MUSINGS...by Beverly Rieger

When you listen to the Wisdom Enters The World music, you are entering into a wondrous place. You hear wind from the mountains of Santiago Atitlan; bird song and water from Copan,Honduras; and even though you are not physically present in the Mayan lands, you will experience the vibration of the wind, the bird song, the water from the mayan lands. The drum playing on the Wisdom Cave track is from Honduras...created in the home of a Mayan musician. The Mayan flutes of the paddler flute, the shaman flute, the coyote flute....sound into our time from ancient times. You are immersed into a time and place that is beyond time as we know it. The description on the back of the Wisdom Enters The World in Love CD brings this transformation into yet a deeper level: "From our innermost core through our action in the world...we are held in Wisdom's presence of love and knowing. She enters the world through all of nature and through our own life expressed in loving action." ...

New life.....snow is melted....sunshine has that particular bright and golden look of Spring. Retta (our Rhodesian Ridgeback) is now in Spring hunting mode....waking us up in the middle of the night so she can hunt rabbits outside in the dark. Yikes!! My brother Steve is an expert at website creation and maintenance (and an awesome artist and carpenter!) and he is coming on Monday to give me my second lesson in website maintenance so that I can maintain my own website. This will be a new experience for me and very creative. Daily OM featured "Wisdom Enters The World In Love" on March 17th and thank you to all who supported this day of emergence for the Wisdom music. It was a successful day! "Wisdom Enters The World In Love" is a hit with the Tai Chi classes in this area. Not surprising, but I hadn't ever imagined this,...my music is perfect for Tai Chi. Those in the Tai Chi classes love it, and it is a real blessing for my own body to be movi...

Yesterday we had 44 degrees and I was able to walk Retta without freezing. What a blessing for Retta and for me. Monday they are predicting 50+ degrees here...then Wednesday another significant snowfall.... so winter is not really quite done yet with us. What a dynamic month March is! Mayan Dream Productions is selling my music quite heavily this month. As I said in the last blog, everything is waking up. Seeds that were germinating in this last long winter are now sprouting. At this time of year it is really important for me to listen carefully to my inner guidance. It is telling me how to nurture the seeds that are beginning to grow, but I have to listen and act on what my inner voice tells me.....not on what I might "think" I should do. On a lighter note: I am loving my new postage system! It's making my life of shipping so much easier. Someone invented this system, and I give them thanks. Let's see what this new week brings. Love to all.

It's early in the morning, and the first wave of a snow storm has come in during the night.....covering mounds of existing snow with new whiteness. Today...all day...snow! I could sigh and say, oh no, more snow and it's been such a long winter. But, the reality is that the light is brighter in the daytime and the bird song is different. They know that Spring is coming. This snow is lovely and it is just temporary. Mayan Dream Productions shares in this season change. We have had a winter hibernation with all of the gifts that winter brings, and now we can feel the approaching movement outwards back into the world of action. What is happening? We have a new mailing system that better accommodates large numbers of shipments to you. The Spring catalog is out to some of you who will be needing it soon. The Love Streams project is a roaring success, and it now has it's own Facebook page.... www.facebook.com/lovestreams.14 (just click here). To follow the journey ...

A new look for this blog for the new season of Spring that is just around the corner. It is (as often!) very early in the morning and the outdoor temperature is still in the teens with 3-5 inches of snow expected today. But, it's the middle of February and a thaw is expected at the end of this week. Spring is coming! Little bits of good news: Daily OM is going to feature Wisdom Enters The World In Love on March 17th. The Spring catalog is ready and will be mailed next week. The benefit project called Love Streams is moving quickly, and CDs will be in house next week for shipment. To find out more about this project, click on: http://lovestreamstoilene.blogspot.com. I hope that all of you are feeling the new life that is soon to be here in the change of seasons. It's been a long winter! Much love.

I am project manager for a wonderful benefit album called "Love Streams". Musicians from the Midwest and California are donating their time and expertise and musicianship to this album. As the album comes together, it is another example of the power of music to bring love into the world and to heal. Each piece of music that has been added to the whole of the album, has built the energy of the album until now it is exploding into the world.... carrying love and joy and healing. If you would like to find out more about this benefit album, click on this link: http://lovestreamstoilene.blogspot.com . I have to say, it's been a really powerful winter here in the Midwest. We are almost halfway through February and we continue the weather pattern of arctic air, followed by snow, followed by more arctic air. Right now, as I am writing this Musings, it is minus 13 here. However, the beauty of the winter has been extraordinary. Soft white snow laying on branches stretc...

This morning let's continue our musings on the power of music to move people. When I found out that Pete Seeger had died this week at the age of 94, I downloaded one of his albums from i-tunes. One of his songs....We Shall Overcome...is an excellent example of the power of music....and the power of the human voice to unite. As I listened I could feel the magic of his music, and the moment that he connected to the energy of the people who had come together for his concert and were joining him in song. His voice deepened and became more powerful. I have experienced the feeling of being "one" with a large crowd of people as I made music, and I could feel that same oneness in Pete Seeger as he led the enormous crowd in the "We Shall Overcome Song". The news blurbs also showed Pete and his voice and his banjo/guitar leading rallies for justice, and bringing people together in peace as they sang with him....bodies swaying to the music. May you always e...