Inspiration Bench

A Legacy of Passion

You

Ferdine Cloutier, Grandmere

Cecile Gignac, Meme

Alice Wells, Grandmother

JoAnn Wells, Mother

Michele Birch-Conery, Intima

You

lived with compassionate passion

trials of your oppressions – inner and outer

dropping seeds of polyphonic sound,

in the Earth of my body.

You

showed me how to stumble into fluid grace –

remarkable in your imperfections.

You

are free now, flying on Hawk’s wings

hanging out in one nest

over drinks with Shekinah.

Barbara Billey, 07 Feb 2021

Hawk Sounds

You Got to Run (Spirit of the Wind)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5zb0WTSLsY

You Got To Run (Spirit of the Wind)

Buffy Sainte-Marie, Tanya Tagaq

Whether you're woman or whether you're man
Sometimes you got to take a stand
Just because you think you can
You got to run
You got to run

Trying against the odds you're in a trance
Say who did you think you are to have a chance?
You're a no one from a place
Where everyone knows your face
The come and go way they know the sun
So you better hang on and hey you better run
'Cause here's your chance and your race has begun

Down in a hole
You feel like two different people in your soul
Feel like a loser until you see that as you bend
You learn to be your own best friend
And you learn how and you learn when
To take a chance on the spirit of the wind

Whether you're woman or whether you're man
Sometimes you got to take a stand
Just because you think you can
You got to run
You got to run

Babe ain't we been down
We've been so broke and been so low that I kissed the ground
But you can see yourself a winner
Beyond the money and the greed
Beyond the pride is a pure untested need
And to be a champion is more than luck and speed
It's power and freedom in the spirit of the wind

Whether you're woman or whether you're man
Sometimes you got to take a stand
Just because you know you can
You got to run
You got to run

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Buffy Sainte-Marie / Ian Fern Campeau / Thomas Ehren / Timothy Hill Craig