Friday, 26 October 2007

  • Daily Insights (12/28) +Audio Blog, Original Music, Poem, Art, Pic, and Instructional Video...

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    Daily Insights (12/8) +Audio Blog, Original Music, Poem, Art, Pic, and Instructional Video...

    from Lifecoach, Teacher of Instrumental and Vocal Music, Author and Artist, Michael D. Purvis

    Welcome Viewers!

    So glad you stopped by...

    I just did a new self-portrait photo shoot, which I plan to use for my various blogs and sites (since I have not had some new photos of myself in some time). So that you will know what I really look like (rather than seeing me 2-10 years ago) I have inserted a slideshow of these photos below.

    I also just made...

    A new blog! Please visit often and put it in your favs: http://michaelloverofthearts.blogspot.com/

    Below the new slideshow...

    I list for you where you may find me on the web.

    Then...

    it's on to the newest blog entry.

    Enjoy!

    Michael :)

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    WHERE YOU MAY FIND ME, MICHAEL,
    ON THE WEB:
    It is my goal to be helpful to you
    in many ways, dear viewer! :)
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    BACKPOSTS OF THIS BLOG:
    This ENTIRE blog has lots4U2C +daily entry, but4ALL daily posts:
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    MY TEXT AND AUDIO BLOGS

    MY NEW AUDIO BLOG:

    http://audio.xanga.com/michael_lover_of_the_arts

    MY 360 BLOG :

    http://360.yahoo.com/michael_lover_of_the_arts

    MY XANGA BLOG (NOW FUNCTIONING BETTER!):

    http://www.xanga.com/michael_lover_of_the_arts/

    MY BLOGGER BLOG:

    http://michaelloverofthearts.blogspot.com/

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    A HUGE, ILLUSTRATED ANTHOLOGY
    OF MY STORIES:
    "The Abundant Storybook"
    (For Children, Youths, Young Adults, Adults, Couples and Senior Citizens)
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    MY "LITLE BOOK OF WISDOM"
    (Truly practical advice on living life peacefully and well!)
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    CDS OF MY ORIGINAL MUSIC:

    (Which I am currently drawing upon for my Audio Blog)

    http://www.abundantchange.com/products.html?target=ixmusic.html

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    MY WEBSITES:

    ABUNDANTCHANGE.COM

    Uplift/Enjoyment for all ages in book, cd, cassette and video formats by Michael

    http://www.Abundantchange.com

    PLAYSINGNDREAM.COM:

    Homestudy in piano, voice, guitar, art/craft, lifecoaching

    http://www.PlaySingNDream.com

    MUSIC-OUTREACH.COM

    For senior citizens and oldies music lovers

    http://www.Music-Outreach.com

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    NEWEST AUDIO BLOG,
    POEM AND TEXT BLOG ENTRY
    Insights, Expression,
    Counsel and Instruction
    from Michael

    HELLO DEAR VIEWER,

    MY NEWEST AUDIO BLOG ENTRY:

    Here is the latest recording I have posted for you:

    I have posted an audio blog on my Xanga site.It’s a track from my CD "Within" which is entitled, "Blessed are You who Irritate Us" which speaks to the idea that though relationships can be frustrating, they are one of the primary ways we learn and grow.

    Enjoy....

    Here is the link to my audio blog where you will find "Blessed are You who Irritate Us":

    http://audio.xanga.com/michael_lover_of_the_arts

    Here is the link to the page on my website where you will find my "Within" CD:

    http://www.abundantchange.com/products.html?target=ixmusic.html

    Here are the lyrics to "Blessed are You who Irritate Us":

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    BLESSED ARE YOU WHO IRRITATE US

    Verse 1:

    Blessed are you who irritate us.

    Blessed are you who hate and debate us.

    In holy relationship we learn and grow,

    And holy relationships reap what they sow.

    Chorus:

    In you, we see ourselves,

    You force us to grow-

    That’s why we’re so mad at you!

    You hold up the mirror and we see ourselves,

    And all of those things that we fear,

    Those things that we fear!

    Verse 2:

    In holy relationships we all take turns.

    It might feel uncomfortable, but that’s how we learn-

    You are our teachers, oh don’t you know;

    You make us so angry, but oh please don’t go!

    Repeat Chorus:

    In you, we see ourselves,

    You force us to grow-

    That’s why we’re so mad at you!

    You hold up the mirror and we see ourselves,

    And all of those things that we fear,

    Those things that we fear!

    Lyrics, music and orchestrations by Michael D. Purvis

    Vocals sung and all instruments played by Michael D. Purvis

    © 2001

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    A POEM BY MICHAEL FOR YOU
    Some poetic expression

    Here is the link to the page on my website where you will find books of my poetry:

    http://www.abundantchange.com/products.html?target=ixpoetry.html

    Here is a link to an audio file of me reading the poem:

    http://www.abundantchange.com/music/harpq1.html

    Here is my poem "On Change":

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    On Change

    "How true the old saying,

    'Yield and you need not break'!

    How completely it comes home!"

    -Lao Tzu

    Once,

    I heard someone observe

    that human beings are by nature uncomfortable with life,

    that we are not at ease with our journey.

    My father used to say,

    "Life bloodies us,"

    and then quote the poet:

    "'Life ain't no crystal stair', son."

    Today,

    thumbing through yellowed pages,

    I found Lao Tzu's ancient words,

    And found them full of wisdom:

    "Yield and you need not break:

    Bent you can straighten,

    Empty you can mend; …"

    I thought then of Jesus,

    sitting on a hillside long ago

    with his flock, his lambs,

    saying-

    "Consider the lilies of the field…"

    Fathers, poets, philosophers and God's Son-

    All with wisdom for God's children.

    Change?

    We must.

    Worry?

    We are bound to, at least a little-

    But we try to follow the advice of sages, of God:

    Bend, yield,

    search for Divinity and heal…

    We must ever remain a green twig,

    Green inside, no matter our age in years

    (time being an illusion, I suspect more and more).

    We must be molded and shaped,

    By God, by fate-

    It is bend or break.

    And if we break, for lack of bending,

    having become rigid, dry, unbending-

    we must heal, take time to become green again inside.

    Change is our lot.

    And when we join in our bending with others and with God,

    in a dance of green twigs,

    intertwining, weaving our lives together, our spirits-

    we make beautiful baskets!

    baskets in which others, wearied and broken, are carried,

    baskets in which gifts are given,

    baskets which are both gift and giver.

    We carry others that they might rest, and be healed-

    and sometimes

    we too are carried.

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    MY NEWEST TEXT BLOG ENTRY:

    On "When others do not live up to our expectations:"

    I thought the quote I list below was really good. I sent it to my partner and to a friend recently. See the link to the website from which it comes below the quote. This kind of goes along with my song "Blessed are you who Irritate Us" (see my audio blog above).

    If I do not want what you want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong.

    Or if I believe other than you, at least pause before you correct my view.

    Or if my emotion is less than yours, or more, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel more strongly or weakly.

    Or yet if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, let me be.

    I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up changing me into a copy of you.

    I may be your spouse, your parent, your offspring, your friend, or your colleague. If you will allow me any of my own wants, or emotions, or beliefs, or actions, then you open yourself, so that some day these ways of mine might not seem so wrong, and might finally appear to you as right -- for me. To put up with me is the first step to understanding me. Not that you embrace my ways as right for you, but that you are no longer irritated or disappointed with me for my seeming waywardness. And in understanding me you might come to prize my differences from you, and, far from seeking to change me, preserve and even nurture those differences.

    http://www.keirsey.com/

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