Emmy Rossum delivers the standard These Foolish Things with so much ease, infusing it with graceful elegance. I love it. One of my favorite songs sung with a contemporary spin in a classic style. Bravo!
An accomplished actor and a lovely person.
This single is available on itunes released this year by Warner Bros. Records.
So cool.
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Monday, June 17, 2013
Great Men are Everywhere
The Great Man Project kicked off on SynergyTV's Gift Play Love application with Garrett Hunter reading I am a Great Man using a crowdsourcing process to gather pictures of the Great Men in our lives. Each photo of the friend, father, brother, grandfather included means the world to the individual who honored them by sharing them with us. The Synergy effect was powerful and deeply moving to experience. Inspired by the sharing from the hearts of all who joined in the conversation.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Friday, June 14, 2013
Be clear on your fear...
Change your perception.
We are all here to share our gifts beautifully.
Take today to say thank you for all that you have and all that you are.
lots of Love,
Melanie
We are all here to share our gifts beautifully.
Take today to say thank you for all that you have and all that you are.
lots of Love,
Melanie
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Own what you Know in your Heart to be True
In so many ways every moment represents a crossroads. Which direction are you going to take?
Will you follow your heart or stay in a pattern? Will you act from your fear or will you let love guide the way? You have a choice. You can choose today to be the most authentic expression of your beautiful self.
One of my friends said today "Your voice is a muscle. Use it." Enjoy the fullest expression of your most elegant spirit.
lots of Love,
Melanie
One of my friends said today "Your voice is a muscle. Use it." Enjoy the fullest expression of your most elegant spirit.
lots of Love,
Melanie
Monday, May 13, 2013
And God Himself Will Wipe away all Tears - Biblical Mel
Maya Angelou has been a point of supreme resonance in the course of my days. She has shared her wisdom. She has stood strongly in the space of freedom. Her words forever imprinted as healing participants and symbols in the world. These words from her poem Our Grandmothers inspires a deeper look into the heart of that which drives us ever forward in the face of adversity to take that next step, to stand up to fear and say what must be said with every ounce of our being:
The Divine upon my right
impels me to pull forever
at the latch on Freedom's gate.
The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my
feet without ceasing into the camp of the
righteous and into the tents of the free.
Onward we march into the truth that never changes. Without ceasing.
When the way seems impossible. When the journey ahead requires every ounce of faith, remember what lies within you is wholly free and lives in perfect peace. You can do what you thought could not be done with love in your heart and justice speaking its truth.
As you extend Love you will realize that you did not make Love and that you are more than what you have made. You will be a happy learner of the lesson Love brings because It teaches you release from nothing and all the works of nothing. The heavy illusions that you project from a personal mind and that seem to bind you to despair you do not see are nothing until you extend Love in their place. And then you see your illusions have disappeared and so they must have been nothing. Because you teach Happiness and Freedom you will see Happiness and Freedom reflected back to you. ACIM
After all of it, after the journey is complete and the surrender has unfolded and the tears are falling and it feels like they might never end, this passage from The Holy Bible: King James Version. 2000 The Revelation of St. John the Divine lights the way for me.
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Ome'ga, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
Love leads the way, the detox in the form of our tears is necessary and when it is written I shall wipe away all tears. It means exactly that. ALL tears are felt and heard and held. This can be your comfort in the wake of whatever befalls your circumstance. Faith is vision beyond what the eyes can see. Take the soft focus of love and step into and through the fires of comfortability into the deeply refreshing air of the truth.
Enjoy today.
lots of Love,
Melanie
The Divine upon my right
impels me to pull forever
at the latch on Freedom's gate.
The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my
feet without ceasing into the camp of the
righteous and into the tents of the free.
Onward we march into the truth that never changes. Without ceasing.
When the way seems impossible. When the journey ahead requires every ounce of faith, remember what lies within you is wholly free and lives in perfect peace. You can do what you thought could not be done with love in your heart and justice speaking its truth.
