go + sing to the mountain

first of all, let me say a great big THANK YOU to everyone who has taken part in the questions + answers post from the other day (find the post here)! it has been a thrill to read your answers and see what questions you’ve come up with. don’t you just love community?!

ok. now on to today’s post… i have been excitedly waiting since the beginning of november to share this with you.

as you know, or don’t know, maybe, i am a big music lover. while i wouldn’t consider myself a musician or a singer, i can play + i can sing – somewhat. hehe. in any case, music is and always has been a huge part of my daily life – and an extra little liz-fact: i am a genius when it comes to lyrics. true story. if you play it, i can sing it. hehe.

anyway, music touches me so very deeply, expressing things otherwise difficult to say or even process. the lyrics + instruments of a song lift + ground my soul all at the same time. i’m sure you know what i mean.

when i ran across the song that i have attached below, i loved how it sounded, but i didn’t really pay it too much attention. and then, one day, in the end of my meditation time in the morning, I came across the song again. as it began to play, i was carried away in my mind. i was deep in the midst of a magical forest, with a cracking bonfire, and bright stars above me. in my meditation, i danced around that fire, and i celebrated the powerful moments that i have had late at night, all alone – just me + the mountains.

here’s one of the powerful moments that i remembered: about 20-25 years ago i went camping with my family. i decided to wander away from our campsite  quite late in the evening to get some time alone. to just soak in the night. i vividly remember stopping at one point, under the trees where there was a clearing, in a space where i could see the dark sky up above me. only, it wasn’t dark. it was sparkling + twinkling with millions of stars. and, in that moment, i experienced a deep connection with the universe – with all that is and was and will be – like i had never experienced before. i was so small, and yet so important. i was so alone, and yet completely connected. connected even to you, who i do not know, or you, who i did not yet know, and you, who i have known for years.

on that mountain that night my soul sang. there were no words. there was only the music of my heartbeat and the beep breathing of the natural world all around me.

and so, when i heard this song below a couple of weeks ago, i was immediately transported back to that moment in my teenage years. and i felt those feelings, again. not in exactly in the same way, of course, but with the same emotions. all that my soul wanted to do was to sing to the mountain, again + again. and, i realized, that who i was back then – and those moments that touched me so deeply, are some of the same things that still touch me so deeply today. and with that realization, i knew that i had a found a true, authentic part of my soul – an unchanging, unwavering piece of me

i leave you, now, with this song… so excited to share it with you. i didn’t attach a youtube video on purpose. i want you to just listen. listen + be. let your mind flow. just feel whatever comes. and celebrate that you, too, are an integral part of this great, vast, magical, beautiful, mysterious universe.

wishing you magical, starry nights of soul-filling light + love. xx