Nature Songs
Collection of songs by Ursula Seghezzi
Silent poetry that becomes audible
In times of solitude in nature or during seasonal rituals, little songs have come to me – gifts from another space, expressing humour, wisdom, tenderness, and aspects of being human.
The recordings were made at home, naked, vulnerable and with a trembling voice, often with a chuckle. The two-part songs were mostly sung with David. They should to sing along with and continue singing accessible. Anyone passing on the songs is welcome to include my name – or not.
The songs are available for free. The sheet music was created by Edith Birrer and Evelyn Hartmann. Those who wish to support the effort of creating the sheet music can make a Donation Transfer: IBAN DE82 4306 0967 2043 7648 01, Reference „Donation for publications“.
Current seasonal song
A cut to take,
a cut to give,
a cut to live through a winter.
1 August 2010 Ritual
Songs about nature and the seasons for singing along
Ursula Seghezzi's song collection has become extensive through the many nature rituals already experienced and has therefore been divided into eight seasonal rituals. Further down you will find more songs for vision quests, for Mother Earth and the circle of life, and my children's songs. Have fun browsing, listening, and singing along!
Festival of light rituals
1 February
Let's sing with the birds, let their song resound within us. Spring Woman moves across the land!
Let us sing with the birds, their song resound within us. Our land in new guise!
Let us build like they build a nest, for all that may come, gently with all that we have, for the new life to come – a nest!
February 2023
When bells ring across the land, the Spring woman breaks the winter's spell!
When bells ring in and out, they let the sun out!
Then she calls joyfully: Become! Wakens the sleeping seeds in the earth.
Then she calls joyfully: Dance! Dance your life's joy completely this summer.
So let's dance and sing along, and with her welcome in the young spring.
So we dance and join in, heralding spring with it:
Spring bells, spring bells, spring bells ding-a-ling-a-ling…
February 2020
I'm woken up, I put the pain away,
and feel the pure aliveness beneath.
I'm itching under my skin, it's burning under my nails,
to stretch me, to widen me, to show me to the world.
Festival of Lights, February 2015
Winter is over,
carried and nourished me,
whether I noticed or not,
It's all the same to him.
Light Festival Ritual, February 2018
I'm woken up, I put the pain away,
and feel the pure aliveness beneath.
I'm itching under my skin, it's burning under my nails,
to stretch me, to widen me, to show me to the world.
Festival of Lights, February 2015
The spark of hope is called,
hops and awakens life anew,
Now and now, now and now, now and now
Now!
Light Festival 2014
I am the tender, the fine, essentially the strong
The spring wind in the hair.
I am the delicate, the fine, at heart the strong
A spring child at heart.
I am the longing for life on this planet,
the freedom of the mind, the magic of the beginning.
In my heart, I hold the good intention
My most precious and pure pearl.
Light Festival 2013
Easter ritual
(21 March)
I should dare to dream dreams,
Don't lose heart, live your dreams.
Because dreams – dreams dare me!
Hey, whose dream am I?!?
21 March 2023
The cosmos folds in on itself
Through you in space and time.
In your eyes, a shimmer of eternity.
Your self naturally exists in the world.
Live your life to the full before it all falls apart.
March 2011
I sing my spring song for growth,
the becoming on earth.
I sing my spring song for growth,
My song has power.
I string the bow,
Shoot me into life,
Follow the trail of liveliness.
Spring Ritual, March 2016
Out in the field
I'm moving unprotected
Through space and through time.
My soul flies free
and I am ready
to dance in her name.
Ostara, 2010
Landscape and Soulscape
as if connected by mirrored skin.
Do the one and the other fit the image?,
Life finds an easy way.
Ostara, February 2015
I am free,
to experience my own story,
my own destiny
to interweave.
Light Festival, February 2018
Wedding ceremony
1 May
We are the men, we honour our strength.
We are the women, we honour our strength.
We are the Diverse, we honour our strength.
We are the men, we honour your strength.
We are the women, we honour your strength.
We are the diverse, we honour your strength.
Let's dance, let's sing,
to twine together.
Let's dance, let's sing,
Tender and wild at the same time
Midsummer 2012
Heaven and earth,
connect within me.
Circle of life,
give birth to myself.
Frau Holle May Ritual, May 2016
I sing for the oak,
Butterfly and sun,
I play for us humans
to life, to the celebration.
