Tag: Conscious Living

I Surrender – Celine Dion, live

‘I Surrender’ performed live in Las Vegas by Céline Dion

This still takes my breath away every time I hear it I tear up and shiver. First heard it when I was surrendering, letting go, giving all to Creator… learning to totally Trust. Celine’s performance of this song touched my heart and Soul to a degree words can’t describe. Love poured through me, arms wrapped around my body.. I knew without a doubt I was deeply loved, protected, always taken care of and nurtured. All that was required of me was to surrender to Creator, Be and Love all that is… so easy, yet… so difficult. Every time I listen to it I have the same intense and incredible experience. Thanks Céline for such an inspiring performance… WOW!

Céline Dion, Song: I Surrender, album: A New Day Has Come (2002), Label: Sony. Official website www.celinedion.com.

Céline Marie Claudette Dion born March 30, 1968 in Charlemagne, Quebec, Canada is a singer/songwriter/actress. She is the youngest of 14 children of a highly musical family. She began singing at age 5 and regularly preformed with her siblings at a nightclub her parents owned. Céline began to receive recognition for her talent in 1982, winning the Gold Medal at the Yamaha World Song Festival in Tokyo, along with the coveted Musician’s Award for Top Performer. In 1983, she became the first Canadian ever to receive a Gold Record in France. In 2004, after becoming the best selling female artist of all time, she was presented with the Chopard Diamond Award at the World Music Awards.

~Bonnee Klein Gilligan

January 29, 2009
The Music of Ink Painting: Breath

‘The Music of Ink Painting: Breath’ by Chang Jing

Stunning! Takes you away to some far off place that says… Quiet… Breathe… just Be. Lovely video, very interesting sound combinations. I love it!

Chang Jing, Song: Breath (音樂山水畫：呼吸), album: Open Music Li Xian 离弦 (2005) Performed and co-composed by Chang Jing. Learn more and download the album.

The Chinese zither or guzheng is a traditional musical instrument with a unique ancient sound.

Chang Jing was born in Chengdu, Sichuan, at the age of 8 she began studying the guzheng. She attended Sichuan Conservatory of Music a middle school affiliated with the guzheng. From 1991-1995 she attended China Conservatory of Music and graduated first in her class, then joined China Song and Dance Troupe. I couldn’t find an official webpage or additional information.

~Bonnee Klein Gilligan

January 27, 2009
It Beats For You – My Morning Jacket, live

‘It Beats for You’ – My Morning Jacket, live

Haunting, pretty song… about consciousness, love and belief. I love the line ‘Just Believe and You can Do’… so true. This live performance is different from others the band has done.

My Morning Jacket, Song: It Beats for You, Album: Z (2005), Label: ATO/RCA, Website: My Morning Jacket

It Beats for You lyrics:

Who Could See And Not Believe?

The Heart That Beats The Wavelength.

And Who Could Say But Never Do.

Things They’ve Said To Someone Who

Thru All That’s Been And All Will Be –

So In Line So Thoughtfully(Lessly)

In Tune With You. So In Time For Me.

New Thoughts Arrive.

So In Time For Me.

Who Can Count The Time I’m Beatin… With My Hands?

Who Can Stop The Smoke From Breathin… In My Head?

Words Will Come And Words Will Go.

Make Believe And Overthrow.

Just Believe And You Can Do.

You Know My Heart – It Beats For You.

It Beats4u – So In Time We Beat.

Your Thoughts Align – So In Time With Me.

~Bonnee Klein Gilligan

January 25, 2009
Opalescent Sky

‘Opalescent Sky’ photo by Harold Leinbach

‘Opalescent Sky’ is my name for this exquisite photograph. Again Creator treats us to beautiful displays reminding us that everything is sacred and that we progress. What colors and patterns! Again we are shown colors that aren’t ‘normally’ seen in a rainbow spectrum… pastels… turquoise, pink, lavender, golden pink. And is that an eight or infinity? Perhaps a message of our infinite nature… everything is possible… endless possibilities. Our visualizations of Divine Nature made manifest. This sky is magnificent! Thank you, thank you for this gift, again… thank you Beloved Creator. You continue to awe and amaze with beauty and majesty.

