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The Lady of Mizpah
MIZPAH –
a word from the holy scriptures can be translated to “hopeful expectation”, a
symbol of peace and wisdom. It is inscribed on an antique locket given
to Helena Lind when she was a child. A gift from her mother in rememberance of
Helena’s beloved grandfather, whith whom she shared the passion for music,
literature and history from earliest childhood, the myths around the magical
world of Avalon being her favourites…and MIZPAH.
“The mysterious word MIZPAH “talked” to me since I was little. To me it was a magical spell of goodness, not knowing then that it would be exactly that for my life one far away day.”
Later she named her music and companies AVALON, after the legendary “Island of the Blessed” and “other world” of the Celts , said to exist somewhere in the south-west of the British Isles, where she also produces her music.
“I like to reach people who expect more, be it in music or in life itself”, says the artist.
Lind made a remarkable career as producer and artist in the music industry.
We meet her in her country hideaway. There is no representative office but her favourite room of the house, “the rummage room” : covered in masses of manuscripts, books, production notes, records and CDs. It is difficult to spot a few keyboards as they are currently hidden under her designs. Helena Lind’s charming personal motto “seek to be found” is written on the wall, accompanied by her poems, lyrics and ideas. The tiny place oozes creativity and spirit.
Helena Lind’s life circled around her daughter Nefer, music and being there for her loved ones and many others. A good and very successful life too, endangered extremely in 1992, just after the release of Helena’s most important musical work “The Magic World of Avalon”. The consequences of an accident en route to a television appearance left Helena totally incapacitated.
“I lost my health, many abilities and all I’ve
worked for, everything that there was to lose, to be then left “for dead” along
the roadside”, Lind remembers yet without a trace of bitterness.
She refused
to accept what to others seemed her unalterable fate. She still had her inner
strength, her belief, ideals and: her family’s old locket: “MIZPAH!”
The hopeful meaning became the leitmotif of Helena Lind, reminding her never to give up.
“Even when there was nothing but problems galore, insults heaped upon injuries I could consult the dream that comforted me so often and fly away. I was enabled to look up, never down. Anyway, you may still think and dream, even when in pain, stuffed with medication and without a so called scientifically based prognosis. I chose to follow that shining star appearing for me at night, and thereby focusing on turning inspiration into reality”.
Like a dream walker, with great courage and following her self-created exercise and health regime, Lind managed to overcome a major part of the severe consequences from the accident. Always straight in the face of a multitude of adverse circumstances. After a struggle of many years she begins to re-emerge from the shadows by composing her star-lit dream into the poem and song “The Feeling of Mizpah”.
Lind starts up again with hardly a penny to her name but a lot of determination and irresistable charisma.
“By that time I was able to recover some energy but my looks had gone AWOL and even though I got used to and had accepted the fact that I was not attractive anymore yet the consternation I met by my former colleagues was something to deal with. Appearance is all you know, in some circles and I appreciate the necessity of a product to look great, but at the end of the day artists are vulnerable human beings. There I was, glad to have been through the worst of my collected injuries only to be reproached that I did not look the way I did before the accident and again applied with the all too quick ”abandon hope label”.
So Helena Lind looked beyond and went there alone.
And slowly, step by step, the lady succeeded. And…look at her now. She achieved marvellous results in regards to her almost broken health and looks, all by doing the right things and avoiding the wrong. Lind calls it “The MIZPAH Way”. Others would refer to it as a living philosophy plus a health & beauty regime.
“Whenever the floor seemed to vanish under my feet I was humming “The Feeling of Mizpah” to myself and simply marched on the winding but probably right road ahead. Yes, it worked for me, still does, always will”, Lind admits with a wink and a smile.
The MIZPAH song was launched truly in concert with a small collection of Mizpah pendants, created by Helena Lind with loving attention to historical detail, mostly handmade from gold and silver by a small family firm in Birmingham, just like 150 and more years ago.
Helena has achieved her first goal uniting her music and the ancient symbol-word of hope and love – Mizpah – in a very unique and working philosophy – to international acclaim.
More steps are to follow. Helena is planning a MIZPAH magazine and much more.
“I want to share my dream and the true meaning of MIZPAH with the whole world.”
But this is just the beginning. There are more visions to come true: ” Mizpah is an answer, an idea to get people in all big and small corners of the globe to start thinking about walking towards each other, to cooperate, eliminating madness and learning to jump those selfrighteous shadows. With a little bit of truly good will it is possible to understand and live the message and say : MIZPAH !”
© Helena Lind
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The Feeling of MIZPAH
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In my dream there is the music of great
wings And whenever I’m in darkness There’s a word of old it’s written in the skies And whenever there is darkness For an age of understanding We will find our way home from a
far Music & Lyrics © Helena Lind – EMI Music Publishing |
This article published by MIZPAH Magazine - ©2010 www.mizpah.tv
© Helena Lind
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