Forest Whispers Festival, July 2016
Midsummer rituals
21 June
(Referens)
I am me, but without you, I am not, because only we, we together, we form the circle.
Verses
We spin the wheel of aliveness, spinning and being spun.
We dance and are danced.
We sing and are sung.
We are silent, and shall remain silent…
Summer Solstice Ritual, June 2016
I am life, and I live,
amidst life that wants to live.
We are life, and we live,
amidst life that wants to live.
Freely following Albert Schweitzer, in August 2021
I am fertile,
when I connect.
I am fertile,
if I give myself away.
Midsummer Song, July 2016
Bass voice
Life fire, fire is everywhere,
Life fire, fire is everywhere.
Lead voice
Life's fire in the men, life's fire in the women,
Lifeforce in the children, a joy to behold.
Life fire in the trees, fire in every creature,
The spark of life in the flowers, fire, that is us.
Outvote
Little soul lights everywhere, dance their roundelay,
Soul lights, bright and clear, sing their song.
Midsummer song for Frau Holle Ritual, June 2017
I let go and I stretch out,
far beyond me.
I let go and I stretch out
far beyond me.
I'm flying with the bird.,
I dance with the wind.
I am silent with the trees,
I am a child of the earth.
Summer solstice, June 2016
Cutting rituals
1st August
A cut to take,
a cut to give,
a cut to live
A breath (alternatively: for a winter).
Reaper Festival 2010
Every favour is a ward
Every favour is a ward
Sharpen your sickle
Sharpen your mind.
Every favour is a ward
Every turning away is turning towards
Spot the common thread
Set the cut for life.
Cut Resistant 2013
I am love, overflowing.
Thus, the world changes its form.
She will be mild, wild, wise,
Intimately, and still and then old.
Reaper 2011
Black woman, harvester
come here, cut in two,
Clear and free, it changes life.
Black woman, reaper
comes near,
cuts in two, clear and free,
She will weave something new.
Cut-proof 2007
Autumn rituals
23 September
Will you be worthy of his strength?
Have you ever created what he means in your life?
23 September 2023
At the end of your life, I'll get you.,
At the end of your doing, I am there.
At the end of your will, I will lead you,
I'll take you home.
Autumn Ritual 2009
Autumn, autumn, it's autumn again.
The days are drawing to a close.
A good time to take stock of one's life,
and practicing letting go/dying to go.
Autumn 2019
The sun is rising and the fog is lying
in the fields, but quick, when she comes,
he disappears and a new day begins.
August 2019
I am a human being who has become human
with all that has been achieved in life.
I am a human becoming human.,
I remained imperfect in doing so.
I am Death and I am coming for you.
Perfect, that's just me.
I am death and so are you
I take you into my big heart.
Autumn Ritual 2011
I dare to look at the scales
where my life will be weighed.
If I dare, then I dare to ask the question,
I'm taken care of there.
You dare to look at the scales,
Where your life will be weighed.
And if you dare, then you also dare the question,
I'm telling you, you're in good hands.
I dared to look at the scales,
where my life was weighed,
I also dared to ask the question,
Now I know, I'm probably in good hands.
Autumn Ritual, September 2016
It's autumn and the acorns are falling,
Not just one, hundreds of thousands!
And they fall by day and night, plop, plop, plop,
Yes, the forest, it's letting go completely!
It is autumn and we humans too
We are allowed to break free from what was.
Let the fruits of thought fall
and the feelings from this year.
It is autumn and what has become
lies now as seed on Earth.
No tree, no person needs to do anything now.
It's becoming quiet. Time to rest.
Autumn Equinox 2024
It's raining in my heart
The Drops of Silver Stars
I weep, silently moved,
I felt my heart.
Autumn Heroes' Journey 2007
Thank you, thank you, thank you to Mother Earth!
Autumn Ritual 2022
Hello autumn, threshold time, from light down into darkness
Hello autumn, gate to the other world, the dress must come off, I want the heart to come out.
Autumn Heroes' Journey 2007
November rituals
1st November
Ferryman, ferryman, ferryman, ferry us over, over the river of life.
Ferryman, ferryman, ferryman take me over, nothing was in vain.
Canon, November 2025
Through the seven gates we sink, into the darkness and eternity.
