WOW! It's already 80 degrees in middle March!

This is pretty amazing weather! The flowers are already blooming in quantity and the birds are singing to their mates. We have Jupiter and Venus both in the night sky together, and a crescent moon. It is so beautiful here!

If you are on my mailing list, you have received a "snail mail" brochure on the release today of "A Celebration of Life and Love". You also have an order form that lists all of the albums that have come out of that great world of music through my playing and recording.....and into our world. Ancient/Future Symphony, VIDA, and Mystical Rose have been repackaged and now will have the full "works" of UPC code and shrink wrap so that they can go into retail stores.

One of the blessings of this repackaging of Ancient/Future Symphony, VIDA, and Mystical Rose was the necessity to listen to all of them completely through when I sent the master CD to the duplicating company, and then again when I received the physical proof back to approve. I fell in love again with this music and realized how really good it is. Yeah!!

So today, I am releasing the energy of "A Celebration of Life and Love" into the world. Whoosh! May this energy of celebration come into your own life and bring you joy and happiness today in everything that you do.

love to all!

Spring is almost here!

Here we are.....we have been at mid 60s and then at mid 30s. We have experienced high winds this week, and a beautiful full moon, and a change in the texture of the light. Spring is certainly almost here.

The process of Spring always reminds me of the creative process in my own life. In the release of winter, the winds have to blow and storms have to rage as the warm and cold fronts collide bringing the eventual consistent warm temperatures of Spring. As I release a new album, old patterns that are not a celebration of life and love have to come forward and interact with new patterns that bring warmth and light.....this interaction can produce storms and high winds in my life. All good!!

I am also creating a new original music album for a wonderful couple to celebrate and help grow their relationship to it's potential. This is such fun! The recording will happen on Monday of this coming week.

"A Celebration of Life and Love" is in the final stages of production. The UPS shipment of the hard copy for final proof should arrive today, and then the duplication process will take five business days. That means that CDs will be available to ship on Friday, March 16.

The marketing flyer and order form for "A Celebration of Life and Love" needs to go out in the mail on Monday, so Monday is going to be a really busy day at Mayan Dream Productions!

At the same time, Mystical Rose, Ancient/Future Symphony, and VIDA will arrive in their fully shrink-wrapped, UPC coded professional final form. This means that all of my CDs except for The Beloved: Special Edition for Healing Touch, will be on CDBaby and will become digitally available on almost 100 digital sites. CDBaby is an invaluable resource for independent artists like myself who would not have the connections to get their music onto i-tunes and so many other digital sites. And....customers can also purchase CDs there with a substantial discount for purchasing more than one of any particular CD. Thank you CDBaby!!

The skies are clear and the sunshine is beautiful today. Onward! With love, Beverly.

All the work that goes into releasing a CD...

So here we are.....in the last part of the journey of releasing a CD. I have recorded the music, spent hours in the studio with Tom Tempel in the mixing and mastering process, and now I have a Master CD to send to the duplication company. Susan Stamm and I have met several times on the graphic design for the cover. I have proofed it and re-proofed the cover, inner cover, disc label, and back tray. Now she can upload everything directly to the duplication company.

Vern is creating the new page for my website for this new CD "A Celebration of Life and Love". I wrote descriptions for each track and sent that to him along with mp3 snippets of each track.

As I sit here in the middle of the night, I am listening to the master and making sure that there are no glitches. I am also loading into my computer the masters for Mystical Rose, Ancient/Future Symphony, and VIDA. They will be sent also along with the artwork/graphic design to the duplication company. I am checking track by track for any possible glitches. As you can imagine, this is time-consuming!

Marketing involves on line newsletter and mailing of a new flyer just for this CD and designed by Susan. Once the completed CDs have arrived, I will be getting them into distributors and doing more online marketing to that international market. All of the music will also then go into the digital markets for downloads.

A person has to be really motivated to release a CD. It requires a HUGE amount of work and also finances up front. My inner world must direct all of this, or disaster would probably happen.

Onward into the day! With love, Beverly.

New Healing Music

It's hard to believe that this week will bring the first day of March. Spring is coming! and with it new music.

As you know by now, I am releasing a new album called "A Celebration of Life and Love". The creation of this music has been a transformative process for me. When a person composes music about celebration, that person (me!) has to become a person of celebration. Many of the old habits of complaining about work, or people, or the weather, or my body all have to go away on a deep inner level. I learned this last week that I have a very high cholesterol reading with a very, very high bad cholesterol level. The doctor was alarmed, but a follow-up EBT test showed that my heart, lungs, and abdominal area are all extremely healthy...in the top 5% of healthiness. So, the cholesterol has to come down, but it was mainly a wake-up call that I needed to allow the change of many habits once again. That's a pretty gentle wake-up call!!

