Ella Fitzgerald said, ”The only thing better than singing is more singing!” Use song to find wellness in ourselves, each other, and our world. In each episode, Patricia introduces a song that she trusts to help her navigate life. These songs provide a great soundtrack to your day — whether it’s comfort, presence, delight, grief-tending, or simply easing the way. Periodic interviews with song creators add color and understanding. Songs have helped Patricia heal, adapt, and grow, and she hopes these selections will become companions for you as well. Visit the website, abreathofsong.com, to learn more and suggest a song!
Episodes
Wednesday Dec 31, 2025
Wednesday Dec 31, 2025
The Sunday after this episode is released, January 4th, 2026, at 4 p.m. Eastern time, there will be an online gathering of folk who use song to help navigate life -- and we'll sing through this Ribbon of Songs with live-looping! To learn more, click here, or sign up right now to join us!
Lyrics & Links to the original episodes for the songs in this ribbon.
by Maggie Wheeler
Let it blow through, let it blow through.
Open up the windows of your soul, and let it blow through.
Hard times come, and hard times go, let it blow through.
Open up the windows of your soul, and let it blow through.
Hard times come and hard times go, let it blow.
Open up the windows of your soul, and let it blow through.
by Abigail Spinner McBride
1. Open my eyes to the miracles around me,
wake me up, wake me up.
(2x)
3. Shake me from my sleep and stir me from my dreaming.
Chorus: Awaken me. (4x)
by Patricia Norton
Let me not borrow this trouble
ahead of time.
Let me not carry this sorrow
before it's mine.
It will come when it comes, and go when it goes.
I will know; I will know.
It will come when it comes and go when it goes,
I will know.
My trust and love are banks on the river
where grief and praise can find a flow.
My tender heart, it floats on the ocean.
The waves come. The waves go.
by Jan Harmon
Oh the wind, it is a song
that harbours through the winter,
Oh the sail, it is a door
that bids the song to enter,
And let us sail the sea, good friend,
And let us sing together,
The singer lasts a season long,
While the song, it lasts forever.
204. May the Way Open Before You
by Ana Hernández
May the way open before you.
May you see beyond darkness and light
to the love you are;
to the love you bring into the world.
by Debbie Nargi-Brown
Be open for something wonderful to happen
Be open to the possibility
(x2)
Aiye Aiye Aiye, Aiye Aiye Aiye (x2)
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