We go and ask, listen and interpret, for the good of the present time.
12 November 2020 (following the custom of oracles from 1 November onwards, along the myth of the Sumerian goddess Inanna, who descended through seven gates into the underworld.)
Mist rises from the fields,
No one is in a hurry anymore.
For in this pale light
You can't see anything at all.
Oh yes! Because whoever looks differently now,
perceives in a daze,
in the great mystery
and weaves itself into it.
Oh yes! Because anyone who goes differently now,
is no longer coming and going,
Follow your inner guidance
and finds the way home.
Late October 2020
The geese are flying, they are flying.
They fly there in their thousands.
The geese fly into the sunset.
You're flying, what do I know, where to?
I'm flying along, I'm flying along with the geese,
boldly across the sky.
I'm flying out over what I know.
I'm flying there with the geese.
November 2020
I grow quiet and ever quieter,
until the decline.
I will remain calm and always calm,
and then at some point,
the darkness comes,
and hugs me.
November Ritual, November 2015
The ancestors sense,
Ancestral premonitions.
The ancestors sense,
Ancestral premonitions.
The ancestors sense.
November for womenSamhain Ritual, November 2017
November Ritual 2007
As it was,
It was just like that.
As it was,
It's true.
Autumn Ritual, September 2015
A silent darkness spreads within me,
and creates space for my soul light.
Novemberritual, November 2017
Midwinter rituals
21 December
When the old comes to an end,
meets the new, a turning point occurs.
But not just like that, not linearly,
but mysterious, dreadful, wonderful.
When the old, comes to an end,
meets the new, a turning point occurs.
For between the new and the old, there is a gap,
If you fall in there, for a brief moment you are at home in infinity.
January 2022
Today I am quiet,
because I don't want to say anything more,
Just sleep, do nothing else,
Just rest.
Today I am quiet, because I don't want to say anything more.,
just dream, do nothing anymore,
Just rest.
Today I am quiet, because I don't want to say anything more.,
Only hope remains, nothing more can be done,
Just rest.
December 2018
We travel through time, from eternity to eternity it's not that far, because in every moment lives vibrancy...
The year that has passed
and it is not a matter of indifference
What happened there!
Because that which was,
was full of wonders,
For those who saw it.
A new year is soon passing,
and it makes no odds,
Whether we understand it!
For that, which will be,
full of wonder,
for those who see it.
December 2020.
I'll bravely take my share of fate into my own hands, I won't drive the world into a wall with it, no!, I'll weave myself into the fabric of life. No effort is in vain, everything counts!
What I do and what I think, whether I hold back or give myself away:
What I hold sacred and whether I share, what I stand for and who I stand with:
Fateweaving Championship!
New Year Ritual January 2024
Inside me – silence
Darkness envelops me
borne by nothing
Empty boundless
Midwinter 2010
Where is the place of silence within me?
Where the fight between you and me
collapses within itself.
Where is the place of silence within me?
Where darkness
tenderly enfolded.
Where is the place of silence within me?
Here, where on its own
From the depths, love springs –
to no one and everyone
unintentionally and without doubt
Me and you
and applies to all life.
In December 2021
It is ended, what once bloomed,
It is the end of my fruitless efforts,
It's over, this year.
New Year's ritual, December 2017
Ref.
Right into the silence, into the unformed intimacy,
Lucia arrives, bringing a new reality to life.
It's on me to take the light,
surrender myself as a candle.
She turns us the other way round,
and makes us young again.
It's on me to take the light,
surrender myself as a candle.
To show myself with my light
And then to return to silence.
New Year's ritual, January 2016
This is where the light is born, out of darkness and nothingness. I remember: I too am a child of light!
I am the new year, I am the new life, I can weave the thread of destiny out of light and love.
January 2021
Fully dissolved
in the realm of winter
Turnaround takes place
a light is lit
Fully dissolved
in the realm of winter
Turnaround takes place
I am this light.
Midwinter 2010
New light, new happiness,
New year, piece of life.
Winter solstice ritual, December, 2015
The new light comes into the world soft and gentle,
and dances his round dance blessedly to the end.
Ah Oh Uh.
New Year's ritual, January 2018
Songs for the vision quest and from youth rituals
(Referens)
I leave everything behind and set off into the land of the soul.
The longing burns and the doubts travel with it.