As you extend Love you will realize that you did not make Love and that you are more than what you have made. You will be a happy learner of the lesson Love brings because It teaches you release from nothing and all the works of nothing. The heavy illusions that you project from a personal mind and that seem to bind you to despair you do not see are nothing until you extend Love in their place. And then you see your illusions have disappeared and so they must have been nothing. Because you teach Happiness and Freedom you will see Happiness and Freedom reflected back to you. ACIM
After all of it, after the journey is complete and the surrender has unfolded and the tears are falling and it feels like they might never end, this passage from The Holy Bible: King James Version. 2000 The Revelation of St. John the Divine lights the way for me.
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Ome'ga, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
Love leads the way, the detox in the form of our tears is necessary and when it is written I shall wipe away all tears. It means exactly that. ALL tears are felt and heard and held. This can be your comfort in the wake of whatever befalls your circumstance. Faith is vision beyond what the eyes can see. Take the soft focus of love and step into and through the fires of comfortability into the deeply refreshing air of the truth.
Enjoy today.
lots of Love,
Melanie
Friday, May 03, 2013
Brotherhood. Calendar of the Soul. Mel Style.
Soul Force in Action... Cultivate the garden of your being. Get in touch with the powerful magnificence and magic of May.
Goals meant to raise consciousness while acting in a practice of Love, join us together in that sacred space where the principles of peace and freedom flourish and the natural human harmonies are always singing and humming and stirring possibility.
As always, I hope your soul's expression breaks through utilizing whatever language is necessary for a full rich radiant vibrance that fills your being. Listening to what speaks to you.
Take today to bring so much Love and Fearlessness to your efforts and bare witness to the revolution of the heart. This timeless intersection between these two allies allows as Socrates said for 'the inner and outer man to be as one' striking the divinely individual unique and perfect note.
In this space of human crossed destinies where this tone vibrates in harmony with our being the entire universe rejoices, animating the eternal heavenly symphony, as this sound of our celestial DNA is reminded of its ability to move as Wordsworth put it 'in one society' in service to our deepest most authentic self.
When these human notes join together, the stirrings of our collective heart become a radiating social force bringing each of our inner struggles and personal journeys into the larger unfolding experience, giving context and allowing nature to enact its most beautiful elegant outflow beyond the gravity of our day to day circumstance.
As Rumi put it---
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,
There is a field. I will meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
The world is too full to talk about
Language, ideas, even the phrase each other
Doesn’t make any sense.
It is time to help each other transcend these rings of our personal fire's and head outward into the field of possibility beyond differences and judgement.
In this space of human crossed destinies where this tone vibrates in harmony with our being the entire universe rejoices, animating the eternal heavenly symphony, as this sound of our celestial DNA is reminded of its ability to move as Wordsworth put it 'in one society' in service to our deepest most authentic self.
When these human notes join together, the stirrings of our collective heart become a radiating social force bringing each of our inner struggles and personal journeys into the larger unfolding experience, giving context and allowing nature to enact its most beautiful elegant outflow beyond the gravity of our day to day circumstance.
As Rumi put it---
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,
There is a field. I will meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
The world is too full to talk about
Language, ideas, even the phrase each other
Doesn’t make any sense.
It is time to help each other transcend these rings of our personal fire's and head outward into the field of possibility beyond differences and judgement.
Goals meant to raise consciousness while acting in a practice of Love, join us together in that sacred space where the principles of peace and freedom flourish and the natural human harmonies are always singing and humming and stirring possibility.
As always, I hope your soul's expression breaks through utilizing whatever language is necessary for a full rich radiant vibrance that fills your being. Listening to what speaks to you.
LOVE, MEL
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Arthur Schopenhauer - German Philosophers, equal parts beauty and terror in the pursuit of the truth....
"...the body is the phenomenal form of the will to live."
Schopenhauer Essay On suicide
We all live with some form of existential angst. We all find our own way to move with grace through the horrors of our demons and enjoy the exploits of the ecstasy of living.
"The truth, however ugly in itself is always curious and beautiful to the seeker after it." M. Poirot Agatha Christie The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
Schopenhauer Essay On suicide
We all live with some form of existential angst. We all find our own way to move with grace through the horrors of our demons and enjoy the exploits of the ecstasy of living.
"The truth, however ugly in itself is always curious and beautiful to the seeker after it." M. Poirot Agatha Christie The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
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