#madeinmay

1. SOUNDCLOUD

2. All rough tracks/snippets i’ve ever posted on this blog can now be found by typing ‘sutra music’ (don’t omit the space between) in the search tab (left side bar).

Thanks again to everyone listening to the story I shared in ‘Hide’!

I wrote this song about 2 years ago, around a time I was at war with myself and my purpose. Tonight...in line with Made In May, I thought to get back to basics and go back to how things were before: strumming a simple tune on my guitar, alone (with a mic)...and this is what happened. ‘Hide’ is a simple song about fear, compromise, defeat and the eventual uprising, shaky as it sometimes may be. This is a story about some of the inner battles I have faced/am facing. You may find you can relate...or not. I give you the story anyway.

Best heard with earphones, i might consider making it available for download on bandcamp (had to compromise on quality to fit it on here -_-) if there’s interest. Lyrics:

hide yourself from those you’re born to lead kill yourself escape from being free love, lose yourself they say you’ll only make it that way.

i keep running from who i’m supposed to be yearn to fit in with those who’s words choke me lies threatening to swallow me whole, i’ll hide myself from me.

hide yourself from those you’re born to lead kill yourself escape from being free love, lose yourself they say you’ll only make it that way.

i keep running from who i’m supposed to be yearn to fit in with those who’s words choke me lies threatening to swallow me whole, i’ll hide myself from me.

i’ll hide no longer i’ll hide no longer i’ll hide no longer, i am stronger

May is the month for pursuing your creativity. Over the next 20 days, we’re encouraging you to take active steps in discovering +/- nurturing +/- releasing your voice through whichever vein, whatever art, God has placed within you. We all have the ability to create. And not only that, but we have a propensity to fashion beauty or pain out of the chaos of our minds and of our lives. Out of emptiness, out of desire, and out of longing. It is our inheritance as children of a magnificent, colourful, powerful and transcending Creator. Art is one of many ways through which we can discover more of God, and eventually more of ourselves through Him.

Do you believe that you have a gift of creativity? If not, now’s the time to. In May, you are free to continue journaling along the theme of discovering God but what we really want you to do is this: commit time every day/night for the rest of this month to work on your art. Photography, drawing/painting, songwriting, singing, playing an instrument, writing, sewing, production, enterprise. All these are outlets for art, and examples of what you could explore for yourself a bit more this month. 

1. Put all you think you know of yourself aside, and create. Ask God to reveal what He has given you specifically if you are unsure or in doubt, and be prepared to listen and to learn.

2. Take some risks. Enrol on that extra course to enhance your God-given talent, take up busking on the streets, perform your poetry at an open mic, get back on playing that instrument you’ve been neglecting, or just pick up a pen and paper to do some songwriting for the first time.

3. There will be no weekly themes this month. But we encourage you to share (some of) your work with us as you go along. Hashtag #MADEINMAY so we can like or reblog your posts as the month goes on. Videos, photos, links to see more of your work, poems, short stories, compositions...anything. Aim to make 1 or 2 pieces of your work public per week. We’ll keep checking and will be sharing our own stuff with you (as usual) as well as our personal sources of inspiration and stories of embracing our creativity.

4. Share this post with any and everyone!

Here’s to May!

Love,

-S.

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