Patty Ann Smith's Creative Expressions

The Music Of My Life

Music is essential to life because it is like Breathing. It's rhythmic, it's Melodic, it's Harmonious Sound... even if it can't be heard. It is in all life throughout the cosmos. If we stray too far from that, we die. If you understand this you can sense music everywhere. You can sense rhythms, melodies and harmonies in pleasant conversations, in beautiful works of art, in breathtaking natural wonders, in smiles and laughter. The Persian Poet Hafiz wrote..."All movement is a wondrous language, and Music... such exquisite wild Music"!

I sing and play the guitar. My music is the expression of the nature in me... and all the encoding of my family, my country, my heritage, my childhood and my joys and sorrows. When I can say to myself I am not the performer, the physical body, but I am the music the spirit... then is when I am transcended to another place and time where fear does not exist... only the music. If worry and ego enters the picture, I am only in the finite world and have forsaken the bliss of the infinite... even if it's only temporally.

Patty Ann Smith

from Patty

I am a singer and a songwriter, and I take my role as a planetary citizen very seriously. I am passionate about the breathtaking beauty of our earth and it's inhabitants. From the time I was a child, I've always been aware of the interconnectedness of all things. I have studied Native American Medicine and other indigenous peoples methods of healing, both inside and outside university classrooms. I am, also, a student of life. And, through the many experiences I've had, several have taught me very valuable lessons . On several occasions, I've had the unique opportunity to become a guide and teacher to others because of what I've learned. In 1990, I facilitated Earth Day Activities at a State Univeristy Of New York Campus.

Even though I've performed music for both small and large audiences, at this point in time... my inspirations, ideas, and energy are being spent almost exclusively on my concerns about the survival of the people, plants and animals of this planet. Now... I am focusing my music on helping others become more aware of Nature and the Beauty of Our Earth.

Be Strong, Be Well ~ Patty

Creativity... A Stolen Right Of Life

We all come into this life with an immediate abundance of ability to be the "Next Big Thing" in any area of life we should so desire to explore. We are born into the Natural World of Creativity... with all the connections in place, like those of the processors and programs of a brand new computer, just waiting to be presented with ideas and images from the outside that will take us on an inner journey of imagination to discover who we really are and were meant to become to the world. Then... it starts to happen... The Shut Down, like perhaps a computer virus that takes over from the outside of our true self... and slowly... bit by bit... piece by piece blocks, controls and destroys all the great things we could have uncovered and offered to the rest of the world.

It seems almost deliberate, as if those around us in our lives... from family, friends, teachers and later others in our working environment... everyone, everywhere has taken an oath based on perhaps the fear of change, a pledge to stop us from the uniqueness of ourselves. It's as if they want us to follow a specific road map... or guidance system that "keeps them safe from us". Why is this... What is it that they are really so in fear of... is the fear really based on their concern that we will be better off by complying, or that they will be less threatened. This is the question and a dilemma for ourselves as to how we can not be infected by this virus of insecurity when they are the carriers of it. It seems to be their sole purpose only is to take over our lives, destroy our potential of individuality... and protect themselves from the fear of any type of change. Just like the pathology of any infectious disease, or a computer virus... We Are Gradually Taken Over To Become "THEM", and serve only their wants and needs. How can we protect ourselves, how can we immunize our creative mind to this epidemic of fears that is focused on us so that to comply and do only what the program allows.

Have we forgotten... We Are The Creators... We Are Man! Creativity is in our nature and in our hands, and has been since the dawn of mankind. We are the only species of animal on the planet that continuously pours out new ideas every second of every day, and has been doing so for as long as any historic records have been kept... and even far beyond that into the deepest past of pre-history. Our very essence is Creativity and , we were put here, placed here... or whatever to continuously bring about Perpetual Change. If we have any purpose in life at all it is that, to create and move the world into the future with our ideas and what we make and bring into reality. Why are people so determined to slow things down to a halt, to cause things to stop... or to say in other way... To Imitate Death, that condition where there is no movement.

In my art... music, there has to be movement... music is like a living organism at it's best... ever changing, twisting stretching and exploring new worlds of sound. Music is non-static design, it is A Sound Sculpture in Sound, always In Motion. Music moves like all healthy living things... not trapped, inhibited, restricted or enslaved to any outside force... Not Dead. Music is A Pure, Living... Creative Flow of Energy, unfolding before our ears... as if they were eyes. This is what has made music a very special and important part of our lives... it is a pattern or blueprint of life itself. Like DNA music shapes our lives mysteriously in ways we cannot even begin to know. Music takes on a journey to our own soul, a place we seldom can visit without such a guide, a guide to a part of our self we cannot experience any other way.

Craig Smith