Awakening

"What happens when your soul
Begins to awaken your eyes,
And your heart, And the cells of your body
To the great Journey of Love?" 14th century Persian poet, Hafiz

I thought that "Back Into the Garden", songs that started pouring out shortly after recording "The Journey", would be the followup to that first recording. Didn't realize that I was leaving out a step. We must awaken first, before we can experience Paradise. And so, the work expands into a trilogy.

Many are feeling the importance of these times. You can search the web on many topics related to Earth Changes and strange body symptoms that seem to have no precedent. Or you can be still and go inward and ask your own body what's going on. The answers really are inside us.

These are times of change...many would say, myself included, times of a great shift in conciousness. Time is compressing to the zero point, and then, as the Mayan calendar suggests, we enter a world of "No-Time", or perhaps, "Now-Time" is more appropriate. We are in a process of reconnecting mind and heart, body and spirit, and balancing our masculine and feminine energies. We are beginning, as a race of beings, to learn how to live from a compassionate heart space. Whatever is not in alignment with our expanding awareness has been coming up for review and release.

It can sometimes be challenging. However, it becomes easier when we stop resisting the process. We're up to the challenge. It is exactly why we are here on earth this very moment. Open up to your own highest possibilities. The time is Now...Blessings, Bonnie

This is a photo of the original members of The Dream Band, from left to right, John Lovejoy, Peter McConnel, Ezra Veitch, and myself, at a concert in Bellows Falls, Vermont in Fall of 2001. The photo below was taken with the newest band members at an open-air concert at the Annual Plymouth Folk and Blues series, sponsored by Jay Ottaway. It was a lovely late Summer day in the lush mountain setting of The Coolidge Homestead in Plymouth, Vermont in 2005.
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Musician's and vocalists for "Awakening" include, left to right: Dave Thomas, lead and rhythm guitar, Jay Cook, drums/percussion, John Lovejoy, keyboard, Bonnie Waters, guitar and vocals. (Not pictured: Peter McConnel, lead and rhythm guitar and vocals, Wendy Rezzonico, harmony vocals and percussion, Charley Downey, mandolin, Seth Harris, bizouki.)

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