Joy & The Arts for Resilience

We fuel our spirits – compose and perform songs, write and recite poetry, present paintings, drawings, sculpture, and dance to lift our voices, share inspiration, hopes and vision.

If you wish to receive a recording of the January 20, 2026 Healing Service,
contact BeaconLightForce@gmail.com.

Windborne Singers – All You Fascists Bound to Lose
In the spirit of Woody Guthrie, we’re keeping this song alive and sending it out from the woods of Massachusetts to the streets of Minneapolis and everywhere communities gather in solidarity and resistance

Singing Resistance Toolkit

Andrea Frisch-Hara sings a Niggun (a wordless melody) inspired by Psalm 13 “Bring Light Unto My Eyes” – the video is a collection of superb photography.

View and listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnXEzIO6DVM

Learn the Songs of Resistance from Minnesota

THIS IS NOT WHO WE ARE – Cathy Fink & Tom Paxton
https://youtube.com/shorts/KFR8Odl7fF8?si=iWHbiP3852fnxrGP

“Join ICE” – Jesse Welles
https://youtu.be/61I4hlig78w

“Lovingkindness” by Chava Mirel
Metta Meditation: A Complete Guide to Loving-Kindness | Lion’s Roar

“Shed a Little Light” – James Taylor

Did you know… In the 1940’s Norwegian students and teachers wore paperclips on their lapels – a quiet form of resistance to Nazi Occupation, a symbol that, “We are bound together.” Listen for that phrase in Taylor’s song.

We Believe in Freedom / Ella’s Song: Sweet Honey in the Rock


If I Had a Hammer by Peter Seeger & Lee Hays (1949)
performed by Peter, Paul & Mary (1962)


Family Tree by Tom Chapin

THE LOW ROAD by Marge Piercy


Photo of Fresnel Lens Lighthouse Light, late 1800’s from Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels, MD – Six equal panels, 62″ high, 1,984 lbs.

“Countless Souls” ink on clayboard, 8x 10, 2021 by Nancy Wolitzer

“Love Endures” ink on clayboard, 7 x 5, 2021 by Nancy Wolitzer

More coming soon!