Hive Open Mic ( #openmic ) is a global community celebrating live music on Hive. Each week is a new event, encouraging musicians to share songs with an international audience.
For 2022, I'm committing to a new motivating force: Love. This will be my guiding light, moving forward. I believe this is my best way of being in the world, letting my heart lead. In other years, I've been hard-headed, battling with arrogance and impatience, thinking I could do it all and always falling short. In my experience, striving and struggling doesn't get us ahead in life, whereas love is right on time.
Here's a specific area where I'm making a radical shift: spending more quality time with my kids. Although I personally like the idea of keeping them in the public school system, with all the benefits that come from their learning and my spaciousness during the weekdays, their mom asked me to pull them out. I feel some hesitance, for sure, but I respect their mom's opinions and visions.
The schools where we live in Austin, Texas, USA, are reporting huge percentages of students and teachers testing positive for COVID right now, and so the schools are escalating their protocols, insisting on vaccinating the kids, and asking them to wear two masks. While I understand the safety concerns, I think these fears-based messages are distracting, if not dangerous, in a learning environment.
I want my kids to be open-hearted, and so I want to model open-heartedness. This week, we started a homeschooling adventure. We tried it two years ago, when school was cancelled because of COVID. This time is different, because the kids' mom and I are separated. Still I'm committed to holding my heart open, and by some miracle the kids are helping me to trust the flow and stay open.
Radiate
We may radiate [2x]
Little suns, everyone
Beaming rays of love vibrations
We may radiate [2x]
Through the universe through the galaxies
Through the planets and through the moons
We may radiate [2x]
Through the land through the water
Through the flora and through the fauna
We may radiate [2x]
Through the body through the mind
Through the innermost to the Source
Acknowledgements
Hive Open Mic - Week 91 is underway right now, with the current theme: “Motivation to Achieve". We introduce new themes every Sunday, inviting musicians to share a common current. Musicians always have full freedom to bring whatever music feels inspired in the moment. There is still time to jump in and enjoy this week's Hive Open Mic event!