Resiliency Radio – Giving the Gift of Resiliency
February 15, 2010 by Lilly
Filed under Emotional Health, Healing Support, Health
Inspirational stories of empowerment and overcoming adversity. Our audience includes veterans, their families, and all people who are interested in healing and finding balance during stressful times.
Resiliency Radio is a program of the Raven Drum Foundation, a nonprofit founded in 2001 by Rick Allen, drummer for Def Leppard, and Lauren Monroe, MA, CMT. Raven Drum’s mission is to serve, educate and empower veterans and people in crisis. The Veteran Resiliency Project is the foundation’s primary program and focuses on veterans and their families. This program guides participants and provides somatic and integrative tools that bring body and mind to a place of rest and balance. The foundation engages music as a tool for healing allowing participants to use rhythm as a form of release, an avenue for empowerment and a means to connect to others. This exciting new radio show taps into the very heart of Raven Drum allowing the message of resiliency to reach far and wide.
VISIT RAVEN DRUM @
www.twitter.com/RavenDrum
www.ravendrumfoundation.org
About The Hosts
RICK ALLEN
Rick Allen, Co Founder The Raven Drum Foundation Rick became the drummer for Def Leppard at 15. At the height of worldwide fame in 1984, he had a car accident that changed his life. Rick lost an arm, but turned personal tragedy into spiritual transformation and continued his musical career over the past 10 years Rick has reached out to Teenage Cancer Patients, Children with Special Needs, At Risk Youth in crisis, Families of Domestic Violence and Veterans who have served in Vietnam, Desert Storm, Iraq and Afghanistan continues his work with others through RDF’s Veteran’s Resiliency Project.
VISIT RICK @
www.twitter.com/RickAllenLive
www.stikrick.com
LAUREN MONROE
Lauren Monroe M.A. C.M.T., Co Founder, The Raven Drum Foundation
Lauren has been a practitioner / teacher of energy healing and massage therapy since 1992. Her background includes specialized work with incarcerated teens, hospice care, and crisis healing. Also a singer songwriter, Her work is an integrative approach to wellness that combines music, massage therapy &energy medicine techniques. She is the creator of RDF’s Veteran’s Resiliency Project and the Resiliency Radio Show.
VISIT LAUREN @
www.twitter.com/LMBLAZE
www.laurenmonroe.com
She

She may be the face I can’t forget
The trace of pleasure or regret
Maybe my treasure or the price I have to pay
She may be the song that summer sings
May be the chill that autumn brings
May be a hundred different things
Within the measure of a day
She may be the beauty or the beast
May be the famine or the feast
May turn each day into a Heaven or a Hell
She may be the mirror of my dreams
A smile reflected in a stream
She may not be what she may seem
Inside her shell….
She maybe the reason I survive
The why and wherefore I’m alive
The one I care for through the rough and ready years
Me, I’ll take the laughter and her tears
And make them all my souvenirs
For where she goes I’ve got to be
The meaning of my life is
She …
Elvis Costello Lyrics – She
Too Many Tears
February 21, 2009 by Lilly
Filed under Inspiration, Music
Too Many Tears – a song written especially for the Australia Bushfire Appeal. I do hope you’ll have a look and listen to the video which I also posted below, it’s really quite touching and beautiful
I’m LillyAnn Lewsey in Second Life and am joined with my good friend RebelMum Slade in SL, (and all of my great friends from that area!) in the efforts supporting the Australia Bushfire Appeal.
A little history:
Experiment Rhode and Mari Upshaw are writing partners for Metaverse Music and write under the team name of “music desperados”; they are both musicians and passionate about Music; Ex is from Sydney Australia and Mari is from Houston, Texas.
Ex is 1/3 of the Australian band Somerset, Oh & Rhode who are making the transition from RL into SL;
Mari is also the curator of Angel Dorei Musuem in Second Life. The current Exhibition is the Art of Australia which opened on January 26, Australia Day showing the art of 15 artists from all over Australia…and then.. on the weekend of 7th/8th of February, Victoria Australia went up in flames…Mari and Ex are friends of Australian musician Brian Henderson Ward in SL Jackdog Snook, and heard Jack talk about the devastation around Melbourne at one of Jack’s SL concerts. Mari asked Ex if he would like to write a song about the horrific fires and dedicated to the resilient spirit of Australians. So Ex and Mari wrote the lyrics to “Too Many Tears” and sent them on to Ex’s band mate Brigth Oh. Bright was so excited about the possibility of the song and the lyrics, he started writing music and also contributed the “middle eight” lyrics. He sang the song and wrote and recorded the music.
The result is the song “Too Many Tears” which had its debut at the Bushfire Benefit held at Angel Dorei Museum on Sunday, February 15th. 125,000L was raised at the benefit with proceeds dedicated to RedCross Australia, with the support of 12 SL musicians who gave their time and talent toward the effort (Angel Dorei Benefit Musicians – Joaquin Gustav, Jubal Enyo, Mash Rhode, Russell Eponym, MichelleD Ecksol, Charles Somerset, Quinton Whitman, Senjata Witt, FrankLee Anatra, Cylindrian Rutabaga, Jessy Sommer and Jackdog Snook. Ex, Mari and Bright are hoping they can have “Too Many Tears” available for sale with all proceeds going to the Bushfire Appeal.
During the past week music events in the online world of SecondLife have raised over $3000US for the Australian Red Cross Bushfire appeal – or over 840,000 in game Linden dollars!
The only good that can come In the time of horrific tragedy that none of us can possibly understand, is the chance for those of us left behind to show the true spirit of compassion, courage and support..the bush fires that have recently devastated Victoria Australia have galvanized people all over the world to act and show support.. it is in that spirit that the song “Too Many Tears” was written and it is offered now to remember those whose lives were lost but also to celebrate the resilient spirit of Australia.
Too Many Tears – a song for the Australia Bushfire Appeal
by: written by David Llewellyn, Ian MacCarthy and Diane Myers
link to two many tears:
http://www.reverbnation.com/tunepak/1170008
http://www.box.net/shared/gfdq1v61t1





