As you are already aware, music
is a large part of my life. Today I had
the pleasure of seeing a sneak peek of a song being written on YouTube by one
of the bands I enjoy. I am going to
share with you the background of how this all came together in hopes that you
can fully appreciate and understand how moved I am at what crossed my computer
screen today.
The band is Eye Empire and their
bassist Corey has been a part of my long standing musical “family” for over 16
years. I have watched his career with
various talented individuals blossom through the years. I have observed lessons learned with the
business, lasting love finally come to pass with his beautiful lady, family
created and loss endured as he and his brothers said good-bye to their father
this year. You see, I knew he would put
together a class act project when I heard their first release some time
ago. Having been through all that he has
been through I knew he wasn’t going to settle and I also knew that who he had
become on the journey was ripe for such a magnificent union of musicians. When their first independent release came out
I of course snapped it up along with some merchandise to help support the
cause. Merchandise my step-daughter had
no problem claiming as her own either, proudly sporting it to her small high
school in hopes of spreading the word about the up and coming band.
Life would have it that by
joining my private juicing group on Facebook, the one I’ve written about previously
here, that I would end up becoming friends with their singer’s life partner and
the mother of their two amazing little boys.
Let me tell you, I adore this woman to pieces. I look forward to traveling to Florida soon
and can’t wait to meet her in person one day over a Rockin’ Wellness shake or a
yummy gluten free veggie meal or fresh glass of juice. We have many similar passions and a certain
vibration of devotion to all things beautiful when it comes to food,
sustainability, self and parenting.
Knowing how authentic she is I had no doubt that the love of her life would
be just as interesting. What I didn’t
realize until watching that video today however was just how interesting Donald
is.
While the video itself is a peak
into the private world of Donald and the band’s writing, the universal
information shared within the 10 minute video is so profoundly on point that I
had to share it here at Knowing. In
fact, when I first went to share the link on its own with just a blurb of an
introduction, I had so much to say it soon became apparent that a full blog was
in order.
So many of you have reached out to me
privately and even publically at the Facebook fan page for Knowing regarding the
topics Donald touched upon. I knew with
every fiber of my being that even if the music isn’t your genre of choice that
you needed to listen to the entire video to soak in what’s really going on in
it, to appreciate what stirred within me that I felt needed to be spoken about
here.
In the beginning Donald touches
on staying motivated, on the importance of environment on one’s
positivity. He goes on to state how we
must understand that we pick our lives, how he’s picked this life for himself. His life as he has stated isn’t easy, it’s a
life that he is making happen every day.
One that he loves, one that albeit is demanding is a life that he never
feels like it’s work. This is what
happens when we follow our passions, when we find a way to do what we love and
live a happy life. Donald embodies his
words, the working hard and the knowing that he (and his family) deserves everything
that comes their way. You too deserve to
do what you love, to create a life of happiness and to believe that you deserve
life’s abundance.
As he opens up about the lyrics
of the song, about how personal it is for him, he even takes into consideration
the gifts of being bi-polar, of finding the advantage to his range of feelings. I have many friends that are bi-polar and I
have never heard any of them draw from it that beautiful outlook of truth. Donald goes on to touch on our life dreams, on
the doors of life being open (and sometimes closed), on our expectations of the
same. I love how he takes accountability
for his journey and states that focus and being active is what creates life. What are we always talking about here at
Knowing? Being present, doing what needs
to be done and becoming who we are in the process of the same.
Standing up, taking control,
opening doors for one’s self, even when burned out (worn out) on the journey is
truth. How one creates opportunities in one’s
life by working hard is truth. Donald
even goes on to touch on how the lyrics genesis the transition between old mindsets
that don’t serve one’s self, the ones we have to get rid of in order to develop
and move into the life of the new mindsets such as positively and proactive
living. Yes, all of these life lessons
and truths in one beautiful work in progress.
Before the video wraps up he even
goes on to explain the importance of knowing when and how to trust others, on
how we have to understand how to balance life and how we have to learn to rely
upon each other. Remember in my last
blog how I talked about the collective human consciousness that has gathered
around my dear friend as she battles breast cancer? Once again Knowing community, here is the
truth, front and center. Are you
listening? Are you accepting the beauty
of the oneness of humanity?
In closing, I don’t think I could
of said it better myself. Songs are
stories. I hope the story behind this
one as its being written reminds you of the Universal knowledge we all possess. As their band always says, “Love, Respect,
Support.” Love one another my friends,
respect each other and support each other.
I do.
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