Spring is on its way and we are ready to “bring on the GOOD!” We are less than a week away from our big Sapphire Room production March 5th at the Riverside Hotel. We are super excited to share the stage with our friends Meghan Kelly Watters and Debbie Sager! We are also really looking forward to the beautiful audience that always pumps the “purpose” back into our hearts during these shows. It always amazes me that people show up, purchase tickets and continue to be moved and show such love and support. I am ALWAYS humbled and honored to play for such a beautiful audience.
I have been reflecting on all the times we’ve played in the Sapphire Room. I think we are going on about 9 years now of yearly and sometimes bi-yearly performances in that special room. It’s a stage we can call “home” and the audience that participates is like “family”.
I try, much like with these blogs…to think of a theme for the show. I’ve done, “Sing into spring” and other various event titles. This year I was thinking, with all the heavy energy we have been through with Covid and the state of the country/world/politics etc… aren’t we all “trying to find the good?” So, in light of that thought, I themed this blog AND the Sapphire show – “Bring on the Good”.
We all need a little “pep” in our step, a little love in our hearts and joy in our days. We have all been through a lot in the last few years personally and collectively. Everyone I speak with, I see in their eyes the reality of time moving fast and a sense of urgency to live to the fullest and walk a truer, deeper, more meaningful path. Utilizing our days, time, hours wisely and cherishing what we DO have; has been the echo I have heard over and over again from my own spirit and from friends and strangers reflecting this back to me.
So in light of this “theme”, I thought of another idea a few weeks ago. A bold, and maybe stupid or crazy idea ha! It just goes to show you that I am a person that keeps pressing a bit out of my comfort zone. I don’t quite know what that is all about, I suppose I resist being complacent?! But here is my maybe “not so brilliant” brilliant idea! Ha! What if I could write a song called “Bringing on the Good” or “Looking for the Good” or something with this theme and PLAY it the night of the show! Better yet, what if I open the show with this thought, this plan, this vulnerability???
“Oh holy hell Nicc?! Are you kidding me with this challenge???” But instead of rejecting it and taking the safe way with a song I’ve known for years, I’m leaning in. Lean in to what scares the shit out of you? Right?
So…here we go! Needless to say, just Saturday (2/26) I sat down and penned out the song I think I will play. “Bring on the Good”. Now, it’s super new, still wet behind the ears, it’s vulnerable, it’s lovely, it says what I need it to say…hopefully it will set the tone of the show. Hopefully it will make us all “friends” right away. I can fuck up, or cry or stammer, or willingly try…I will play the song, and then introduce everyone personally to the stage.
And then, after that…the whole show will be a piece of cake - ha! So I think! The first song, all alone, brand new and vulnerable…it will set a tone and my heart will indeed be thumpity thump thump…but I’m getting use to being scared out of my mind! It comes with the territory of “show biz”.
Falling in love with the feeling of NOT being in control really MEANS we are trusting the Universe. And I think this is why I do what I do. This is why I press myself and I’ve never been disappointed when I know Spirit has me. So I am manifesting an open hearted audience that will take note that they are witnessing something special and hopefully I do justice to the song I’ve written and some hearts will be touched. But who knows…it could very well flop and then I’m on to “Missed the Mark”! ha ha ha!!! What do I have to lose, right???
Anyway sweet people, I hope you enjoy this new song! Below you will find the words and the tune is not even 3 days old…so, it might grow, flex, change a little until it really settles on what wants to come through.
What GOOD you are looking for…or already have in your life? What “Good” can you hold on to? In the small subtle ways, the every days, the in between spaces of your life, what invisible thread carries you to a place of harmony or balance. Where or who do you find rest? How does Spirit show up for you and “pull you through” those moments of clarity?
“Bring on the Good”
by niccole blaze
Whiskey by the fire side
Moon beams and stars in your eyes
Heart flaming in midsummer July
And ponderosa pines
We steady ourselves in what we believe
All the while the wind blows through the trees
Calling us to the love that we may need
To make us whole again…
Love breaks us open
No words need be spoken
We’ve done all we could
Still looking for the good
Trying to find the good
Sometimes love is NOT as it should
But we’re bringing on the Good
Breaking all the rules
Temptation and the risk to be the fool
Giving up on evberything we knew
To walk a truer path
And there’s been hard times
And greateful hearts
And there’s been loses
That tear your heart apart
Ane the world keeps spinning
Ya just don’t know how it could
Meanwhile we gather…looking for the good!
Trying to find the good
Sometimes this world is not as it should but we keep bringing on the Good!
