I need more than ever people, literature, music and conversations which lift me up. In this interview Joan Baez says that she is in denial of the state of the world 95% of the time to be able to live and cope and activist 5% of the time. I don’t think I am in denial but I hide in a filtered bubble 95% of the time to be able to live in this world.
Here is a great interview Krista Tippet and The On Being project did with Joan Baez in October.
My cousin Anna sent me this song after my mother had died in a car crash – it helped me cry and heal – and it also lifts me up (and help me cry) today.
Ylva Rancken-Lutz
"I am linked therefore I am" 
I arranged that song for my men’s choir more than 10 years ago using a Finnish translation by one of the choir members, Raimo Suuronen. I’ll try to send a video of it to you by Messenger or something…
Thanks! Tjat sound interesting!
Thank you for posting this! It really spoke to me, Ylva! Some years ago, I arranged a Finnish translation of “You Raise Me Up” for Pylkönmäki’s Men’s choir. It has been an inspiring part of their repertory. They just performed that piece again on Finnish Independence Day. I had the privilege of hearing Joan Baez live in a huge stadium in Ann Arbor, MI, in 1971 or ’72. She was and still is one of my idols and I have her songbooks. I never became a singer like her… but she & I do have “dealing with internal demons” in common … that is consoling somehow to find out about other’s battles… Hope you and Jonathan are doing well!
Hello! Wonderful that you translated it! It’s just an amazing song. We saw a wonderful documentary about Joan Baez. What a what an amazing person! We are fine, thank you and who are you?