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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB6xo3tPOIk

I came across this little tidbit, and it really set me thinking. Read it yourself, and then think / respond... The source link is at the bottom...

I have to admit, there has been a slump in my output... I think it has more to do with stress and the world caving in all around me more than it had to do with my abilities... So I was not worried. I was just absorbing. But there has been so much to absorb...

When I was younger it was easier. I just had to think about love and songs got rolling. It's because love interest and how love affects you is a dominant thing in a young life. Understood.  Now it seems that although love is still a focus, more worldly things come into place... This earth is amazing... And humans are amazing... The horrors we inflict are deafening... The beauty breathtaking. So all things in balance...

How all this came to be is a mystery so deep it seems to invade my thoughts on a daily basis, as does the pain and suffering of millions when I read the news. So absorbing life has been more difficult this time. Which leads to either darker material or lighter (as the antithesis of it all)... I've been doing both.

Anyway. Now I am having fun with making music. I've been singing more and more each day in my car driving around. Voice is getting into shape. As I write this my throat is hurting, but it is a good pain, the sort that an athlete gets when he or she knows the training is good. I am owning this feeling.

Something is coming, and that something is songs.


 

I sometimes forget... A friend helped me to remember this...

Something strange happened to me today as I walked through the pier at Santa Monica... I saw many street performers, and I didn't stop really... Just casual distant observation as I was walking... But there was this one...

He was saying something like, "All I need is five little dollars... Just five, and everything will be perfect...!" I did not watch the beginning of his act, so I had no idea what he was going to do. He introduced this little girl as his best assistant ever, and something in my mind clicked in interest. She was colllecting the cash. The crowd waned a bit... And no money came forth. So the guy says, "Spiritually speaking, it's not the money. So forget the money then. Give me some good energy and I'll finish off the show!" And he did this crazy contortion / break dance thing. And the crowd dispersed. since I was on the fringes, I went on my way...

Seriously, less than two minutes later, while my family was looking at stuff in a shop, I felt this compulsion to give this guy that five dollars. I don't know why. But in my soul I knew I had to. So I walked back to where he was cleaning up and there he was, with his little girl and his grandmother (i think) helping him pack up. He looked weary, but he was clearly enjoying having his grandmother and daughter with him and supporting him. I felt at once an incredible love for this family.

I went up to him and I said, "Good show, and you said you needed just five little dollars, right?" The look in his eyes told me the same thing that I knew a few minutes before. There had been a communication. It may not have been a voice per say, but there it was. In the grand scheme of things, something knew he needed that money, and that I had it in my pocket to give. Strangers crossing paths at random? Not for me.

Maybe I am deluded. But I tell you what... My delusion sure felt good for the rest of the day, and if that was my sole purpose for being in Santa Monica today... I am beyond satisfied. I played a part in a cosmic game and got to see it almost from the inside. Call me crazy, I'll love it!

Has anything like this ever happened to you?

I was wondering about your thoughts on this Swine Flu scare... ?

Watching this gives me hope, and not the false one that we all speak of, but the actual one that comes when people take action in their world and get off their asses to do something. And from such a young person, this is astounding. i am happy and proud of her... Who is she?

The Girl Who Silenced The World For 5 Minutes.



Severn Cullis-Suzuki (born November 30, 1979 in Vancouver, Canada) is
an environmental activist, speaker, television host and author. Born to
writer Tara Elizabeth Cullis and geneticist and environmental activist
David Suzuki, she has spoken around the world about environmental
issues, urging listeners to define their values, act with the future in
mind, and take individual responsibility.

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