What’s Your Song?

By on March 16, 2009 in Health, Inspiration, Parenting & Family, Relationships

It’s nest building time. Beneath the Juniper tree where three dogs sleep the day away, is a litter pile of broken twigs. High overhead, two magpies are busy home-building six feet from the top of the tree.

Right now, its rush hour in the sky south of my house, as bluejays, woodpeckers, magpies and a half dozen others fly homeward with a small twig in their beak. Several hundred trips, and they’ll have enough material for a house strong enough to weather the upcoming Spring storms.

When the hatchlings in the Juniper tree begin their flight lessons, I’ll have to bring the dogs into the fenced yard. It should take a day or two for them to "get their wings." In the meantime, they’ll spend long days being sung to sleep, in bird song, in their cradle in the sky.

In another part of the world, in Africa, there is a village, I’m told, where an expectant Mother goes into the woods with other women, and over the course of a few days discovers the song that will be sung to her child at its birth. Each child born into that village has its own song.

The song has such a force field attached to it, that whenever a child does something that would send a U.S. teenager to Court, the villagers do something different. Gathering in a circle with the disruptive youth in the center, they sing the birth song to him or her.

Using the sound vibration of the song, they are aligning the child with its true self. It’s true nature.

What is your song? The song you sing to yourself to realign yourself with your purpose? What is the song of your children? It’s never too late to begin singing!

 

 

About Alexia Parks

For more than 30 years, my writing and work has had a focus in the fields of energy, the environment, education, parenting, and communications. Recently, I was given the distinction of being the first accredited blogger at the UN Conference on Climate Change, in Bali. Author of seven books, my latest includes RAPID Evolution, a training manual for accelerated evolution. It is solution oriented: as we self-heal, we heal the world around us..

In my career, I have been a nationally syndicated columnist, New York City magazine publisher, and written for the national desk of The Washington Post. I have also served as Director of Communications for a trade association representing 100 major metropolitan daily newspapers. In 1995, I co-founded Votelink.com – the first electronic democracy website on the Internet - and continue as its president today. At its launch, Newsweek magazine called me “one of 50 people who matter most on the Net.”

You can find my books linked from http://www.rapidevolution.org/ or Amazon.

I live and work at Votelink.com

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13 Responses to What’s Your Song?

  1. ed.and.deb.shapiro March 16, 2009 at 10:32 am #

    Alexia- This is profoundly beautiful- Tears pour down my face as I comment–

    Blessings of Love,

    Ed

  2. meadysmusings March 16, 2009 at 10:37 am #

    Haha! I asked this question on Facebook already and had a Facebook group for it…What is your Theme Song?

    Mines is 'I am the One and Only' by Chesny Hawks…I am the one and only…nobody I'd rather be…

  3. gregory57 March 16, 2009 at 12:38 pm #

    George Harrison's – "My Sweet Lord"

  4. Ruch March 16, 2009 at 12:49 pm #

    It used to be Imagine by John Lennon – but somewhere along the line I grew up :D But still listen to a Bon Jovi song or two once in a while….

  5. meadysmusings March 16, 2009 at 3:51 pm #

    Ruch grew up or became cynical??! ;)

  6. meadysmusings March 16, 2009 at 3:52 pm #

    Nice theme song by the way Brother Greg! :)

  7. Alexia Parks March 16, 2009 at 5:00 pm #

    Alexia Parks, Author

    Thanks for the wonderful, emerging list of songs that come from the heart of each of you. I'll check out a couple on YouTube.

    I also wanted to mention that I created my own sing-song for my dogs. As we hike, I sing it to them and they wag their tails. I make sure the song includes each dog's name.

    Sometimes, when I am seeking their attention, I simply whistle the tune and three heads turn my way, expectant. Show a leash, and we're off…!!!

  8. Alexia Parks March 16, 2009 at 5:03 pm #

    Alexia Parks, Author

    Ed, this almost reads like a Haiku poem. How lovely.

    Tomorrow, St Patrick's Day, I'm hosting a luncheon where the theme is Green Haiku. I'll invite participants to write a Haiku, or adapt their own from a famous one, and add a "touch of green," or something seasonal for Spring … like cherry blossoms.

  9. ed.and.deb.shapiro March 16, 2009 at 5:32 pm #

    Lexi- You are a Haiku poem! -

    * Spring is in the air * I can smell it!

    Joy,

    Ed

  10. mspamy March 16, 2009 at 6:15 pm #

    my first thought is 'Pie Jesu' , i first heard this at my best friends, husbands funeral, it hit me in the heart. next to this it has to be 'Let your love flow' by the Bellamy Brothers. Perhaps there's a message here?

    Pamela

  11. RevAnthony March 17, 2009 at 8:43 am #

    Alexia, Wonderful. I love this. I facilitated a workshop on connecting to your "heart song." The song that comes in mind in this moment is "Better Days" sung by Dianne Reeves, jazz singer. "you can't get to those better days until you make it through the night, you have to make it through the night, be patient." Its a song of receiving wisdom from grandmother and elders.

    Rev Anthony

  12. Ruch July 5, 2009 at 11:46 am #

    Right now it's "All out of love by Air Supply" (yeah its bit naive) – discovering the depth of sadness, which never knew was possible……. at this stage…….

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