This Song We Sing is the first album that I have published and made available for purchase.  This album just exploded out of me in late 2007 but at the same time so was my first book.  And so I did not finish mastering this album for another year.

 

This album’s main theme is Unity and its sub-theme is inner healing.  And in saying “unity” what I am referring to is how every human being is in some form of relationship.  There is no true separation.  And so recognizing and celebrating our interwoven relationships we realize how we are all one.  And also, when connect with our heart, or as I refer to as connecting with the “savior within” we now truly begin to heal emotionally, physically, and spiritually.

 

Once I was healed of AIDS to a point of beginning to have vitality the creativity just intensified even more.  I have always been very creative, but not with this sense of clarity or expanse.  And so after I published my book “From Suffering to Soaring” I returned to this album in late 2008 and released it in early 2009.

 

I wrote most of these songs in the winter of 2007, and by and large when submerged deep in the night.  It is interesting that I am hyper-creative during the winter when they state that most are creative in the spring and summer.

 

So I would be lying down and drifting off to sleep when “wham!” a new full song was in my mind.  This was a fully realized song with orchestration, lyrics, and atmosphere.  I tend to not really “create” in the sense.  There is just at one moment a new full song ready to come “through” me into the world.  And all that it requires on my part is a quiet mind.  And so this album is a perfect example of how this collaborative writing process happens.  The songs just simply manifest through me so I do not ultimately consider them mine.  I am just a vehicle that “brings” them “in”.

 

And so over the period of a few weeks this explosion of songs occurred.  I was up through the night recording.  And because my own storm had calmed considerably the themes of the songs were then calmer than past albums as well and also more universal in theme.  I was not writing about “me” or about Rich’s story any more, as this was balanced.  I was through lyrics and melody addressing our entirety as a Human Race, and this was new for me.   I was addressing the ONE that we all ARE because this was now my awareness.  No more pieces, just a peace and oneness to reveal through song.

 

I remember writing the song “This Song We Sing” as a poetic ode to the greater LOVE we all share and it felt as though WE were having a direct conversation, or actually, that I was taking dictation from that ONE and this sharing was now becoming the song.  There are a few songs on the album, such as “Have I found Me?” or “Blink of an Eye” or “Winter Heart” that are more autobiographical in nature.  But even these are more universal than I had been previously writing in that anyone could plug in their experience and resonate.

 

These songs were themes of being a human being.  There was more clarity.  I was now seeing the relationships that create our experience and also the patterns that create our suffering, and I was enjoying putting these insights into song and so here is the album.

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