Author: joeholtaway

“If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.” Rainer Maria Rilke (Book of Hours)   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmJqxda0hXk   A quote from the German poet Rilke to go with the new season and new playlist from Canadian music channel Foxx's Frequency - 'Songs for September'; drawn from many international songwriters; amongst them my Let [...]

A song to share - Let Yourself Be Seen written last year and recorded between All Saints Church in Peckham and The Old Bowjie (pictured - Mum and Jon's cottage in Cornwall) Part of a collection of songs I'm gradually recording. Over the last few years I've been involved, volunteering and participating, in three groups [...]

A post about a new friend, Ali Mushaima. I'd seen Ali talk before at Amnesty International a few years ago at an event about the Arms Fair. A few weeks ago I had a message from another friend Sam Walton who works in Human Rights and Peace activism. Sam was putting a call out, one that [...]

  thanks Buddhafield for the photograph It's not our differences that divide us, it's our inability to recognise, accept and celebrate those differences. Audre Lorde Buddhafield, Plum Village and Greenbelt Festival - recordings, talks, songs and a relaxation August began with the Buddhafield Festival; run by the Triratna community, the Buddhist inspired festival runs every [...]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpLZKAv3eo4   June into July, 2 festivals; the Farm Festival Refugee project and Stroud Sacred Music weekend with songs and recorded sharings from some of those who I met there. links to other Summer events and an ep release.     This red brick house is home to a community of women Asylum seekers and their [...]

  about Joseph - Joseph is a writer and activist from Uganda, currently living in the UK supporting friends within the refugee community. I think of Joseph as a supporter of whoever comes across Joseph's path; a lover of nature and a peacemaker (and far too humble to say any of these things!) This piece [...]

May and June Roots into reverence pilgrimage including words from pilgrim Joseph and some of the evenings music sharing from the church), a festival recording with a Maya Angelou poem from the bbc introducing stage at The Great Estate festival and a bit more on the Catholic Worker Asylum seeker Farm project where i'll be on July the [...]

  April Wake Up Your Artist retreat in Germany with refugee fundraiser news and a week's worth of relaxation recordings, a new song inspired by friends at the Yorkshire environmental camps and some summer dates. “Every person is a world to explore.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh, How to Love     For those who came this [...]

  snow as idea of whiteness, as in snowdrop, snow goose, snowball bush... the snow that puts stars in your hair... the snow in the back of our heads, whiter than white, which has to do with childhood again each year. from 'Not Only The Eskimos' in collection Alive together by Lisel Meuller   The snow and [...]