“With stammering lips and insufficient sounds, I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (English Poet; March 6th, 1806 to June 29th, 1861)
“Psychologists say that deafness, or a severe hearing loss, acquired after a human being has known hearing, can be te single greatest trauma a person can experience.”
Hannah Merker (Writer)
“I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of the earth…”
Kate Chopin (American Author; February 8th, 1850 to August 22nd, 1904)
“I love my ability to hear. I have been having so much fun listening to decades of music and film. I delight in waking up to the birds chirping outside our bedroom window.”
–Ban Breathnach, Sarah. “Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy”. Grand Central Publishing. (1976). Kindle Page 132 to 134 of 501.
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Neil and I went to Luther Burbank Park on Mercer Island so I could break some bone China plates in the old dairy barn remains. It is part of my art therapy to heal past traumas. After walking to the beach to smudge post the reckoning, Our pair of eagles nesting in the tall firs overlooking the point had one of the regal eagles sitting in the nest. I felt so honored to have the eagle bare witness to my healing journey. I am so blessed and in the “FLOW”.🦅
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