#100daysofsinging

Singing for Water 💦 Day 43. No water, no plants. 🌹 These heirloom roses are delicious and gorgeous and reminded me of Stevie Wonder’s classic song, “Send One Your Love” from his album based on a book “The Secret Life of Plants.” 🌹 May this remix inspire you to live up some of the natural world: roses, kitties, whatever turns you on. 🌹 . . #Ecosex #interdependence #100dayproject #100daysofsinging (at The Barn with a View)

Singing for Water 💦 Day 💯 of 💯! It’s about Devotion... 💦 Remembering this sweet jewel, the Stella Maris Chapel we visited last month on a 3 mile hike around Lake Sagatagan in north central Minnesota. 💦 This devotional space honors the virgin Mary, guiding Star of the Sea, with a gorgeous bronze statue and star and sea imagery in stained glass. 💦 Chapels and sacred architecture in every culture around the world are designed to enhance the acoustics of the human voice. 💦 To amplify our devotion! 💦 I’m so grateful for the freedom, privilege and opportunities to honor the many forms of water this summer, through singing and sound. 💦 Thank you for joining me on this devotional exploration! More to come! Love, ChristineAhhh . . #100daychallenge #100dayproject #100daysofsinging (at Saganaga Lake) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnLI8atAaF8/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=14l9m9pao19i6

Singing for Water 💦 Day 99 of 100! Impressions of Port Townsend: seagulls in every shape, size, hue and wild cackle! 🕊 Sense of place: smells, sounds, a quality of the air. 🕊 What places bring you to feel a wild sense of intrigue, wonder, majesty? 🕊 Love those places. 🕊 . . #100daychallenge #100dayproject #100daysofsinging (at Port Townsend, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnIrHh1gokR/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=16njne7036ooq

Singing for Water 💦 Day 98. A crazy number of tiny crabs! 🦀 In a sleepy estuary, a sanctuary for sea birds and sea life, an explosion of teensy tinesy crabs! 🦀 After living here nearly 30 years, I’ve never seen crabs in such numbers...! Kinda scary to step in the water...they scattered as the tide rose. 🦀 These are not young of larger species like Dungeness or rock crabs, but Shore Crabs (Hemigrapsus sp.) 🦀 So grateful for flourishing life! . . #100daychallenge #100dayproject #100daysofsinging (at The Hood Canal) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnGNRn4gsLS/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=p5info8rbfdr

Singing for Water 💦 Day 97 of 100. Tonight we sang for the young ones, for all of life, all of us who need to be held and to feel safe and loved. We sang for the orca mama, the cycles of rain, the matriarchy... 💧 the sound was carried through us, through the water, far and wide, to be received, as it is. a mystery! 💧 Grateful for the stardust and the garden images from the Joni Mitchell song “Woodstock” 💧 Grateful for the seals and pair of otters that popped up with sweet curiosity as we sang, and for each other’s voices, sweet and soft and yet stronger, when we heard the sound of an old bomb that was detonated across the water. 💧 Grateful to be alive in these times. 💧 . . #100daychallenge #100dayproject #100daysofsinging (at Lemolo, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnDc7kzgw45/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1efto9xz1my5w

Singing for Water 💦 Day 96 of 100. Loving appreciation of water is my #DailyDevotion 🧜🏽‍♀️ Here in the PNW we feel the end of summer drawing near... and these hot sunny days of perfect blue skies reflected in our waters are even more precious. 🧜🏼‍♀️ I never want to take her for granted: the Sea is my muse, support system, recharge for the soul. Water is life. 🧜🏼‍♀️ If we love something, we want to protect it, right? 🧜🏼‍♀️ . #100daychallenge #100dayproject #100daysofsinging (at Port Ludlow, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnA6V8nAtnG/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1qtqkcr64w7hq

Singing for Water 💦 Day 95. On this #fullmoon, reflecting on the way of the warrior vs the way of water. 🌕 Reading the last works of Ursula K LeGuin, a writing mentor I’m so grateful to have known and studied with, I discover this beautiful passage: 🌕 “Lao Tzu says:... The weakest, most yielding thing in the world, as he calls it, water chooses the lowest path, not the high road. It gives way to anything harder than itself, offers no resistance, flows around obstacles, accepts whatever comes to it, lets itself be used and divided and defiled, yet continues to be itself and to go always in the direction it must go. 🌕 “The tides of the oceans obey the moon while the great currents of the open sea keep on their ways beneath. Water deeply at rest is yet always in motion; the stillest lake is constantly, invisibly transformed into vapor, rising in the air. 🌕 “A river can be dammed and diverted... so drained for human uses that it never reaches the sea, yet in all those bypaths and usages its water remains itself and pursues its course, flowing down and on, above ground or underground, breathing itself out into the air in evaporation, rising in mist, fog, cloud, returning to earth as rain, refilling the sea. 🌕 “Water doesn’t have only one way. It has infinite ways, it takes whatever way it can, it is utterly opportunistic, and all life on earth depends on this passive, yielding, uncertain, adaptable, changeable element. 🌕 “The death way or the life way? The high road of the warrior, or the river road?” 🌕 “I know what I want. I want to live with courage, with compassion, in patience, in peace.” - Ursula K. LeGuin 🌕 Thank you @ursulakleguin . . #100daychallenge #100dayproject #100daysofsinging (at English Camp Historic Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm-Yb9aArxF/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=190m58vfprtyt

Singing for Water 💦 Day 94 of 100. Honoring indigenous history of the NW coastal peoples. 🙏🏽 2 weeks ago hiking in English Camp, a National Park on Garrison Bay in San Juan Island, we found this gorgeous story pole with 2 storyboards. I was curious about its story, and how it came to be there. I especially wanted to know of the indigenous people in this place. While I saw many detailed displays about the British camp and settlers, I found Nothing!! about the native peoples here. Except the remnants of white shell middens... 🙏🏽 Typical of colonialism, we do not make indigenous stories a priority. The lack of their deep history, not visible in this place to educate us, to show us how their Creation stories help us to better live in the present, hurt my heart. I vowed to learn more. 🙏🏽 Then today on Facebook I see a post by Shirley Williams of the Lummi Nation, who was very intimately involved with this project! I’m so grateful. 🙏🏽 Here is her post, to honor the artists and the history: “August 25, 2016 - 2 Year Anniversary! Storyboards dedicated on behalf of Lummi and Saanich Nation - Hy'shqe! https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/archive/watershed-moment-pole-story-boards-installed-on-ancestral-village-site-4H2wasfIZUmnPy9XK2Pw_g/ Lummi story recorded by Stern in 1934. Excerpt, "In the beginning there were two brothers who were placed on earth in Somane. Finding no livlihood, salmon, the older brother moved to Saanich (Malahaat) and the younger brother, Swetan moved to San Juan Island, Lummi. To both brothers the Creator gave the gift of the reef-net, salmon, spear, suin and fire. One mind, one heart, one people. Master Carvers: Chief of Salmon - Jewell James, Lummi Reef-Net Captain - Charles Elliott and Chazzy Elliott, Saanich; see original reef-net model created by John Elliott, Saanich in the above link.” . . #100daychallenge #100dayproject #100daysofsinging (at English Camp Historic Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm7phoaAIVv/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=11156ayj3eu83