I R W I N   F R I E D M A N  •  We Are All One Music

Updated February 2, 2010 Ground Hog Day and Candlemas Day February 2 is half way between the winter solstice and the vernal equinox. It is also 40 days after Christmas. I am not sure what the ground hog really thinks about this day! If we lived back in europe many centuries ago, it is still cold and the days are short, but getting longer. We are all hoping for a quick warm up so we can plant our crops. After all, there aren't any supermarkets yet. We would be very tuned into nature and lookng for any sign of spring. We probably would have rituals, prayers and superstitions that go along with this day. So let us hope that the weather turns warm so we can plant our crops that now, not ony feed the local people, but also feed the world. WORKS CONTINUES ON THE NEW LOOK FOR THIS WEB SITE The work continues on a new look to this web site. I will be offering free song downloads and articles on education and children's music. There will be songs for singing with young children as well as songs about social problems and nature. I also want to share my song writing process and how other people create songs. It now appears that this site will be up and running in the new format by end of February 2010. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Book an Event or schedule Irwin singing at your school.   THIS WEEK'S BLOG: What does it mean, to go inside yourself for the answers? WELCOME to.... We Are All One Music! ENVIRONMENTAL SONGS, EARTH SONGS AND NATURE SONGS BY IRWIN FRIEDMAN FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS OF ALL AGES! LISTEN AND SING ALONG WITH SONGS OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND NATURE THAT EXPRESS THE WONDER AND MYSTERY OF OUR NATURAL WORLD AS WELL AS EXPLORE THE INCREDIBLE WORLD INSIDE EACH OF US. At We Are All One Music you will find uplifting songs about the joy of life and how we are really all one. We are all one means that we are human beings living together on this planet, not separate from the rest of life nor each other. The first CD called "Singing the Earth" is available now. This coming year I am planning to produce two more CD's. You will hear songs about social issues, nature and the environment and you will listen to songs that invite you to go inside yourself and question everything that we do as individuals and as a human society. After all, if we are going to change the direction the world is heading, surely it must start from the source which is each of us. The world being a reflection of each one of us means that we are responsible for everything that is going on everywhere. These songs transcend my efforts to label them. I sing these songs to young children as well as to adults and it seems that every age appreciates them and enjoys listening. For now, these songs are in these categories, environmental songs, nature songs, earth songs and children's songs. My name is Irwin Friedman and I have been composing and singing to young people for over 25 years. I hope you find these songs uplifting and fun to sing. Book an Event or schedule Irwin singing at your school. Contact Irwin at irwin@weareallonemusic.com Read my blog!   We Are All One Music

Irwin singing happily in front of a live oak. Listen carefully, can you hear the cicadas singing along?   Observing the Suwannee River between branches. I have composed several of my songs sitting on the banks of this river. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Quote from Krishnamurti online Only Observation Questioner: You tell us to observe our actions in daily life but what is the entity that decides what to observe and when? Who decides if one should observe? Krishnamurti: Do you decide to observe? Or do you merely observe? Do you decide and say, `I am going to observe and learn'? For then there is the question: `Who is deciding?' Is it will that says, `I must'? And when it fails, it chastises itself further and says, `I must, must, must; in that there is conflict; therefore the state of mind that has decided to observe is not observation at all. You are walking down the road, somebody passes you by, you observe and you may say to yourself, `How ugly he is; how he smells; I wish he would not do this or that'. You are aware of your responses to that passer-by, you are aware that you are judging, condemning or justifying; you are observing. You do not say, `I must not judge, I must not justify'. In being aware of your responses, there is no decision at all. You see somebody who insulted you yesterday. Immediately all your hackles are up, you become nervous or anxious, you begin to dislike; be aware of your dislike, be aware of all that, do not `decide' to be aware. Observe, and in that observation there is neither the `observer' nor the `observed' - there is only observation taking place. The `observer' exists only when you accumulate in the observation; when you say, `He is my friend because he has flattered me', or, `He is not my friend, because he has said something ugly about me, or something true which I do not like,. That is accumulation through observation and that accumulation is the observer. When you observe without accumulation, then there is no judgement. You can do this all the time; in that observation naturally certain definite decisions are natural results, not decisions made by the observer who has accumulated. J. Krishnamurti 5th Public Talk Saanen 26th July 1970