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2/2/2022 2 Comments

35. Hymn To Loving with Guest Lisa Forkish

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Song Hymn to Loving
Words & Music​ by Lisa Forkish
Lyrics
1. What if falling felt like flying?
What if flying felt like freedom?
Will I be healed? Will I be healed? Will I be healed?

2. What if freedom felt like living?
What if living felt like loving?
Will I be whole? Will I be whole? Will I be whole?

3. So in living, I am you;
And in loving, you are me, too.
Will we hold, and be held? Hold and be held?

Hold and be held. Is this what freedom feels like?

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Notes: Lisa Forkish shares her song, Hymn to Loving, and talks about song titling, songwriting away from keyboards, deconstructing binaries, singing as a pure, liberating expression of the self, learning to love and be tender with our voice... and the surprise of connections through Zoom. Now, maybe that's all immediately appealing to you, or maybe it sounds complicated and brain-challenging! Let me tell you, Lisa has a gentle, welcoming presence and wide-open curiosity and questioning that makes this conversation a pleasure to eavesdrop on -- and whether her views raise questions for you, or drop easily into your pocket, I hope you will find useful connections through Lisa's explanations and in the links to help you follow up on whatever sparks your interest. She talks a lot about what she experiences as healing in voice work... and a tiny bit about her experience with the movie, Pitch Perfect, and her role in popularizing and opening up the collegiate acapella world.

Songwriter Info: Lisa Forkish (she/they) is a queer singer-songwriter, community-builder, artivist, song-healer, and self-described "Love Warrior," infusing all she creates with fierce authenticity and heart. For the past 20 years, Lisa has been using song as both an expressive art and a tool for building connection. For Lisa, facilitating music spaces is much more than a job; it is a sacred calling. Lisa breathes humanity into their music and teaching with infectious joy and compassion, aiming to heal the wounds of music elitism and not-enoughness through an embodied, trauma-informed and heart-centered approach. For Lisa, Love is paramount and closeness is the antidote to cisheteropatriarchy, white supremacist delusion and cultural disconnection. Lisaʻs mission is to utilize music for personal and collective healing and liberation. 

Links:
Lisa's website: lisaforkish.com
Lisa's singing offerings: wesingthebody.com
adrienne maree brown (principles of emergent strategy): https://adriennemareebrown.net/
Holistic Resistance (Black-led movement facilitating racial justice and other work to heal oppression): https://www.holisticresistance.com/
white supremacy culture (what exactly does that mean?): https://www.whitesupremacyculture.info/
Rev angel Kyodo williams (radical dharma): https://angelkyodowilliams.com/
On Being podcast (Krista Tippett interviews with various people): https://onbeing.org/
Brene Brown (wholehearted, daring living): https://brenebrown.com/
Rhiannon (vocal art as vehicle for change; improvisation): https://rhiannonmusic.com/

Nuts & Bolts: 4:4, Mixolydian, verse followed by layer
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2 Comments
Resa Cirrincione
2/2/2022 10:50:04 am

Today it felt like two dear friends sitting in my home and speaking to the heart of music. What memories this podcast brought up! As a child I used to sing and improvise and write songs until the powers that be told me to stop making noise, and children in the neighborhood would taunt and laugh and boo until my 5 year old self would run into the house in tears. So of course I denied that part of me because it brought external pain, although to myself it had brought only joy. As I learn to tune into that part of me again, I realize "this is what freedom feels like." Love to you, Patricia, and Lisa, for bringing me back to my soul.

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Patricia Norton
2/2/2022 12:18:50 pm

What a beautiful experience, Resa, to be able to join your 5-year-old creative self with who you are now, and celebrate all that creativity! I'm so glad... thank you for letting us know -- that was generous and lovely of you!

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