SUNDAY SONG AND RUMINATION - Alana Levandoski

Playing Mary Magdalene - All Flame

2/6/2021

In this episode, I talk quite a bit about how I developed the Mary Magdalene character for the When Love Meets Dust video which premieres on February 10th, at 7pm CST.

You will also hear a scratch recording of a song I wrote last fall that I will be recording for next year's album. I think it lends a lot of support to the points I try to make!

The painting of Mary Magdalene (above) is by Leonardo da Vinci, and I sat with this painting while listening to Joni Mitchell's "Magdalene Laundries" over and over, to develop how I would portray Mary in my video. I speak about this more deeply in the talk below.

5 Comments

Sarah Ruston

2/6/2021 11:54:36 pm

Thank you so much for this beautiful song (and rumination), Alana. Mary Magdalene is one of my three personal Patron Saints, so I look forward to your premiere video with tender but excited anticipation!

After all, Jesus could have appeared to anyone he chose first of all but that person was Mary Magdalene, his devoted disciple.

In the end, when we return to ashes and dust, from ashes and dust, it doesn't matter who anyone (at all) thinks or says Mary Magdalene was (or we were), because our Lord and Savior already knows our very intimate all.

So we can simply choose to look upon him and be radiant, needing no one else, or their views and opinions, at all.

Continued blessings on your incredible work, my dear.

Sarah XXX

James E Lumsden link

2/7/2021 02:42:25 pm

I am grateful you have shared this with us: it is profound and opens hearts to what dehumanization means. And you give it a context re: what our longing is really about. Disobedient or not, it is of the holy and leads to the sacred, too. Thank you. The feel of the song has soul, Alana, and lyrical depth, too. I look forward to this project unfolding and once I get our small home refinanced, look forward to adding a small monthly offering as a patron - perhaps as early as this time next month.

Vicki Oleson

2/8/2021 07:12:49 am

Thank you, Alana. This song is an eternal reflection of the feminine experience. You articulate for us the songs of our hearts.

Mary Travis

2/9/2021 08:05:17 am

Thank you, thank you Alana for what you shared in this podcast and for the spiritually rich song! It is as if seeing the dehumanizing lies removed from Mary Magdalene also removes them from me, from all of us.

Suzanne Thomas

2/11/2021 04:09:31 am

Thank you for this illuminating and beautiful rumination and song, Alana. I learn so much from you.
Your When Love Meets Dust video is beautiful. With nuance and love, you fully and distinctly embody Mary Magdalene, the Rebel, and the Roman Citizen.

Playing Mary Magdalene - All Flame

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