I leave everything behind and set off into the land of the soul.
Silence calls and it lures me into the forest.
Verses
I go through the eye of the needle of my fears,
pay the price of my illusions.
I take off the mask of who I think I am,
I'm going all alone.
In the land of the soul, I can talk to the animals,
laugh with the flower sisters.
I dance with Brother Wind and keep quiet with Grandad Stone,
I am not alone.
And when night falls, it becomes quiet,
my spirit ascends to the stars.
Images pass before my soul's eye,
I am one with everything.
March 2016
Who dances like a feather,
roars like a lion,
who cries like it rains,
and rests like the night...
He has travelled through the lands of his soul,
who lived, loved, laughed and suffered,
has become whole.
July 2007, Text: Ursula Seghezzi, melody: The river is flowing
The soft light of this morning
illuminate what was previously hidden.
May it shine in your heart and mind
so that you may be more and more yourself.
New Year 2008
I quit my parents, my partner, children, friends
I go (went) for loneliness to find my part.
I quit my habits, my illusions, my beliefs,
I go (went) for emptiness to find my heart.
The earth is my mother, the sky is my father,
the flowers are my sisters and my brother is the tree.
The stones are my grand-parents and the birds are my friends,
I know I'm one of this great family.
Summer 2007
The tree is part of the forest,
the bird is part of the air,
the drop part of the stream,
blooming flowers, they are fragrance.
And I, I am human, belong to your own,
and we are all children of this wonderful One.
It's called: Uma, uma, uma, umaya...
Own vision quest 2008
Marked by life, taught by life, gifted by life, returned to himself.
They do not have to, their work is subtle, they support the circle not by doing, but by being.
Meeting of the vision quest leaders 2009
‘Cause I am part of the family a child of mother earth
a sister (brother) of the trees, the grass, the flowers,
I am a sister (brother) of the dog, the fish, the beetle and the frog
the wind, the water, and the fire, and the stones.
‘Cause I am free like a bird on the tree that has heard
the calling of the spirits of the open space
I use the wings of my soul to follow the flow
I trust the wind it will bring me to my place.
Refrain:
So there is nowhere to go and nothing to do
just feel the spirit of the nature inside you.
So there is nowhere to go and nothing to do
just feel the spirit inside you.
Own vision quest 2005
La lloba escucha me, la lloba te ruego,que tu vengas,que me das,algo te tu fuerza,y algo te tu sobredina,para luchar por la vida,para abrir mi alma...
(Wolf woman, hear me, wolf woman, I beg you, may you come and give me of your strength and your wisdom, so that I may fight for being alive, so that I may open my soul...)
Own vision quest 2005
We are a family connected by destiny
belonging together forever ever
We are a family connected by destiny
belonging together wherever you go
So go go go into the world and open up your heart
find your own family and be part
So go go go into the world and open up your heart
find your own destiny and start (your own life - now!).
Summer 2009
The earth is my mother and I am her daughter, a mother like her will I be.
The earth is my mother and I am her daughter, grandmother of my children she will be.
With a womb and a loving heart and spirit, wast and wide, carrying and crying, with eyes of delight, dancing and dying, so wild and so free, a woman like her will I be.
Walkaway for girls 2007
I'm a beautiful girl and soon to be a red woman,
au part of the big up and down
Threshold of the lunar flow cycle.
(I am a small female, and soon a red woman,
also part of the great ups and downs
swell of the lunar flow cycle).
Girls' ritual 2009
Sunga stada ena pitschna matta
Ma da oss anve sungia pi
Vign ad esser ena bella donna
persiva salva su il fi.
(I was a little girl.
But from now on I will be more.
I will become a beautiful woman
I'll jump over fire for that).
Girls' ritual 2008
There are so many mosquitoes feasting on me, a whole army and more and more! Night falls and the mosquitoes gently disperse, dreaming of breakfast, full of delight.
May 2006
Songs for Mother Earth and the cycle of life
It feeds and waters a mother finely
Many hundreds of thousands of little children.
Which has nourished them without number,
devours them all over again.
And brings them to light again,
from her womb she can do this!
Summer 2004
Life is a journey,
I'm going round in circles,
That's how it feels sometimes.
With every lap I do,
I understand life and myself better,
Step by step I go.
Life is a journey,
the circles when viewed,
a gentle spiral track.
