Live It For Today was first inspired by my niece. After serving in the army in the Middle East where she was on call for ‘Booty Duty’ (which was to secure women safely from one place to another), she decided to seize the opportunity and get a college degree on full scholarship. While visiting Drexel University here in Philadelphia, her mother came down to be with us. While sitting together before dinner, her mother just happened to reach across and place her healing hands on her daughter’s neck. While massaging she instantly located a lump in the throat area. It was not visible to the naked eye. With a concerned tone, she told her daughter to go straight to the doctor and get it checked. She kept saying ‘Immediately, this is not good.’ Being a nurse, she knew the lump could be cancerous. So my niece’s plans of attending college were mired by throat cancer. The good news is that after having her thyroid removed and some treatment, a year later she was able to follow her dream and is now mid way to graduation! And so it goes… you can see the healing hands of the Divine in this.
From a mother’s touch to early detection and now a healthier today. Thus the title for this song. Live it for today. However, while writing the piece the lyrics began to express something quite different. So interesting how you can start with one idea and end up with quite another. The song started to express through the lenses with which I myself witness my life unfolding, and the timelessness between changing seasons. Seems like her predicament brought up my own personal relationship with ‘dying’ and death. After all, aren’t we all dying every day? One day past, never to come again? Aren’t we all set to a destiny clock ticking away as each birth year comes and the numbers climb? … Or do they climb at all? And are we from a wider perspective more likely spiraling inward, round and round so that no matter what ‘happens’ in this our life, on some level, we, our soul as consciousness are’ going’ nowhere at all. What a conundrum between what we call ‘ life’ and what we call ‘death’. What a puzzling wonder!
All these messages hidden yet made clear by the very nature of death and dying in Mother nature’s own beginning and endless cycles. Here, where even the visibly ‘dead’ corn stalks of destiny clocking in end of life for dying autumn leaves … is this really finite death? … Or more likely a new configuration in motion yet unseen? Round and round… What a trick to the naked eye! Ha! And my own clarity at once revealed.
“If one thing becomes another, that’s how I know, it’s just that clear.
I’ll Always Be here."
lyrics
I can feel it coming on
How the day does claim it
Way too young to be this way
How to shake this?
Living life this way not caring why these leaves are turning
Braseless on a whim beyond the need to feel I'm growing
So grateful to be here just living for today
I'm living for today
Summers come, oh how they go
For waves do not tarry
Autumn changes Winter's song into Spring's awakening
Round and round it goes
With no beginnings there's no endings
Just tampered by a snow under a solstice of repentance
There's nothing left to fear just living for today
I"m living for today
Take away this house and all that I hold dear
'Cause I'm going nowhere I'm gonna be here
Take away this life and all its mess ups too
If one thing becomes another
That's how I know
It's just that clear I'll always
I'll always be here
I'm living for today
Not for tomorrow or even next year
But live it for, live it for today
credits
from Divine,
track released September 18, 2018
Yvette: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Jon Dichter: Electric Guitar
Ben Leinbach: Acoustic Guitar, Bass, Percussion
Arranged, Mixed and Recorded by Ben Leinbach
Composition by Yvette
Produced by Ben Leinbach and Yvette
Mastered by TurtleTone Studio
Photography by Christopher Pecoraro
CD Packaging Design and Art Work by Matthew Canale
Yvette began her musical career in the theatre both as a performer and co-writer of musicals. After her yoga
certification, Yvette began to explore the healing and spiritual nature of sound especially in the form of chanting Sanskrit Mantra. Today her music is a mystical blend of traditional Eastern music with western popular melody, grass rooted in a wide range of folk, pop-english rock....more
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