We Travel Together ~ Passengers On A Spaceship

We travel together,
passengers on a little spaceship,
dependent on its vulnerable supplies of air and soil...
preserved from annihilation only by the care,
the work, and I will say, the love, we give
our fragile craft.
Adlai Stevenson

♥ What Was Given ♥

Music and lyrics by Sandra Hammel

This is a call to love the planet ♡

 ~ It’s not ours

To hurt, hurt, kill, kill

Free to not care.

Why so hard to love what was given?

We could heal what we hurt,

hurt our Mother Nature.

This is our home

That we’re to share with other life.

Life, not death, to share, with creation.

Why so hard to love what was given?

Given to all life’s generations,

not just you,

you

and I.

Will our life, be the death

of what was given

to all creation?

This is a cry to love the planet ♡

 ~ It never was ours

to take, steal, hurt, kill,

destroy beauty.

Dona nobis pacem,

Pa-a-a-a-cem.

Do-na no-bis pacem.

Do-o-o-na, do-o-o-na, do-na nobis pacem.

Why so hard to love what was given?
We're just passing through.

♫ What Was Given ♫ by Sandra Hammel

❤ Music ♫ May 5 ~ July 1, 2016 ❤

❤ Lyrics ♫ October 2, 2017 ❤

I wrote the music first. Finally worked out the words. I wanted to record myself for the purpose of Mimi Lenox's annual Peace effort for November 4.  I recorded this late November 4th and didn't like the few efforts. But, here is one of those. It is not perfect. But neither is this world.  

 

300,000 pieces of space junk

After decades of using space for communication and defense, we’ve left it pretty polluted: there are now an estimated 300,000 pieces of space junk a centimeter or bigger in Earth’s orbit. Some are deactivated, decades-old satellites, but most are shards of metal — the result of rockets that exploded after use, or satellites that collided. Experts are worried that growing levels of space junk could make some orbits difficult or impossible to use, and space agencies are requiring satellite operators to be more careful with their equipment after it's decommissioned. Source

  Be brave.

Live out loud.

Let your light shine.

Save The Child In You

It takes courage to be true to yourself.

It takes a lot to be brave enough to live in your vulnerability.

Being cowardly is easy. Until it's not.

.Any cowardly moment is a moment spent alienated from our own true being

Pretending is not brave. It is just pretending. We put on an act when we feel vulnerable because we get afraid of being rejected for the real truth that we feel. That we are. We afford rejection of pretentious behavior because it is the pretending image we put out that gets rejected.   But.    It feels like a fraud  

We are most free when we can keep our vulnerability

Save the child in you.

Save the child in you.

For Rose ♫ Lullaby ♫ Swedish

♫ For Rosalie Bliss Hammel ♫

Born February 14, 2017, 7:19 pm

♫ Traditional Swedish Lullaby ♫

Picture February 15, 2017, 11:00 am