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Another Freedon We Cherish....to worship, or not
Please enjoy this guest blog posted to my Virginia Beauty blog. Happy Independence Month! How Do I Love Thee? Another...
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A Sense of Place and "wisdom of one place"
The following article by Fred First captures much of my own concern about our current lack of knowledge about what lives and breathes around us. Thank you, Fred, for letting me share your work.Wisdom...
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WHY is there a Reggae song for kids about Local Foods and Local Economy on A...
Lettering by Todd PriceA Sense of Place, by Earth Mama1. Because Kids are our future and our responsibility. (And they are fun to sing with and make great volunteers at my shows!) 2. Cause kids are so...
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All That's Gold, A Sense of Place, track 5
Three of the songs on A Sense of Place were recorded at Watershed Recording in Nashville and feature a cast of mighty fine pickers I don't get to work with often. Right is Bryan Sutton, IBMA multiyear...
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Go Green Soup for Winter!
Local and homegrown garden fare can be a rich source of flavor and nutrition all year long if stored properly. But coming up with fresh ideas and getting past the same old standard preparations we are...
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11 Ideas to Honor Earth for Earth Day
Earth Mama’s Random 10 11 Ways To Honor Earth!1. Resist the urge to buy the latest high tech coffee making device, especially if each cup results in single use disposable plastic trash. So many ways...
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Midsummer Moon -- Dancing Through Time and Space, Celebrating Thomas Berry’s...
Sometimes the creative life is a grind, sometimes it is grand. Recently one of those grand things happened that gives me a big thrill just to have my songs included. Here’s the story:photo from...
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World Water Day 2015
This photo from a recent trip to California captures an image of a state of which more than 80% is in severe drought. We saw at least 3 stranded boats in former ponds, lakes or river beds. Please...
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I can almost see Climate Change Progress from here...
What is the POBama Effect?Yay, Obama for rejecting Keystone XL—I am counting on this to slow down the tar sands devastation.And bless this Rock Star Pope Francis on Climate Action to get the...
View ArticleSuggestions for a soundtrack to Lenten reflections - National Catholic Reporter
I am the only person I know who schleps a guitar to her book club.Several years ago, when our Oakland, Calif., group dove into Sacred Heart Missionary Fr. Diarmuid O’Murchu’s 2002 book Evolutionary...
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Standing on the Shoulders
This blog was originally posted on the Children's Music Network blog in March of 2015. Let's Celebrate! Thanks CMN!STANDING ON THE SHOULDERSby Joyce Johnson RouseMarch is Women’s History month, and...
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The Blue Ridge Parkway-A Ribbon of Stone
Come Drive this Ribbon of BeautyOne day as I drove a section the Blue Ridge Parkway, I noted migrating birds and imagined what the Parkway must look like to them, flying high above our terrain. I could...
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If You Need a Chair— Act Locally for stronger communities
IF YOU NEED A CHAIR BY JOYCE ROUSE Happy Chairmaker by Todd Price ©2013 Original oil painting. Used by permission. All rights reserved.This song is on my CD “A Sense of Place” by Earth Mama. One of...
View ArticleTree Polka
TREE POLKA! BY EARTH MAMA I wrote this after working with middle school kids who could only name 4 types of trees! There are over 60 tree species listed in this song, including the whole second verse...
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Well, This is Nice...Reviews!
Sometimes the Universe sees you need a little boost and just sends you a present. Don't you love it when that happens? Recently the Earth Mama CDs got these unexpected great reviews for Midwest Book...
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Where Did This Come From? Link to song
Where did that come from? Where has it been? In what other forms?I love to play “Where does this come from?”, picking any item in a room and tracing the path of a book or chair, iPad, or cookie all the...
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Stop the Pipelines, Stop the Maddness
With yet another major pipeline break this past week, it seemed timely to post this piece I wrote during the controversy fighting to stop the Keystone Pipeline. (Photos from Washington DC march to...
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Why Women Should Vote
Standing with the Courageous at Seneca Falls, NY Women's Rights National Historical ParkIn less than four years, we in the US will celebrate the centennial of women winning the right to vote. I wish...
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Part I - You MIGHT be an Environmentalist...
Holiday Wreath made from discarded sheet music.Part I --You MIGHT be an Environmentalist…...if you insist on your coffee being organic, shade grown (to protect the songbird habitat) and labeled “fair...
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Part II - You MIGHT be an Environmentalist.....
Part II - - You MIGHT Be an Environmentalist…..if you drive through the Cherokee National Forest and feel the spirit of ancient native people...if you attend a baby shower, see the mountains of plastic...
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2016 Holiday Newsletter and Specials
Dear Earthies,What can you be grateful for this year? YOU are in my gratitude count!As we all adjust to a rapidly changing world, we have an opportunity to support each other in many ways: Through...
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A Song of Peace
A SONG OF PEACE BY JEAN SIBELIUS ON THROWBACK THURSDAYThis unexpected, haunting version of the Song of Peace by Jean Sibelius from Earth Mama's Under the Rainbow CDVandana Shiva, Joyce Rouse (Earth...
View ArticleMusic City Arts Update: Appalachian Storyteller Richard Rouse Pens Book of...
Music City Arts Update: Appalachian Storyteller Richard Rouse Pens Book of...: By Chuck Whiting MCAU Editor INDEPENDENCE, Va. (June 2019) –A book of original short...
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