Photo was taken in Boulder, Colorado January 2, 2009 by Harold Leinbach. He says of the sky,

“The pastel colors were lovely and the billowing cloud shapes were quite fascinating.”

Atmospheric optics expert Les Cowley explains: “For brightly-colored iridescence you need cloud droplets of all the same size. You get that if all the droplets have formed at the same time and experienced the same history. Dynamic conditions inside a lee cloud are just what the doctor ordered. The clouds look stationary but inside there is a ‘factory conveyor’ with uniform droplets formed at one end and evaporated at the other. Voila – iridescence.”

Lee waves may be found downwind of all mountains–not just the Rockies. If you live in the lee, keep an eye out for pastels in the sky.

~Bonnee Klein Gilligan

January 23, 2009
Goodness Gracious Great Balls of Fire

$'Night Streaker' photo by Howard Edin September 30, 2008$

‘Night Streaker’ photo by Howard Edin. Captured from the Okie-Tex Star Party, September 30, 2008

‘Night Streaker’ is my name for this beautiful… awe filled sight. A fireball streaks by Orion through the night sky. Glorious displays lighting up the skies all over the world. Thank you Beloved Creator, thank you!

The American Meteor Society says it has had 45 separate fireballs reported to them so far in 2009. There were 40 fireballs reported during the month of January in 2008. In the last 90 days there have been sightings in: California, Sweden, New Zealand, Middle East, Canada, Africa, Argentina, Vancouver B.C., Colorado, West Virginia, Washington, Oregon, Arizona, Ireland, Brazil, China… more.

January 19 – Fireball in Southern California
January 19, 2009 5:33pm PST a brilliant fireball was reported by over 24 people from California, Nevada and Arizona. It was reported to be as bright as the full moon magnitude -13.

January 17 – Fireball in Sweden

January 17, 2009 19:09 UT, a beautiful brilliant blue sky was Creator’s gift as a fireball lit the night in Scandinavia. It exploded with a rumbling boom. The photo is from a video. You can see videos, read reports and articles at TV2 ØST or SpaceWeather.com Scandinavian Fireball.

My thoughts…

Are there more fireballs? It seems like there are more sightings… but maybe we are just gazing at the sky more… aware… looking… waiting for something. When we see something we gasp in wonder, point and say, ‘oh ah… amazing, glorious!’ or ‘ah oh… doom and gloom!’ Are these sightings apocalyptic? Are they signs of the end?

I see them a signs… wonderful signs of change. More of Creator’s gifts and blessings. Messages to get our attention… they say, ‘Stop for a moment, watch… pause… breathe… Be’. When we are awe filled, in appreciation and wonder we are One… and in that moment we begin to feel and recognize our Oneness.

All of the glorious blessings Creator showers upon us daily are signs of change. Signs of the ending of old ways which no longer work. Like the snake sloughing off of old skin to be renewed or the phoenix being consumed by fire then reborn from its’ own ash. Not end as in death or cataclysm… but end of a cycle. Now we are reborn into our full glory and majesty… as we were originally intended to be.

Now is the cycle or yuga of Light… 2,000 years of Peace. Christ has come… Buddha is here… it is Us… we are That! The waiting is over… today is 2012… the time we’ve been waiting for is NOW. It is not about a timeline or calendar date… it is about raising and changing consciousness. We have fully embraced ourselves, climbed the mountain and are standing on the peak saying, ‘Who am I? Where am I? What am I?’.

Now we remake ourselves. From this moment… do all with joy. Remake yourself into what you have always dreamed. Create! This is the Grace of NOW!

Be the glorious greatness that you are my friend. Love from the depths of your being … everything… all. Rejoice!

~Bonnee Klein Gilligan

January 21, 2009