at Prescott College (a college known for its radical environmentalists in the hippy era). Gaia is a name for the self-regulating, almost organism-like behavior of our entire biosphere.
Through experiences with creating and performing this song, I've come to sense the ingelligent Life Force that WANTS to help humanity heal as she heals.
I hope you'll let this song and videography wash over you and ultimately recruit you as the ones who were foretold - the army of Rainbow Warriors rising up to protect Life Herself.
While in the past I've taken months and even years to finish mixing a song (oof), this time I wanted to try a deadline and be done by Earth Day. The song is getting mastered as I type this (!!), and I'm aiming for a 3pm ET YouTube premiere if all goes well. How to get the premiere link:
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See you in the chats!
xoAnnabeth NicAnmara
