60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday: "If Each One Did Just One Thing Beautifully"
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Hello to you listening in Sebastopol, California!
Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday and your host, Diane Wyzga.
I have been following legendary singer/songwriter, actress, teacher, and broad-coalition activist Holly Near for decades and decades. Once upon a time I sat in on a concert she gave at the Orange Coast Unitarian Universalist Church in Costa Mesa, California. My life was never the same. I felt then that music can be a vehicle for empathy, understanding, introspection, and social evolution in a rapidly changing world.
Of her many songs that speak to me and millions of listeners like me Planet Called Home never fails to resonate. It’s the kind of earth-moving inspirational that will make your socks roll up and down and get you using your creativity to help this planet called home. How? “If each one did just one thing beautifully * Complex life on Earth might not die.”
Click HERE to listen to Holly Near sing Planet Called Home/The Souls Are Coming Back on her recording of the same name.
Click HERE to watch and listen to Holly Near’s performance of Planet Called Home given at the 2003 Bioneers National Conference.
Story Prompt: What is the one thing you can do beautifully? Are you ready to brave what it will take to do that for our Planet Called Home? Write that story!
Planet Called Home [Song by Holly Near]
… Can you call on your imagination
As if telling a myth to a child
Put in the fantastical, wonderful, magical
Add the romantic, the brave and the wild
… Once upon a time there was a power
So great that no one could know its name
People tried to change it and rule with it
But always such arrogance ended in shame.
… Thousands of years would pass in a moment
Hundreds of cultures would come and go
Each generation with a glorious calling
Even when they were too busy to know
… And then one day after two millennia
Which after all was a small part of time
Hundreds of souls found their way out of nowhere
To be on earth at the threat of decline
… Let’s all go, they moved as one being
Even though each would arrive here alone
They promised to work in grace with each other
To brave the beautiful planet called home
… Now, there was no promise that they could save it
But how exciting to give it a try
If each one did just one thing beautifully
Complex life on Earth might not die
… And so they arrived in a spectrum of colors
The population on earth did explode
Some threw themselves in front of disaster
And others slowly carried their load
… Some adopted small girls from China
Some lived high in the branches of trees
Some died as martyrs, some lived as healers
And, some bravely walked with a dreadful disease
… They mingled among each class and each culture
Not one of them could be identified
But together they altered just enough moments
To help the lost and the terrified
… To step outside of our egos and bodies
To know for once that we truly are one
Then quickly we would forget to remember
But that’s okay, their job was well done
… And earth went on for another millennium
Now its time for this song to end
This magical story of hope and wonder
Invites you all to wake up and pretend to be
… Fabulous creatures sent from the power
Souls that have come with one purpose in mind
To do one thing that will alter the outcome
And maybe together we can do it in time
… Can you call on your imagination
As if telling a myth to a child
Put in the fantastical, wonderful, magical
Add the romantic, the brave and the wild
The souls are comin back
The souls are comin back
The souls are comin back!
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