A Celebration of Life and Love is healing me. It is so gentle and loving. My heart and circulatory systems are totally supported by this music into that 5% of top healthy people. My emotional life is being changed into a greater happiness and calm, my mind is opening in ways that I didn't think possible, and my spiritual life is deepening. Any part of me that had a broken heart is being healed.

Also, as I listen to this new music, I hear so much of all of the music that I have written over the years. There is a template that is my own. When you take a class on composers, they always ask you eventually to be able to identify a composer by their style and by certain musical "motifs" that reappear everywhere in their music. So, I guess that is what is happening to me in my own music. And I am sure that the vibration of a certain musical note "motif" has a larger energetic purpose for transformation.

Now....onward into the day. With love, Beverly.

Laughter

Last night I dreamed about the music of Mystical Rose: Music From The Heart of Everything. The dream had the album and me as one and the same. This is a "first" for me...to dream that I am the music that I create. Somehow, it had always been music that was given to me and that I was privileged to create from the inspiration and help of the Creative Source; but never did I feel that I was the music. This was another level of understanding on a deep feeling level that indeed all is one.

The album of Mystical Rose: Music From The Heart of Everything has the following tracks: 1. Love Unfolding 2. Held in Joy 3. Laughter 4. From the Heart of Everything 5. Creating From the Heart of Everything 6. Life Unfolding. I will be listening to this music today and remembering that this is me.

Thank you to Conrad for directing people to my blog this morning. Now.....onward and upward into the new day. Love to all.

Watching the Sun Come Up

It's so beautiful outside this morning! My office window faces East and I'm watching the sun come up in a beautiful sky. I'm always in awe of how beautiful this planet is.

The new CD "A Celebration of Life and Love" is almost complete. I was in the recording studio yesterday for track six, and then next week on Thursday will be finishing the mastering process and we're ready to go. A companion project is moving at the same time: Ancient/Future Symphony, VIDA, and Mystical Rose are being re-released with the full duplication process which includes the professional printing and shrink wrap of the CDs. This is all very exciting and fun!! It's also a lot of work and so my focus these months of January and February has been on simplifying my life so that I have the energy for this creativity.

Part of the simplification is in releasing Amazon as one of my distributors. They have been part of my Mayan Dream family for about 15 years, but are no longer an effective distributor for me. So....with my thanks, they are part of the past as of Friday, February 17th.

All of my customers will get a much better pricing and shipping structure from my own website, and from CDBaby. Since you, the customer are my first priority, I am focusing my time and creative energy on these two sites. As you know from previous Musings and from my marketing mailing, I have changed my website and removed any special links for distributors and for wholesalers. The website is much more simple for you....simply click on the order link on the home page and it will take you to the link for ordering and also to the CDBaby links. Enjoy your simpler life!! It is also less expensive and much easier to order your own individual original music.

Much love to all!

The Process of Creativity Continues

Here we are a week later and the music continues to flow and the album continues to develop and change. Now I have a track called Sunrise, and one called At The Cave, and Woven in Gentleness and Dancing My Center , and Vision Serpent.

The new album is called "A Celebration of Life and Love". It is part of the Mayan Trilogy of Ancient/Future Symphony and VIDA, and is definitely a celebration of all of nature. So, it is also a part of the Emergence, Radiance, Heart of Sky/Heart of Earth group. And....because it celebrates the gentle quiet center that supports our life journey, it joins the music of The Journey of Joy, The Beloved, and Mystical Rose. The drum in the photograph is my Copan, Honduras drum and it plays on several tracks in the new album. It is particularly alive for these recordings!

There is a special lightness to this new music....and a new lightness to my life. Everything is simplifying and becoming easier.

With the lightness and ease of this new album, comes a change in my marketing. I am following the good example of JC Penney and moving all of my prices to one price for the entire year. No special discounts, no sales. If you go to my order page, you will see only one link. The distributor and wholesale links are gone. The price for all CDs reflects the reality that I do not have any layers of people handling the sales of my music so no need for built in monies for them. When people order from my website....there is just me, and you are getting the benefit. Prices of CDs on my website are now $6.50 all of this year and that includes my new CD "A Celebration of Life and Love". If a person or organization orders more than $200, they get an additional 20% discount. Shipping and handling is free for 20CD orders and more.

I have also simplified the structure for Original Music composed for individuals. This was formerly called Soul/Deepbody Music.
10 minutes of original music for you is $100. 30 minutes is $300. No other price structures but a person can still pay for a full 30 minutes in payments if they wish.

The new financial structures for CDs and also for Original Music should be up on my website by Monday, February 13.

So, here I am again, sitting in my office early in the morning (REALLY early today!) with my cup of coffee and my candle and my music playing, writing to all of you. It is still dark outside with dawn a few hours away yet. An arctic front is moving in and will bring very cold temperatures and snow tomorrow. Life continues!
Love to all.