Love versus Love

I couple weeks ago I went to see a new-to-me band, Loop!Station, a performance of their new album, Love versus Love.

An impassioned women singing, Robin Coomer, and an impassioned man playing cello, Sam Bass. All live, they loop their tracks, layering them, overlapping them, singing along with themselves, creating a gorgeous blast of intoxicating music.

When I walked in to the venue, they were already playing, and I was nearly knocked over by a gorgeous tsunami of sensuous, sonorous sound. I continued to weep for the rest of the hour's performance.

You have to check them out. If you don't know where to start, try "The Last Time" from their album, "Balance on What."

http://www.loopthis.com/
http://cdbaby.com/cd/loopstation1

And for their glorious, powerful, exalted new CD, "Love versus Love," you'll have to wait as patiently as me. Do get on their mailing list. Your ears and heart will never be loved so well.

"Love versus Love," Robin says. "Which will win?"

Loving, opening to love, devoting our lives and selves to love - is not always a dance with the daisies.

Love is the greatest game there is. 99.9% of humans make a conscious or unconscious choice that to love, fully and openly, is too painful, too vulnerable, too unpredictable.

It's true. It can be.

Lovers, the 1% of 1%, we are courageous, crazy, and somehow the most sane. It takes a great roar of YES to life. It's easier to hide, to numb out, to say NO to life.

The reward of loving - ourselves, another, this chaotic life - is often blown-open hearts, lives in cinders, work charred and scarred.

And the rewards are also heaven on earth: what comes from living with arms thrown wide, head tossed back, open, open, open, truly seeing and being truly seen. The wash of creative fire that comes only of the inclusive embrace our YES as opposed to the painful pushing away of our NO.


“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.”

C.S. Lewis


Love versus Love. Which will win?