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Nature
11:37
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NATURE (Billie Davies)
Take deep breaths
Dig your feet deep in the soft sand of the beaches
Let the ocean play in your ears
Build sand castles
Let the rain fall on your skin
Play in the mud
Have breakfast in the grass
Listen to the birds
Be one with nature
Be one with the ones you love
Share a meal with close ones
Say good morning to the world around you
To the nature you belong to
Have breakfast in the grass
Feel nature
Watch and listen to and smell nature
Feel happy for a new day
Feel the ones you love
Feel the energy of nature
Walk hand in hand in the hand of the moon
Have breakfast in the grass
Have breakfast in the grass
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Life
06:13
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LIFE (Billie Davies)
Make a major deal over what others call something minor
If a minor something is a major deal to you
Hear and question everything
Don’t worry about what others think
Mistakes do not exist
Only lessons to learn
Have no fear to live
Don’t be afraid to be you
Learn always and have lots of adventures
Be aware and be fair
Have no fear to Iive life passionately
Life is one big adventure
Don’t ever be ashamed and dare to be proud
Proud of who you are
Dare to persist in your daring
Dare to feed babies who have no food
Dare to house people that must live in the street
Dare to find solutions where there are none
Dare to be you
Learn always and have lots of adventures
Be aware and be fair
Have no fear to live life passionately
Life is one big adventure
“The aim of life is to live
And to live means to be aware
Joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware” (Henry Miller)
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Happiness
07:14
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HAPPINESS (Billie Davies)
Choose what you do based on what you love
Choose your friends based on affection
Take nothing for granted and learn to trust
Most people are born good
Choose to be happy
Fight for what you want
And make sure you know what you want
Travel the world
Eat chocolate for breakfast
Have an ice cream dinner
You need to know who you are
Choose to be happy
Persist in choosing to be you, in choosing to be different
By listening to your heart and feeling your soul
Learn who you are
Choose to do nothing if there is no purpose
Choose to own your own life
You need too know who you are
Choose to be happy
“Take the world as you find it
Make the best of the present moment
laugh at Fortune generous or unkind
live for love and art in bold simplicity and naturalness,
There is no sin but that of Hypocrisy.” (Gelett Burgess)
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Love
07:15
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LOVE (Billie Davies)
I Love You, I Love You, I Love You
“Press my breasts,
Part the veil of mystery,
A flower blooms there,
Crimson and fragrant.
You left impressions unforgettable
and when I view our moon
your image surfaces
and that love seems forever.” (Saigyo 1118-1190)
Fall in love as much as you can
Love unconditionally
True love has no contracts
Feel love deeply
The grass will always seem greener on the other side
Feel love deeply
Your heart is my heart
Feel love deeply
Kiss a lot
Aphrodite is watching
I Love You, I Love You, I Love You
“If you fall in love, LOVE.
Remember that there isn’t only one love of your life, but several.
Shut off the TV, shut down your cell-phone, switch on the light and be with them, talk to them or sit quietly, but be with them…”
(From the letter Kasja wrote to Joy in “30 degrees in February”)
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Freedom
16:47
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FREEDOM (Billie Davies)
Freedom
From hoping for heaven and fearing hell
Mother nature gives me everything
I love her well
Don’t turn me from my destiny
Mother nature is enough for me
I will not leave her but come back
I strongly believe
I will always be free
To be here
Self-creation
Individuality
Freedom
Self-realization
Freedom
Life keeps on going on and on
Like seeds once sown grow in the spring again
And blossom in that warm summer rain
But just in case
One life is all I get to live
And energy comes only once to me
I’ll live it full of joy and passion and free
Experimentation
Freedom
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Art
13:37
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ART (Billie Davies)
Express yourself
Uniquely
From your heart and soul
As an individual
Bring to your environment
A different perspective
From what commonly is known
To be life
Express yourself
Open yourself to creative energy
Consciously
Let others experience
Your feelings expressed
Uniquely individually spontaneously
Express yourself
“One has to give that justice to art,
That it brings proof that nothing functions.
It establishes that there is no use,
Not for the universe,
Not for religion.
It's flagrant uselessness makes one discover
That something,
Of which no-one gave much thought,
Suddenly becomes essential.”
(Francois Jaqmin - translated from French by Billie Davies)
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Rhythm
14:45
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RHYTHM (Billie Davies)
Rhythm is the segmented duration of
Energy
Rhythm is the architecture of
Universal Energy
One, two, three, four
Art is not eternal
Science is not eternal
Religion is not eternal
Politics and governments are not eternal
Only energy is eternal
Rhythm is to infinity what the butterfly is to zero
It is the rhythm of our hearts
It is the rhythm of Mother Nature
Everything moves in its own rhythm
Everything lives in its own rhythm
Everything changes in its own rhythm
The Milky Way, the sun, the moon, the earth
Water, air, plants, trees, birds, fishes, humans, cats and dogs
This rhythm is the rhythm of the universe
It is the rhythm of our hearts
It is the rhythm of Mother Nature
Rhythm is the segmented duration of
Energy
Rhythm is the architecture of
Universal Energy
One, two, three, four
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BILLIE DAVIES West Palm Beach, Florida
Billie Davies is a drummer and a composer best known for her free, instinctively avant-garde compositions since the mid- nineties, and her improvisational drumming techniques she has performed in Europe and in the US. All of her music is improvisational, a conversation between musicians, inspired by a certain feeling, thought or perspective that is being communicated to an audience. ... more
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