With humility through the difficulties,
with devotion to eternity,
to more and more vitality.
June 2018
The wheel turns round and round and round,
Nobody knows the beginning.
The wheel turns round and round and round,
all the while without end.
And the wheel turns round and round, no one knows the beginning.
And the wheel turns round and round, always without end.
Midwinter ritual 2008
I will see trees (flowers, animals, people, myself) grow,
will see trees thrive.
I will see trees die,
will be with them.
New Year's ritual January 2016
Trees open up spaces
Rooms for our souls.
Trees give the gift of dreams
Dream ourselves into this world.
We wouldn't exist without them
We couldn't live at all.
They are our primal ancestors,
Mother Earth's blessing.
TreeTime May 2021
I am the weaver of the silver wheel,
and the North Star at night is my home.
From this I give birth to life every morning,
and weave the fate of human beings.
And when the souls condense down to earth,
then it continues the circle of life through its being.
And when the creatures decompose in the end,
then I'll call her back to my starry place.
And there are souls who create from nothing,
and there are souls who mould the fullness.
And there are souls who weave the essence,
And there are souls that lead into silence.
November, 2016
Buna notg, clera glingna
buna notg, dorma bagn.
Buna notg, clera glingna
buna notg, dorma bagn.(Good night, full moon, good night, sleep well)
Buna notg, tota tera, (Good night, whole earth) Buna notg, tgera
Lea (Good night, dear Lea - insert female names) Buna notg, tger
David (Good night, dear David - insert male names)
Summer 2008
Look at the stars,
shine above us.
Bring a piece of eternity
into our world.
Look at the stars,
shine above us.
Narrating the past,
at the speed of light.
Look at the stars,
shine above us.
Showing what we are ourselves,
cosmic dust.
August 2019
We are the children of your love, and you always hold and carry us. As you yourself unfold and change, you take us with you when you walk in circles.
We look after the earth, we are good brothers and sisters, all your children, today and tomorrow.
uma workshop March 2020
Mother Earth I can feel your body under my feet
mother earth I can even hear your heart beat.
If it rains, if the sun shines, if the night falls dark into my heart
mother earth I always know you carry me.
(Mum, I can feel your body underneath me.Mum, I can hear your heartbeat. Whether it's raining, whether the sun is shining or the night is falling dark in my heart, mum, I know that you're faithful to me).
Summer 2007
I am space and time
Creator of eternity
I am space and time
Creator of eternity
I am heaven and earth
Guardian of the underworld
I am heaven and earth
Guardian of the underworld
And I dance and weave
All life in it
And I dance and weave
All life in it
And so I take
all life
To walk and weave
And so take
I all life
To walk and weave
November ritual 2004
I am old and wise
Circles, circles I draw
Year after year,
always represent
old, old, old.
Winter 2008
Life is a circle, it goes round and round and round.
Into the space of silence, dropped the power of the living sound.
There is up and down, and left and right, your live will meet them all.
Don't hesitate, don't judge, don't fight, just hear the spirit's call.
Hero's Journey 2007
Hansel - male voice.
Care and maintenance,
Give and take,
in the ups and downs of being.
Gretel - female voices
Doing and resting,
with the changing tides,
in the ups and downs of being.
Ritual fairytale journey, october 2015
La d'Seel la bambele la bambele, la bambele.
La d'Seel la bambeleLa si la si.
(Let your soul dangle, let it be).
Spring 2006
Travelling through the lands of the soul
We are travelling through the lands of the soul,
explore the spaces of this world.
We are travelling through the lands of the soul,
explore what holds us.
Ritual course, April 2016
Te ist la mia feglia - bela, bela feglia Ed ia sung la mama, mumma veglia.
Cun mintga pass tge te marschasscreivas la tia storia
cun mintga pass tge te marchas.a screivas sen la mia veta.
Te ist la mia feglia - bela, bela fegliasaptgas tge te porta noua te vast.
You are my daughter (my son) - beloved, little daughter
And I am your mother, old mother earth.
With every step you take
Are you writing your story
With every step you take
Write them on my body.
You are my daughter - beloved, little daughter
Know that I carry you wherever you go.
You are my daughter (my son) - beautiful, little daughter
And I am your mother, old Mother Earth.
With every step you walk you write your own story with every step you walk
you write it on my body.
