Dear Friends,
If you're reading this, you might have attended the Tending Your Fire, Tending Your Heart retreat for Twin Cities Organizers + Mutual Aid Folx from Friday, February 21 through Sunday, February 23, 2025. Thank you for carrying a load for your community in a season of deep service and to lay it all down for a weekend to receive some spaciousness and care.
Here is a list of the songs we sang over the weekend with links to online recordings.
- Carry This All (Ahlay Blakely)
- Come and Gather Round the Table (adapted from Fly Away Home) - ask Liz for a recording
- Endless Boundless Gratitude (Samara Jade)
- Gather / We Are Not Alone (Joanna Laws Landis)
- Healing is Possible (Orion Johnstone)
- (Hey There) Abolish (adapted from Hey There Delilah by Plain White T’s) - Video-chorus: Video-verse:
- I am receiving (Lyndsey Scott)
- I did not come here alone (The Peace Poets)
- I think you shouldn't do more (Gloria's song) - see the link in the post-retreat email
- I send my hope (Jordan Mudd)
- Liberation, Solidarity (adapted from Earth My Body) - ask Liz for all the words
- Loosen, Loosen (Aly Halpert) - OR https://youtu.be/X-_7XfaS7Mc
- Net of Remembrance (Ahlay Blakely) - youtube
- O Bless the Food* (Okie Dokie Brothers?)
- Open Sentences (Ahlay Blakely)
- The Way Knows the Way (Lyndsey Scott) - plus https://thebirdsings.com/thewayknows/; and new album https://lyndseyscott.bandcamp.com/track/the-way-knows
- There is enough (Kerri Meyer)
* no known recording online. Please share in the comments if you find one!
** the composer/catcher of this song is not known to us. If you do know, please pass it on in the comments. :)
Here's a list of Resources:
Oracle Card Decks
Having a tangible tool to sit with and reflect our feelings back to us helps us slow down, process, and make space for emotional work and intentions we otherwise tend to ignore.
- Rest Deck by Tricia Hersey (https://thenapministry.com/rest-deck/) based on Hersey's book "Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto"
- Sacred Incantations: rituals of trans wisdom for every season - from Enfleshed.
Buddha Board
Instruments
CajonTab by Louson Drum - Liz has one of the Pro series. Get to know a bit of the cajon's musical history here. Use Liz's affiliate link to get 10% off.- Shruti Box, literally "sound" or "singing" in ancient Sankrit, replicates the sound of the Tambura, an East Asian Indian drone instrument. Part of the family of drone instruments that show up in many cultures, related to bagpipes and harmoniums. Conie's instrument is from Shrutibox.com run by Ron Kravitz of https://www.musicinthemoment.com/ in Philadelphia, PA
May all of these resources support you in your work and in your rest.
Liz and Conie, a.k.a. Good Trouble
