Music for the soul

Pythagoras once said that even a rock is music compacted to stone.

What a wise man he was! So in fact: everything is music.

I love to express my feelings through music, to connect with my soul again by singing melodies that come to my mind spontaneously.

I love to listen to the music of nature and get inspired by it. And I just started to compose my own songs.

I've always loved music and so I learned to play the piano a bit, when I was a young girl. I also started to teach myself to play the guitar and the ukulele.

Some years ago I bought myself a harp.

I just LOVE this instrument! The sound is so airy-fairy, mystical and wonderful!

I have also sung in different choirs and bands when I still had the time.

After I became a mum, I didn't have much time left to make music.

But now, since my children are a bit older I started to make music, again.

When I was a little girl I always wanted to become a singer.

So I practiced with my sisters many times to sing polyphonic songs and we even gave little 'concerts' for our family and friends.

Now, since I have decided to finally live my passions and follow my heart, I want to come closer towards this dream of mine from childhood on, to compose and create my own music.

I love peacful, calm and harmonious music. It's the music that connects me with my soul again.

I love REAL music. Music with voices and real instruments. Music that tells a story. Music that touches my heart.

Many traditional folk songs and ancient melodies are resonating with my soul. Reconnecting me with my ancestors, the spirits around us and the heartbeat of mother earth.

So, I love to sing and play old, traditional folk songs from Germany (and we have many of them!) and also from Ireland (they have many, too), Scandinavia and other countries and cultures of this wonderful world.

I have already composed some songs and I've just started to work on a record. I'm so excited about it!

But being a single-mum of three, a naturopathy student and a multi-passionate artist, it is not always easy to bring everything together.

If by chance you would like to support my artistic work I would be beyond happy if you decided to become one of my patrons on the online platform Patreon.

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I hope I'll get ahead with my music projects well, so I will be able to present you one of my original songs, very soon.

Meanwhile, you can follow me on SoundCloud if you like...

Thank you that you accompany me on my journey!

Love,

Sarah

Just do it anyway!

Often during the last months I have been doubting if I would be able to live my dream to work as an artist when I barely have the time to be creative..?

But the other question is: how long can I supress my passions?

One of my latest paintings

It's like an inner dispute between heart and mind, arguing with each other.

Sometimes the arguments from 'one side' sound more logical and better to follow and sometimes the 'other side' would prevail.

More than just black or white

But the truth is: there is more than black and white. I guess I don't HAVE TO make up my mind with a fixed idea of how my future is going to look like..?

So I realized that the first thing I need to do is to let go is all these expactations and claims towards myself. Let go of the belief that everything needs to be perfect in order to be 'good enough'. And meanwhile I let go of these things, a lot of pressure fell off of me.

​Pressure I had built up myself.

Well, being a single-mom is not always easy, definitely not. There are so many things to do, to care for, to organize and to keep in mind. And the days are running by so fast!

And there are also my studies (Naturopathy) I'm dealing with - BUT: There just HAS to be some time for myself. Full stop.

I think if I would wait now again for the 'right moment' to do what I love to do the most, that moment would just never come ..?!

So, I'm doing it anyway!

Live like you were dying

Yes, sometimes we probably should just think less and live more! The way we want to.

And this is what I did this summer. Even when I didn't manage to keep it up until now - after all creativity needs inspiration, time and muse and that comes and goes like waves on the shore - but at least I dared to start again. And that fills me with joy and satisfaction.

I have actually made a little video about finding back to creativity.

Me and my children spent a beautiful day outside on the meadow where our sheep and goats graze. I brought a little table and many paints, canvases and brushes. So we painted all the afternoon til late evening. And not long ago I finished the picture that I started to paint in this video.

Maybe this video will motivate you too, to grab yourself some paints and just paint!?

I hope so!

Thank you for reading my blog!

This means a lot to me. I hope that reading this may have encouraged you, to to one of the things you love to do, but didn't do for a long time, because of all the other things, that needed to be done, because of the lack of time, because of... whatever reason.

Just do it anyway!

Lots of Love to you,

Sarah