You are my daughter - beautiful, little daughter
and I carry you, wherever you go.
Walkaway for girls in Puschlav/CH 2008
Muntogna Toissa, ia sfondr an ties corp, mintga notg.
Anavos la veta, te am sveglias mintga de, Piz Mitgel.
Mintga notg, mintga de, rond e rond igl muvimaint
igl madem cres, grond e grond
sella tera ed agl firmamaint.
(Mount Toissa (in Graubünden), I sink into your body every night.
You wake me up to life every day, Piz Mitgel.
Every night, every day, round and round is the movement,
the same circle, large and large,
on earth as in heaven).
Summer 2008
La nuit est tombée
Claire lune est montée
Le monde se semble renversé
Je marche pied à pied, pied à pied.
L'esprit de la nuit m'entoure
Me tient dans ses bras d'amour.
July 2007
We welcome the morning,
in honour of midday.
We take a bow before the evening
and at night we are silent.
Circles within circles
in many ways
We are also a circle
circling.
Winter 2011
A fresh wind is blowing from the east.
The sun shines warmly from the south.
From the west, the water flows back into the sea,
and in the north there is cold and silence.
And in the east I laugh like a little child.
And in the south I dance with delight.
Then in the west I am lonely, sad and completely empty
and in the north my own will is silent.
Refrain:
This is how I dance my new birth every day
Dance the taking and dance the giving.
Dance my own death every day.
Dance along in the
Dance of eternal life.
Summer 2010
I'm coming home to the wind
and I'm coming home to the fire
and I'm coming home to the water
and I'm coming home to the earth.
I will fly like a bird in the sky
and I will burn like the fire in the night
and I will flow like the river to the sea
and I will ly like a stone on the ground...
Summer 2006
Nature children's songs
Good night, flowers,
Good night, trees,
Good night, you birds,
you go to sleep.
Only the nightingale,
sings her night song,
love all night,
about us.
And tomorrow is a new day, I wonder what it will bring. Now I'm going to go to bed and look forward to seeing you again!
June 2018
High German:
Thank you dear Mother Earth for this wonderful day!
I was able to experience so much that I don't want to miss any of it.
So much love! So much ouch! So much comfort! So much understanding!
So much running, so much climbing, falling down, walking on...
Swiss German:
Thank you dear mum, for the wonderful day!
I've learnt so much that I don't want to miss anything.
So much love! So much ouch! So much comfort, so much understanding!
So much running, so much clattering, abekeie, wiitergah!
Spring 2019
Sleep, (insert child's name), sleep,
because the moon is already circling,
takes you on his journey,
through the long night, gently and quietly.
Sleep, sleep, sleep,
because the darkness has already spread,
stretched like a cloak across the firmament,
she guides you protectively through the night.
Sleep, sleep, sleep,
because the stars are already out,
dance their round dance in the arc of the sky,
Joys and sorrows are cancelled in their circles.
Sleep, sleep, sleep,
because the dream fairies have long since awoken,
paint pictures, colours and shapes into the night,
Let yourself be guided, because dreams are made for you.
Sleep, sleep, sleep,
Because the noise of the day has long since disappeared,
the memory of the great deeds is hereditary,
because silence has crept in quietly.
Sleep, sleep, sleep,
Let yourself dream, because you don't have to do anything anymore,
let yourself be, let yourself rest,
because it is silent now.
April 2018
Sleep, (insert child's name), sleep,
Sleep in the land of the soul,
where the worlds connect,
Dreams find you
April 2018
Tonight, tonight the Percht is travelling around with her winter sack.
Tomorrow you wake up and think to yourself: Did she bring me anything?
So put out your boots and a light for old Hel.
Then she will find her way to your house and bring food for body and soul.
Perchten parade (aka Father Christmas) 6 December 2020
Today is Halloween, we ghosts are the masters and we're on the loose.
Today is Halloween, we are the nice dead, are you the living nice too?
It's Halloween today, so we knock and bring the blessing and ask: trick or treat?
31 October 2022
I'm a new tooth, I'm number four (five, etc.), I'm brand new here now. And who, who are you? I'm number three, your neighbour. And we are number 2 and 1 at the bottom, we were the first ones here!
Oh, so many teeth, who does this mouth belong to? It belongs to little Mio, so stay healthy everyone!
