INVITATION - (no intro) A song about Community Restoration

INVITATION - a song about Community, Written and performed by Randy Weeks. Cincinnati, Ohio

I edited this to cut the spoken intro and leave just the song.
If you'd like to watch the longer version, it's here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDe1Jvahre4

MP3 of studio recording available at
http://randyweeks.posterous.com/invitation-a-song-about-awakening-community

Heartfelt thanks to Peter Block, John McKnight, Margaret Wheatley and all my friends in the Cincinnati A Small Group community. www.asmallgroup.net.




Invitation
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This is the Invitation
To a new conversation
Of depth over speed
Of gift over need
A new Listening...

The structure of how we gather
Speaks of what really matters
Telling a new
Story of who
We are to each other


This is the Invitation
Community's Restoration
By just showing up
We're gifted enough
To birth a new world

Though we don't know
what it will look like
We're feeling that world's alive
Like it's ready to bloom
Here in this room
The seeds in each life

So Community's New Frontier
Is finding all that we need, right here
To weave a rich, local life
Into a tapestry lined
With the connections we share

This is the invitation
To join a celebration
Of neighbors & friends
Connecting again
Creating the new...

Of neighbors & friends
Connecting again
Creating the new

My neighbors & friends
I'm glad to come in
And be here
With you.


Words & Music by Randy Weeks
Randy@weeks.org April-July 2009

Recorded 7-27-09 at Monastery Studio, Cincinnati, OH
Production & Engineering: Ric Hordinski
Acoustic Guitar & Vocal: Randy Weeks
Electric Guitars & Bass: Ric Hordinski
Drums: Josh Seurkamp

Category:

Music

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• Community
• Randy Weeks
• weeks
• org
• Peter Block
• A Small Group
• ASG
• asmallgroup.net
• INVITATION
• Community Restoration
• Transition