Destination is the Journey

Destination is The Journey

- Shawna Ray, original song written Oct 20, 2008

I seem to just wander all over the page

You say to go forward and put things in place

But I say this time spent in motion and dreams

Is creative direction and maybe it seems

We circle to get to the core

Until the journey takes me to the point

Where all of this meandering makes more sense

While I get there you will hear me sing

The destination is the journey

The winding of lines are all so intertwined

Look out at the rivers where streams meet in time

They push but still turn, avoiding the damn block

Still moving though slowly eroding the rock 

Life moves with intentions unseen

Until the journey takes me to the point

Where all of this meandering makes more sense

While I get there you will hear me sing

The destination is the journey

So you keep your straight lines and boxes for containing

I’ll keep my circles, emoji  is still smiley

You keep your type A for fixing and dictating

I am OK with Being me 

As the journey takes me to the point

Where all of this meandering makes more sense

While I get there you will hear me sing

the destination is…

(The Muppets) Near------ far ---

So near ------and far

 The destination

The whole fixation...

And seemingly aimless direction
In art and laughter
The now and the after
The raw fresh beauty 
In family and nature
This is a journey!
Please share it with me
Life is a journey!

Birthday

So I had another BIRTHDAY on April 30th. My Mom planned a dinner party with some of my lifelong friends and surprised me by flying my sister Amy in from New York. It was a fun weekend, even though I have been dreading this particular mile marker on the journey that is life. 

Birthdays are moments in time when I was meant to arrive into this life experience. If I had been born at any other time, I would be a completely different person. And yet it seems that looking back, I spent much of my time and energy wishing I looked like someone else or had a different life. Why do we do that? Let’s ENJOY this time by accepting who we are, as is, and be HAPPY on this BIRTHDAY! Of course this makes me think (MMT) and write a SONG about it…

Turning of an age
I see the candles on a cake
And wonder where am I suppose to be by now?
On a no back track
I picture what lies up ahead
And make myself get out of the bed to take next steps...

Moving into 
chapter two
On to thirty
Forty, fifty
Birthdays
Celebrate
Life is good
When we're living 
Presently
OoooOH, presently

Friends and family call
To wish me well, posts on the wall
Bring out a smile, inside I still feel like a child
Do I blow a wish?
Or is it more about the breath?
That I take in to capture moments of alive

Moving into 
Chapter two
On to thirty
Forty, fifty
Birthdays
Celebrate
Life is good
When we're living
Presently
OoooOH, presently

Learning to be healthy is happy
Loving and feeling it all
Now choosing the things I want to receive
Throwing the other trash out

Writing a new 
Chapter two
On to thirty
Forty, fifty
Unafraid!
Celebrate
Life is good
Loving and living
Presently
OooooOH, presently

-shawna ray, today 4/30/13

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Weeping Willow by Shawna Ray

(New song lyrics that I feel led to share tonight...)

Weeping willow
Standing solo
Let your heart grow
Baby don't you know you're beautiful?
Weeping willow
Dodging shadows
Please don't let go
Baby you are meant for so much more

Sometimes it's hard to see beyond
Emotional is chemical
So step outside and let it out
The fragile soul longs to belong

Weeping willow
Standing solo
Let your heart grow
Baby don't you know you're beautiful?
Weeping willow
Dodging shadows
Please don't let go
Baby you are meant for so much more

The tears will fall, the voices shout
Talk to someone that you can trust
Retrain the brain, look for the good
Let yourself laugh breathe in and out

Weeping willow
Standing solo
Let your heart grow
Baby don't you know you're beautiful?
Weeping willow
Dodging shadows
Please don't let go
Baby you are meant for so much more

Stay open, ride the tide
I see your smiling eyes
Pray through the darkest night
There's hope in the new sunrise

Weeping willow
Standing solo
Let your heart grow
Baby don't you know you're beautiful?
Weeping willow
Dodging shadows
Please don't let go
Baby you are meant for so much more
So much more
So much more
So much more
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Live, Give, Love, Laugh, Learn,
-shawna ray

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