October 2018
We are all sitting at the kitchen table, looking at our plates,
the plants give themselves to us and are happy when we are grateful.
The animals have given us their lives and will live on in us for a little while longer. Now we all sing along happily: Thank you and bon appétit!
November 2019
I'm tired, kangaroo,
my eyes are about to close.
The kangaroo is still calling me
„Have a good rest!“ to.
For Mio, April 2018
(Referens)
I would love to sew what you like,
a good fairy to enchant you.
Verses
But it's not a long way round,
are all flown out,
to all the many smart children,
I'm having a sore throat (earache, sore throat...) right now.
But I don't want to be around at the moment,
I'll sing you the song of the fairy.
At least you're not elei,
We'll see if it helps.
Now listen, now you're a bit calmer,
and it doesn't hurt quite as much.
Maybe everyone lives here,
e chlini Zauberfee?
April 2018
(Referens)
How I would love to take away what ails you,
a fairy godmother to enchant you.
(verse)
But there is no fairy with us,
have all flown out,
to all the little children,
who also have a tummy ache (earache, sore throat...).
But because we don't have any at the moment,
I'll sing you the song of the fairies,
At least you won't be alone,
and we'll see if it helps.
You're much calmer now,
and it doesn't hurt quite so much any more.
Perhaps each and every one of us
A little magic fairy?
June 2018
A new star is born,
the earth is illuminated.
A new star is born,
Welcome to this world.
Ritual to enter the birthing room, February 2018
Good morning, you little child, you've just woken up! You've opened your eyes, a new day has dawned on you! What will it bring you? Lots of laughter and lots of singing. What pain and danger will you experience today? Your guardian spirit surrounds you!
May 2018
Child, don't cry, your eyes are already closing. There on the horizon, the night fairy is coming, yes, I can already see her, she'll be here soon.
She brings her black scarf, lovingly embroidered, with lots of colourful dreams that she sends you.
Child, don't cry, your eyes are already closing. There on the horizon, the night fairy is coming, yes, I can see her already, she's here now. She lays her black shawl gently over you, covers your body and lays it to rest.
And your soul can fly now! And your soul can fly now!
August 2018
Mrs Mother lies down for her midday nap, she rests well. You should let her rest so that she can regain courage, strength and love.
Mr Father lies down for his midday nap, he rests well. You should let him rest so that he can regain courage, strength and love.
October 2018
Child, I love you very much and every evening I think: That's the best thing! Cuddling you, hugging you, joking around a bit, and then you slowly come to rest. Try out a little lullaby, massage your little feet, then your little eyes will fall shut. Good night!
January 2019
Ref.
Patience, little one, be patient,
if I don't know right now,
what you little creature needs.
Patience, little one, be patient,
if I don't know right now,
what you scream and look for.
I breastfeed you and I swaddle you
I'll turn you round and look,
what helps, what you need.
I hold you and I sing for you,
I caress you and look,
what helps, what you need.
Melody and lyrics (patience for mothers during pregnancy) by Anna Mittag,
Text (Patience for children after birth) by Ursula Seghezzi
For Mio, when I was desperate, in April 2018
Swiss German:
So much air in my book, it has to be used,
so much air in my book, it has to go.
That's why I chew my cakes and blink my eyes and wiggle back and forth...
High German:
So much air still in my belly,
so much air in my belly, it has to go.
That's why I whinge and fidget and toss and turn...
For (from?) Mio, April 2018
The day is coming to an end, all excitement is coming to rest, go to sleep my little one, let the fidgeting be quiet/enter the land of dreams.
October 2018
Now a time is over,
It was so beautiful for the two of us,
have enjoyed it, day and night intimately,
to be connected.
Now a time is coming,
it will be so beautiful for the three of us,
will enjoy it and experience a lot,
to be connected.
Yes, that is the course of time,
everything that comes passes away,
so enjoy in all that is,
to be connected.
April 2019
Good morning, little Mio, do you know how much I like you, good morning, good morning, good morning a new day!
Good morning, little Mio, good morning little sparrow! Good morning, good morning, good morning a new day!
July 2018
Tomorrow we go into the forest for four days, where the trees rustle, the birds sing, the eagle owl hoots and the cuckoo peeps!
To prepare the children for the WaldZeit base camp, July 2018
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