Category: Healing

My Dad's Song

3/20/2018

From son to father

This is a song from a son in California, and his extended family, to a father with ALS disease in East Germany.

There are three sections of the song, representing three different phases:

Section 1 = A simple piano tune arose in son Torsten's mind, and stayed with him as he thought about his father, far across the sea, struggling with ALS

Section 2 = A short movement to represent the pain of separation and great loss

Section 3 = A weaving together of all of the pieces of a life, family members, love, old memories understood in new ways, and a gathering of love and gratitude for a beloved father. If you listen carefully you'll hear the trumpet--Torsten's father's instrument, interwoven with some electric guitar, a more youthful sound--the sounds of the father and the son. A song to lift everyone up and prepare for whatever is next in the great journey of life.

MY DAD'S SONG

All of our love to you
All of our love to you
All of our love to you...

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Beauty In Me

9/9/2013

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TOPIC: Navigating Through Pain into Self-Discovery

Waking Up to Your Own Beauty

There is magic all OVER the story of this song.

When Rose approached me at the end of a yoga class where I had been playing interpretive guitar, neither of us could have imagined the journey we were about to take, together and separately, in the bringing to life of this song. Rose says, "It feels so good to FEEL again," with an acknowledgement that this song helped that to happen in her life. There have been 4 (!!) magical things that have occurred already (!!) regarding this song and its short life. And probably more to come, we if keep our eyes open, now that it is "out there" and ready to meet the world...

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Our Dance

6/18/2013

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TOPIC: An "Alzheimer's Waltz" for Love and Life

Celebrating a Life and Partnership

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Rita lost her husband and long-time life-partner (and dance-partner) Dick, this past January. To commemorate his life and celebrate their relationship, she came up with a truly original idea: Why not commission a song that could be choreographed, so that she could dance to it, at his memorial service, as a way of celebrating his life and honoring their life-long love of dancing!

I thought this was an incredibly brave undertaking on her part. I listened carefully as she told me all about

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Of Grace and Gratitude

3/15/2013

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TOPIC: WAKING UP INSIDE YOURSELF

A Journey Into a Deeper Place of Gratitude From Within

This week I completed the 200th song I've written and recorded in the studio! And I wanted to share with you that I've discovered that the one song I listen to the most of all, out of all of those two hundred--the one I am moved by, on a regular basis, is one I created just last year, entitled, "Of Grace and Gratitude."

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Angels On Us

2/13/2013

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TOPIC: Anna in a Blinding Snowstorm, Driving Toward the One She Loves

Love, After Taking a Breath and Entering Back In

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Anna Huckabee Tull: Love All Over the Place

This month I am sending you a song of LOVE that starts in a BLIZZARD of "nothing but white" and celebrates what it means to keep on reminding ourselves to REACH FORWARD, even when we find ourselves pulling back from love and connection. Read on to learn the story.

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Bright Eyes - An Update

1/30/2013

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TOPIC: A Father Dies of Lou Gehrig's Disease and Leaves Behind a Song for his Daughter

A Fond Farewell From A Father "Locked In" With ALS

Yesterday at 1:30 PM Andy Eddowes gave up his long struggle with ALS/Lou Gehrig's Disease and quietly passed away.

Today I want to share with you the song Andy created with me for his 12-year-old daughter, despite the fact that he was unable to speak or move, because of his disease.

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Tell the Truth

6/6/2012

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TOPIC: Coming to grips with being honest with self

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TELL THE TRUTH
Anna Huckabee Tull & Ksenia Mack

I've been being held hostage by my desire to tell you
Something other than what's been going down
And I believe this is costing me just a little bit more than
I believe I need to charge myself this time around

I been messing with the pieces
Trying to get myself to believe this (tell)
Tell the truth now (oh, tell)
Tell the truth now.

I've been being held hostage by my desire to paint some
Oil on canvas of me farther down the road than I am
And I believe this is robbing me of my ability
To just explore the good fortune of all that I can

I've been measuring relief out
With an eye-drop and a tweezer, now (tell)
Tell the truth now (I got to, got to, got to tell)
Tell the truth now.

And I don't have to wait 'till someone asks me
And I don't have to wait for catastrophe to comes to pass here
And I don't need a crisis in order to come forth
And I don't need to be the one I 'm waiting for (tell)
I can tell the truth now (I can tell)
I can tell the truth now.

And I don't have to wait 'till someone asks me
And I don't have to wait for catastrophe to come to pass here
And I don't need a crisis just to come forth
And I can go if I'm the only one I was...waiting for
To tell the truth now...I'll tell the tell the tell the tell
I can tell the truth now.
Tell!

(c) Anna Huckabee Tull & Ksenia Mack

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Imagine There Is

6/6/2012

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RE-CONNECTING TO THAT PEACEUL, CENTERED PLACE WITHIN

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BREATHE
Every element of this month's "performance piece for meditation" is specifically, intentionally, very carefully calibrated to assist with one singular process: the shift, in you, from your everyday sense of being, into

THAT PLACE

WITHIN YOU

That place of loving, and knowing, and certainty, and flow;

That place through which you are deeply connected to yourself, and the Universe.

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Cynthia

6/6/2012

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TOPIC: Grieving the loss of a sister who struggled with mental illness and died early

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Sister Songs

3/1/2012

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TOPIC: Reaching to connect with a sibling

A story of me and my sister

My Sister Amy - I jumped off this dock without a life preserver and she jumped in after me

What follows is the story of me and my sister. Of all the songs I perform live in concert, these two "Sister Songs"--a matched set--are the most frequently requested. When I play the first song, half the room tears up. When I play the second song, the other half of the room gets all watery-eyed. (The non-teary people know better than to come to my concerts, I guess). Each of us, it seems, can relate in some way to one side or the other of this equation: siblings who grow apart--and one who maybe struggles with it more than the other.

GROWING APART
When we were young, Amy and I shared a room, a bunk bed, and many late night conversations, giggling and doing imitations of the voices (and imagined gastrointestinal releases) of all of our neighbors. We had secret glances and little pieces of shorthand. Everything she did, I wanted to do. But when we grew up, Amy and I grew into different lives. And we grew apart. She seemed okay with it. I spent a lot of years, when I stopped to think about it, feeling somewhat tortured by our apartness. I came up with no end of stories, explanations, reasons, justifications, and excuses for what it all meant. On the surface, I am not sure what it looked like, but inside of me, down below the surface where no one could see, there were a lot of approaches, and a lot of retreats. I was hurting, and I didn't know where to go with that hurt, or how to give it a voice.

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My Dad's Song

From son to father

Beauty In Me

Waking Up to Your Own Beauty

Our Dance

Celebrating a Life and Partnership

Of Grace and Gratitude

A Journey Into a Deeper Place of Gratitude From Within

Angels On Us

Love, After Taking a Breath and Entering Back In

Bright Eyes - An Update

A Fond Farewell From A Father "Locked In" With ALS

Tell the Truth

Imagine There Is

RE-CONNECTING TO THAT PEACEUL, CENTERED PLACE WITHIN

Cynthia

Sister Songs

A story of me and my sister

Song of the Month

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