Lover’s Leap
It takes great courage to leap into love
To love someone so deeply, sometimes you lose the very ground beneath your feet
To lose a loved one is one of the greatest fears of the human heart
One of the greatest tragedies
And yet it is a part of the cycle of life
To live, to love, to leave this body for another story to begin
These songs were written as apart of my healing journey, my journey of grief as praise
Traveling upstream to deliver the ashes of my Beloved Binah Zing back to the ocean
To the Island of Galiano where she was first conceived
To the Island of Cortes for the Gene Keys Seven Sacred Seals event she dreamed of being apart of
And finally to the island of Orcas where she departed from this world, disappearing into the sparkling reflections of Diamond Bay
As her ashes melted into the crystal waters, I played her these songs, written for the Beloved
It takes great courage to leap into love
To choose to love another, even after losing my dear Binah
I choose to love with all my heart, love my partner Carrie Anne, love my family, love my community
I choose to pray with every particle of my being, through every note, through every breathe
I offered these songs I had written, eyes soft with tears, heart trembling with fears
I was no musician, I was just a fool who wanted to play
And my allies, my dear friends, circled around these portals of praise
They wove their music around my compositions in perfect harmony
They helped me have the courage to Leap
To leap into love…
every day
Though it is terrifying sometimes, this mystery calls for us to surrender into her glory
These are songs of beauty, of Grief As Praise, of great offerings to the Beloved
The Beloved inside every cell
The Beloveds we have lost
The Beloveds we dance with still
The Beloveds we have not yet discovered
The Beloved is always here
If we have the courage to leap
Special Thanks to the masterful musicians Manose Singh (manosemusic.com), Marshall Lefferts (cosmometry.net) Theo Brama (entheomusic.com), and Richard who helped craft these beautiful songs. Thank you Teresa and Wendy of the Center of Awakening Presence for offering us time in your music studio to record. Thank you Amma Li, Bijah, Carrie Anne, Po, and all of our OneDoorFul family for adding your magic and support to this unfolding.
