TOPIC: 50th birthday song
Celebrating 50 as An Age of "Coming True"
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This month we are turning our focus to Laura. Laura gave herself an incredible 50th Birthday Present.
She commissioned a song to celebrate the serene and centered place she was coming to in her 50th year. And, as always, there's a twist.
Due to a devastating accident, Laura has been in a wheelchair for the entirety of her adult life. You'd never know it to talk with her on the phone or sense how she comes across over the internet. And in fact, she asked, when I created her song, that it not be "all about that." Because SHE is not "all about that." But we did work this harsh and, ultimately, rather defining turning point, into the video that my sister-in-law, Anne, created for you for this Song-of-the-Month. We did so not in an attempt to "make it all about that," but as a way of helping to share and amplify the wonder of Laura and her journey, which has inspired me deeply.
She commissioned a song to celebrate the serene and centered place she was coming to in her 50th year. And, as always, there's a twist.
Due to a devastating accident, Laura has been in a wheelchair for the entirety of her adult life. You'd never know it to talk with her on the phone or sense how she comes across over the internet. And in fact, she asked, when I created her song, that it not be "all about that." Because SHE is not "all about that." But we did work this harsh and, ultimately, rather defining turning point, into the video that my sister-in-law, Anne, created for you for this Song-of-the-Month. We did so not in an attempt to "make it all about that," but as a way of helping to share and amplify the wonder of Laura and her journey, which has inspired me deeply.
Thankfully, not all of us are struck with circumstances as sudden and unalterable as the accident that Laura endured, but all of us know what it means to get knocked down, hard, and to find our way back up again. Sit back and watch the wonder of what it looks like in another, and perhaps you will take it as an opportunity to celebrate the resilience in yourself as well. We can all be, when we stop and think about it, amazingly buoyant, creating for ourselves room to unfold. Laura shows us what it looks like. And, just maybe, deep in our hearts, we already know.
She was a Radiant child
Free to dance wild
By the sparkling campfire light:
Sing your Belonging to the
Night sky, night sky
Watch it rise high, rise high
Then face the bright lights
Change is a hair-pin turn, that can cut you like a slice
Learn to put the pieces back anew
Rearrange the questions till they
Answer you, answer you
Let them answer you, answer you
Connect the dots
Who you are and who you are not
And rise above
Find your station, find your strength, find your voice
And find your love
Well, she’s got a Radiant smile, now
Out beyond the trials, now
Nothing left to prove
Nothing left but all of you
Beautiful you
Coming through, coming true
Coming through, coming true
(Coming true) From the Inside, Inside
(Coming True) Open Wide, Open Wide
(Coming True) So much Space Inside
(Coming True)Watch her Rise, Watch her Rise, Rise
Connect the dots
Who you are, and all you have got
You’re rising up
In your place, in your strength, in your voice,
And in your love
Rising up, Coming True, All of you!
Look at you. (Oh, Beauty) Look at you.
© 2009 Anna Huckabee Tull, CustomCraftedSongs.com
Christian Howes, violin ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Anna Huckabee Tull is a Psychologist and Life Coach, and she creates songs and videos on commission to help individuals mark meaningful transitions, passages, and moments of celebration. Anna lives with her two boys and her husband in the woods of Concord, Massachusetts.
Note from Anna: I had the amazing opportunity to work with internationally renown violinist/fiddler Christian Howes on this project. He comes from the same hometown as me--Delaware, Ohio. Twelve or so years ago, he purchased my very first cassette tape of music in the little music shop in our town and called me up that very day to introduce himself to me and tell me how much he liked it! I was rather breathless about it then--I am a "little deal;" this guy is a "BIG DEAL." But twelve years later, we actually got to work on a project together. It was an honor for me and if you listen you'll see that he took the song to a whole new place with not one violin track but sometimes as many as FIVE! When I heard his tracks on my song I felt like a shrimp dipped in butter!!! (Surely as a writer I ought to be able to come up with a better comparison than that, but hey, that's what it felt like!)
Thanks in an ongoing and eternal way to Eric Kilburn, for knowing just what to do with the guitar tracks and the mix.
Thanks to Laura, for the inspiration.
And thanks to my rockin' sister-in-law Anne Tull, also of good old Delaware, Ohio, for putting together a video that "caught the sweep."
Anna Huckabee Tull is a Psychologist and Life Coach, and she creates songs and videos on commission to help individuals mark meaningful transitions, passages, and moments of celebration. Anna lives with her two boys and her husband in the woods of Concord, Massachusetts.
Note from Anna: I had the amazing opportunity to work with internationally renown violinist/fiddler Christian Howes on this project. He comes from the same hometown as me--Delaware, Ohio. Twelve or so years ago, he purchased my very first cassette tape of music in the little music shop in our town and called me up that very day to introduce himself to me and tell me how much he liked it! I was rather breathless about it then--I am a "little deal;" this guy is a "BIG DEAL." But twelve years later, we actually got to work on a project together. It was an honor for me and if you listen you'll see that he took the song to a whole new place with not one violin track but sometimes as many as FIVE! When I heard his tracks on my song I felt like a shrimp dipped in butter!!! (Surely as a writer I ought to be able to come up with a better comparison than that, but hey, that's what it felt like!)
Thanks in an ongoing and eternal way to Eric Kilburn, for knowing just what to do with the guitar tracks and the mix.
Thanks to Laura, for the inspiration.
And thanks to my rockin' sister-in-law Anne Tull, also of good old Delaware, Ohio, for putting together a video that "caught the sweep."
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