A card that came the DAY I completed the song, by a completely different listener who had NO IDEA I was working on a song called “One Step at a Time”.
Hello Beautiful Friends,
Well aside from the “world at large” life almost felt “normal” in August. We had a semi-busy month. We had many private party gatherings, which were very small and spacious, all outside with a lot of heartfelt love.
We played at some of our favorite outside venues; The Sandbar, Indian Creek Winery, Red Fish Lake & the Roseberry Concert Series. We got to see many of you, masks on, from a safe distance. We’ve had a couple weeks without a love stream (which has been strange since it’s the the “new norm” for us). We got to go camping, feeling pretty lucky and now it’s suddenly September!
The election is in the air and there is as general feeling of anxiety towards it. We feel it. We see it with our friends and strangers and we are all embarking on our own individual journey and as a mass population, “One Step at a Time”.
“One Step at a Time” is a new original song that came right on time. It’s also your next download. Two lovely VIP members came to me with an idea, the title actually. I listened to their stories and the feelings they had about their individual process as individuals, a couple, and a family. Something connected that day for me as I understood exactly what they were meaning and how it relates to the world today.
All of us are on this journey to take life day by day, one step at a time. Many of us are not making big future plans for a trip or to spend time with distant family members because this Covid thing is still a very real threat. So all we can do is practice presence and let each other know how much we care. Sometimes just knowing that there is someone else on the “trail” with us, a friend, a lover, a dog…makes the “walk” of life more tolerable, less scary, and more joyful.
We used to be a population that had its calendar stuffed to the gills, I am completely guilty of this. And now, it’s a day to day, week to week, month to month living. There have been pluses and minuses to this way of living, but if I go back to the songs’ meaning…it helps me through. It helps me feel appreciation for the journey that is NOW. It helps me get through to Nov. 3rd and beyond, with whatever fate throws at us. It helps me not give up because I’m feeling uninspired, deflated or “old”.
We’ve all had feelings of helplessness through these times. We can feel insignificant and powerless. Let’s face it…a massive trauma has plagued the Earth’s humanity. It’s the first in our story here when the world is really spinning. A first true global pandemic (I know about the Spanish Flu yes but technology makes the world a bit faster…yes? And…none of us were around to experience it back then.) Think about when trauma hits a single person. The re-evaluating of life for that person…it’s what the whole world is going through whether people are consciously aware or not.
I’ve been inflicted with severe and chronic PTSD myself, and the way I’ve always described the feeling is, “the file cabinet got knocked over”. If you think of your life as a four drawer file cabinet, this is how you’ve organized your thoughts, emotions, belief systems and have made some sort of sense in your world…every thought and feeling is filed away in your body, mind and heart. All your pain, joyous moments, learning, and experiences are in your own “order” which invoke feelings of safety, understanding, belonging and equilibrium. (Assuming work has been done to put and keep it in order, ha…no easy task and a life long process.)
Well…when trauma happens, depending on how severe it is, someone or circumstance, kicked over your file cabinet or pulled out a few files and through them on the floor. Disorder, chaos, unresolved feelings are now needed to be organized. This happens to an individual who has been traumatized. Now think of it… the WORLD has been traumatized, and you might wonder why you feel a “little out of sorts”, and can’t explain it? The files are all over the floor. It’s a scattered disorganized feeling.
So…one step at a time, we pick up our own pieces. We organize ourselves for this “new world” we are living in. Society at large is reshaping the fabric of how to proceed during these times and since the files are out…there is a lot to process. “Oh…I forgot about that paper I wrote in the 5th grade” so to speak. It’s a recycling, a re-organizing, a great “cleanse” if you will. And we are all in it, no matter how removed one may be or feel. So in that, I am grateful that I heard our wonderful members reach out with hopes for a song about “One Step at a Time” and I am honored and humbled that Spirit met me to complete this song.
I hope you like it, that it keeps you going through this time, and that you understand we are WITH you in this journey. We will make it over the “rivers and the rocks” along the way. We will “walk” with each other every step of the way…one step at a time. May it bring you hope, comfort, and peace.
Thank you immensely for all of your love,
Niccole & Mo
PS. You will also note that Mo is not yet on this song…that is how new it is. We may do a second version of this when she gets her part down. Also, the video (for those who get video) is a bit different than the download. I encourage you all to not get too attached to a particular version yet, as it will fluctuate until it settles a bit. But enjoy them non-the-less, I hope! Much love!
Dinner with Fran! Our member from Washington who we’ve loved seeing this summer! Thanks for coming and bringing your love Fran!
My two favorite girls, Mo & Juno! Cut from the same cloth they are! LOL! You KNOW what I mean!!! Ha!
Walk softly and sing under a big tree!!! LOL! Compliments of Melinda Bristol! Thanks Melinda!
