Small Tender Things -Demo of a New Song

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Hi demos of unrecorded songs, but this one felt timely somehow. I’ve been trying to figure out what to do with all the images that have come to me in the past months, unbidden and often so carelessly tossed into the news. I’m often deeply troubled by the stories of suffering currently unfolding. I worry about the way that the politics of rage and division is making it harder for us to see the inner light in every person, and find where we still connect across differences.

So this song was written as my own response to the images that haunt me, and my continued belief in the power of love and compassion in these uncertain times. Our good intentions matter, our daily acts of kindness and compassion matter, love will always be the greater power.

Let me know what you think of the topic….how you navigate a world that feels very hard and tender at times, and yet filled with so much beauty and so many people like you and I, who care deeply and continue to lean into the light and the power of love.

I’ve attached a mp3 and lyrics :-)

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I want to remind folks about the new and updated edition of my friend Parker J. Palmers book “Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage To Create a Politics Worthy Of The Human Spirit”

In this updated edition of his prophetic book, Parker celebrates the power of “We the People” to resist the politics of divide and conquer. With the U.S. now on a global list of “backsliding democracies,” he writes about what we can do to restore civil discourse, reach for understanding across lines of difference, focus on our shared values, and hold elected officials accountable. I very much appreciate how he explores ways we can reweave the communal fabric on which democracy depends in everyday settings such as families, neighborhoods, classrooms, congregations, workplaces, and various public spaces―including five “habits of the heart” we can cultivate as we work to fulfill America's promise of human equality.

The topic of the song seems to bare a reminder that this helpful, practical and prophetic book is now out with a new introduction from Parker.