My New Album Gravity Man! Love Songs and Songs About Love.

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I’m so thrilled to release my fourth album of original songs. Gravity Man is an offering of love songs and songs about love that weaves joy, heartbreak, sorrow and humor into soulfully crafted songs in the americana style with flavors of folk, funk, blues, torch-style jazz, swing, rock, pop, celtic, psychedelic and dixieland. These are stories of loved fulfilled, unrequited love, self-love, family love, and the permutations of love lost and gained. Let your heart be moved and your feet dance as you take this journey through love’s unpredictable twists and turns.

Please check the new album and enjoy listening:
On my website https://www.kathleendunbarmusic.com/store
Or on bandcamp: https://kathleendunbar.bandcamp.com/album/gravity-man

Blue Lilah–People are listening in 2022!

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Yeah! These are the 2022 stats for my award-winning Blue Lilah trance-ambient album on Spotify. All-time streams on Spotify are over 22,000! Thanks and love everyone for listening! Want to support me by listening and downloading from my website–great!–here’s the link: https://bluelilah.com/store

trancemusic #ambientmusic #journeymusic #shamanichealing #medicinemusic

Dyslexics rock. Big time. Seriously.

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There is life beyond School (aka Hell) and you have survived teachers, bullies, and the conventional education system. The world is your oyster now! You have gifts you don’t even know about because no one helped you discover them, but they are there! You rock. Big time. Seriously. Trust yourself and your intuition and live big. 

Learn more about what dyslexia and the amazing gifts that come with the challenges here: https://dyslexicselfesteem.com

Dogs Don’t Care

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Dogs Don’t Care

Dogs as a whole
don’t care what they look like
(except perhaps for poodles). 
Let yourself find that dignity
and freedom
that creatures know
—let the sense of you being you
in the moment
just as you are
become a little fuller.
Your body will thank you
(it already knows how
and will be glad you listened).
Your heart will
relax—finally!
The miracle is You—
beauteous, unique,
sometimes with fleas,
alive and here.
Don’t let the thoughts
that compare and criticize you
be the only show in town.
They never took into account
the mystery that is you.
Be as dog, or horse,
mouse
or walrus—trust yourself
howl wildly, run, snort
play and growl
taste and smell
sing and dance
and most of all be here.
The body that you were given
is exquisite.
Your mind is a gem
unique unto itself.
Your heart is waiting for you
to love yourself.
You are amazing.

© Kathleen Dunbar 2020

Photo by Kathleen Dunbar.

Please check our our website Dyslexic Self Esteem at: https://dyslexicselfesteem.com

#dyslexia#dyslexic#dyslexics#dyslexicselfesteem
#dyslexicthinking#dyslexicandproud
#learningdifferences#neurodiversity
#dyslexicstrengths#dyslexicpeople#trueself
#loveyourself#dogs

Dyslexics You Are The Quintessential Outside-The-Box Thinkers!

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Dyslexics, you have the ability to save the world because you are such fantastic problem solvers and you are the quintessential outside-the-box thinkers! Trust yourself, your intuition and your gifts! You are the super humans of our time! Believe in yourself and you will be unstoppable!

Learn more about dyslexia—gifts and challenges and support for your awesomeness—here: dyslexicselfesteem.com

My album Medicine Songs Wins TWO AWARDS in the 2020 Just Plain Folks Music Awards!

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My ambient, trance, journey music project—my CD entitled Medicine Songs by my shaman-singer pseudonym Blue Lilah has won TWO awards in the 2020 Just Plain Folks Music Awards!   

Brian Whitney, CEO and Founder of Just Plain Folks, writes of the nomination, “It’s a big deal: 17K albums and 240K songs were entered for the current awards, which cover the expanse of time since the last awards in 2009.”

  • 3rd Place for Best World Music Album is Blue Lilah’s album Medicine Songs by Kathleen Dunbar and Gawain Mathews. TO LISTEN TO THE MEDICINE SONGS ALBUM and BUY IT click: https://bluelilah.com/store
  • 2nd Place for Best World Music Song is the song Bleyso from Blue Lilah’s album Medicine Songs by Kathleen Dunbar and Gawain Mathews. To LISTEN TO AND BUY BLEYSO click: Listen to Bleyso

Blue Lilah’s music is my offering to you to celebrate yourself in the dance that is the connection of all life. It is a gifting of my music, voice, energy, and sounds for your pleasure. It is my invitation to you, my listeners, to dive into a healing journey. Please use it in whatever forms “move” you!—Dance, meditation, journeying, relaxation, movement exploration, yoga, birthing, healing! Who is Blue Lilah? Imagine being taken on a journey in the dream language of a medicine woman, with luscious percussion, backwards guitar, a whale’s voice, a thunderstorm . . . and that’s just the first song!

Blue Lilah’s website is bluelilah.com

Photos by Tamarind Free Jones

Creativity Takes Courage

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You are amazing! Let yourself be here! Bring it! 

There’s only one you! You and your uniqueness add something to this world that no one else can! You make the world a better place by being truly you! Trust your intuition, your passion, your expression! Whatever it is that you create—let it flow! Art, gardening, a business, supporting a child, cooking, athletics, writing, singing, politics, dancing, healing—let your vision enhance the world. 

Courage comes in when we allow ourselves to trust our unique vision. And when we make time for ourselves to follow our vision into expression. 

Here’s a piece of creative “discipline”—we need leisure in order to create. Staring at the café ceiling for an hour with no demands allows the right brain time to make connections and come up with ideas that it otherwise wouldn’t have time for. This is scientific fact! The “discipline” comes when you schedule this time for yourself and stick by it. I know! I’m working on my fifth album and my novel. Find my music projects here—I’m up for awards for both projects.
kathleendunbar.com
bluelilah.com

there is a small moment

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there is a small moment 
© by Kathleen Dunbar 

there is a small moment 
when the still air 
touches the bird’s breast 
and nothing else exists for her 
more important 
than being alive 
to the invisible warmth 
that is the breath 
of gardens 
long trees 
and sunwarmed stone 

all that is alive has 
risen to meet her 
in the crystal 
animal of the air 
that waits 
next to her 
on her high branch 

she—who is made 
to sing— 
allows the wind 
when it begins to stir 
to touch her soft body 
where her 
invisible voice lives 
and she begins 
to feel called 
exquisitely 
to return the vitalness 
and press 
of garden 
and tree 
and stone 
in the poured 
silver of her song 

there is nothing 
compared to 
her joy when the wind 
moves into her
and her exquisite 
allowing 
of the taking 
of her singing body 

this is the reason 
she was given a voice 

so 
of course 
she tips 
and falls 
and flies 

Dogs Don’t Care

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Dogs Don’t Care
by Kathleen Dunbar

Dogs as a whole
don’t care what they look like
(except perhaps for poodles).
Let yourself find that dignity
and freedom
that creatures know
—let the sense of you being you
in the moment
just as you are
become a little fuller.
Your body will thank you
(it already knows how
and will be glad you listened).
Your heart will
relax—finally!
The miracle is You—
beauteous, unique,
sometimes with fleas,
alive and here.
Don’t let the thoughts
that compare and criticize you
be the only show in town.
They never took into account
the mystery that is you.
Be as dog, or horse,
mouse
or walrus—
trust yourself
howl wildly, run, snort
play and growl
taste and smell
sing and dance
and most of all be here.
The body that you were given
is exquisite.
Your heart is waiting for you
to love yourself.
You are amazing.

© Kathleen Dunbar 2020