Defying doctors’ expectations, a nine-year-old Canadian girl recovered from polio. Developing a new sense of mysticism, she began painting pictures and singing folk songs, growing up to become sixties icon Joni Mitchell. In September 2007, after years of retire­ment, she raised her voice in a call to save the planet, releasing her new CD, Shine.

“Shine” is also the title of a recent song by Lori and Micah Wilshire.  Five years ago, when their musical career hit a snag, they left the fast-paced life in Los Angeles and moved to rural Virginia, where they began writ­ing and producing for other artists. Last year Micah was out chopping wood when they got a call from CBS Records for a lucrative television/record deal. Their song, “Shine,” featured on a May 2007 episode of Ghost Whisperer, now rocks out on their CBS EP, How to Fly, and forth­coming album.

Karen Drucker released her inspirational Shine CD in Sep­tember 2007. She’d grown up in southern California with the Hollywood sign outside her win­dow, beckoning her to follow her dreams. At age twelve, she learned the sign was going to be torn down, so she recruited friends to ride their bikes around Hollywood, getting pledges and publicity to save it. Now her songs and chants inspire thou­sands of others to follow their dreams.

Michelle Chappel debuted her new Shine folk/country/pop fusion CD in October 2007, at the Center for Spiritual Living in Seattle. Chappel had been sin­ging and playing the piano since age four, but her parents never noticed her talent. Searching for approval, she excelled in school. She went on to get a Ph.D. in psychology at Princeton, playing an old guitar for comfort. Years later, as a successful college professor, she realized some­thing was missing from her life, so she took a leap of faith, left her academic job behind, and followed her heart to become a singer/songwriter and inter­national creativity consul­tant.

All of these musicians have found their own way to “shine.” Now, in a wave of shining synchronicity, their music is telling us it’s time to do the same: to live more creatively, bringing new har­monies to ourselves and our world.

Their message affirms spiritual principles that can transform our lives. As Science of Mind reminds us, by looking to the light we claim our power to make a dif­ference. Joni Mitchell had retired, and was living quietly in a stone house on the coast of British Columbia, enjoying her relation­ship with the daughter she’d given up for adoption in 1965. One summer evening she sat down at her piano, wrote a hymn of gratitude for the beauty around her, and suddenly new possibilities appeared. The Alberta Ballet asked to use her songs in a ballet and she was offered a recording contract with Columbia Records.

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