May the poor find wealth,
Those weak with sorrow find joy.
May the forlorn find new hope,
Constant happiness and prosperity.
May the frightened cease to be afraid,
And those bound be free.
May the weak find power,
And may their hearts join in friendship

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To be alive now is to be battered by massive storms and threatened by mass violence. Some things, like the Las Vegas act of domestic terrorism, cannot simply be stated with words, traditional cultures had songs and rituals to help people carry and express things that could otherwise crush the human heart. May we come together in song in the midst of increasing chaos and the rhetoric of division and blame to re-member that an underlying unity exits at the level of the human soul.

may we awaken…