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Take it. You’ve Got This. | Video post

By: Naomi Bird November 16, 2019 Recordings, Saturday SongNotes, Song Notesfaith, flute, harvest, health, music, piano, tenorLeave a Comment

We can put in all the right seeds, all the time, and wait, and get ready to harvest the life we want, but ultimately, God is in control

A Time for Everything

By: Naomi Bird November 16, 2019November 16, 2019 Recordings, Saturday SongNotesecclesiastes, faith, farming, harvest, hymns, Mark Hayes, music, SongNotes from the BirdsLeave a Comment

‘harvest’ from a farmer’s perspective is intense. There is a specific time to do it. It’s urgent. It’s tiring.
Everything is at stake if it doesn’t happen.

Through the pain to harvest

By: Naomi Bird November 1, 2019November 2, 2019 Monthly Themes, Song Notesabundance, Art, entertainment, gardening, harvest, music, Nature, perseverence, sacred musci, SongNotes from the Birds, writingLeave a Comment

This month, in our region of the world (Minnesota, USA), we are turning the corner into the lower temps of autumn. For the Bird home this means three things:

Three Lessons from hot tea and a WWI song |”Tea for Two”

Choosing to feature this song now was something we arrived at because of trying to celebrate Nathan’s and my mutual love of tea. As such, it’s only fitting that this song uses tea as the axis around which a couple can celebrate their mutual love of one other.

On Caring to Write Real Paper Notes | “I Could Write a Book”

By: Naomi Bird October 12, 2019 Saturday SongNotes, Song NotesArt, Autumn, books, faith, jazz, music, Nature, paper, publishing, SongNotes from the Birds, writingLeave a Comment

A physical thing – a piece of paper, a journal, a letter, a book – shows a special kind of care.

Learning to see the beautiful changes that come from the pain of lost love | Lessons from Autumn Leaves

By: Naomi Bird October 5, 2019October 5, 2019 Saturday SongNotesArt, Autumn, Autumn Leaves, faith, heartache, jazz, music, Nature, relationships1 Comment

That girl might blame herself for wasting time and hurting friends and being weird and starting marriage off with some major baggage. It’s easy to assume that, when changing for the better, sooner is better. It is the long summer of green that ripens us to thrill as the fall colors reveal themselves.

You Can Do Anything Better at the State Fair: a Duelling Duet Debut

By: Naomi Bird September 3, 2019 Collaboration, Recordings, Song Notesdigital music subscriptions gifts, History of the state fair, Minnesota musicians, Twin cities recording artists, twin cities singers, Twin cities tenor for hire, writing about songsLeave a Comment

Originally published via email on August 3, 2019 It’s August in Minnesota. Yellow tassels of corn are glistening back at the sunrise. White and blue and grey tents form a poky patchwork over the vegetable stands at urban farmers’ markets. Something just shifted in the air and the angle of the sun to signal that…

Have you heard? N&N concerts coming up!

By: Naomi Bird August 22, 2019August 22, 2019 Arts in Our Community, Concertizing, EventsBlaine, entertainment, Events, Excelsior, grandparents gifts, house concerts, Minnesota, piano and voice, st. Paul, Twin cities concerts, twin cities musicLeave a Comment

Sept 14, 15, 21 in Blaine, Excelsior, and St. Paul, MN

October SongNotes Theme Reveal

By: Naomi Bird October 4, 2019

Monthly Themes, Song NotesArt, Autumn, entertainment, music, Nature, SongNotes from the BirdsLeave a Comment

This month, in our region of the world (Minnesota, USA), we are turning the corner into the lower temps of autumn. For the Bird home this means three things:

Thankful to Give | cover of Josh Groban’s “Thankful”|

By: Nathan Bird November 23, 2019

Recordings, Saturday SongNotes, Song Notesfaith, Josh Groban, miracles, music, Thankful, ThanksgivingLeave a Comment

It’s very easy to – even in this season of celebrating abundance and bounty – to feel intensely Not Enough….

Take it. You’ve Got This. | Video post

By: Naomi Bird November 16, 2019

Recordings, Saturday SongNotes, Song Notesfaith, flute, harvest, health, music, piano, tenorLeave a Comment

We can put in all the right seeds, all the time, and wait, and get ready to harvest the life we want, but ultimately, God is in control

What should we care about some old songs by slaves?

By: Naomi Bird November 16, 2019

Recordings, Saturday SongNotes, Song NotesAfrican American History, African American music, African-American spirituals, black history, music, slaves, tenorLeave a Comment

What do you think harvest season was like for people enslaved for the purpose of working the land?