The other evening I went to a Buffy St. Marie concert here
in London, Ontario. I hadn’t heard Buffy
in person since the early days of the Cambridge (Mass.) folk scene and the
heyday of the Newport Folk Festival.
We’re talking the 1960’s here, folks!
Back then, Buffy stood alone on the stage alone with her desire
and her passion accompanied by her songs and guitar. She broke new territory by giving her soul
permission to reveal itself to us through her message and music. She asked her
heart to speak. It did and still does.
In an era when the historic and traditional were celebrated,
Buffy burst onto the scene with her own songs emerging from her personal
history her reverence for the land, and the traditions of her people. Then, as
now, she gave herself to the music and her soul soared. We soared along with her.
Today Buffy struts and dances the stage. Her music, old, new, traditional, sappy or
heart-wrenching proclaiming her allegiance to the desire that propelled her
from her country roots on to the stage from the start. Now she is backed by a high-energy band of two
rocking guitarists and a drummer, joy pouring through their bodies blanketing
the hall with celebration.
And isn’t that what each of us seeks in every moment of our
lives, to be fueled by the passion of our desire? By our desire to be our authentic selves; the
desire to bring our deepest works and our deepest longing to the world; our
desire that the Life Force use us as yet another way to celebrate the ecstatic
beauty of riding the flow through our unique ways of being.
How will you invite desire to flow through you today?
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