A Train to Anywhere....

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This photo is from earlier in the month....3 feet of snow ago...we are setting a record...for snowiest January ever...me, I am fantasizing about taking a train to anywhere......

4 AM Hopemongering....

{{{ This is just a 4 AM-Can Not Sleep Post...my MLK post will be up later today....and there is plenty down below...this is just some Hopemongering Music...}}}
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So I had to go to work yesterday afternoon, and this was the last song I heard and watched from the Lincoln Memorial Event was " Shower the People" sung by James Taylor and John Legend and others.....This Song has been my song since I was 15, it is the one song that says all that I believe in ....and I have sung and lived it through thick and thin...and some Very Bad Times....It is my Anchor ...That showering people with Love Makes Us Stronger...always... I have lullabyed my son to it, sung it to sick PEDS and NICU babes,hummed it to dying AIDS patients and friends, and danced at weddings to it and driven across this Country seeing Our Country in the background....I Know it is what keeps Us Together....( and HBO can kiss my ass I am posting THIS song...watch the people swaying together by the thousands....so moving....)

Video Below is Highlights of Obama Speaking (2004) at the Convention.(My story.... I have blogged before how I was living in a rooming house on the California Coast , in one room that summer with my teenage son, having lost Everything as a Witness and Whistleblower on a Huge Federal Criminal Environmental Case that Bush's People shut down....Covered Up....Hope was beyond Fragile...and 6-6 made me Stop and Listen to This Man Talking about E.Pluribus Unum....We The People, We are ONE People....and 6-6 said "He will be President One Day"....and I thought hmm, yeah...One Day...NOW we KNOW that ONE DAY IS HERE....and I am beyond grateful that this One Man Planted a Seed of Hope with Us and Millions of Others....)

What Kind of World do you want ?

"World " Five For Fighting...

What Kind of World do you want ?

I've got soul...but I'm not a soldier....

by the "Killers."..

Rivers of Belief.....And the Silent Warrior....And the Return to Innocence...

My son discovered this band when he was about three and four...and he loved them..Enigma...except he called them the "Rocking Monks"...they went on every road trip and he spent hours playing with Lego with them blasting in the background....
and to this day...we both still love this group...they are soothing...spiritual and magical....wise.
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Rivers of Belief....

Silent Warrior......

The Return to Innocence....

Just want an Ordinary Word....again...

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Walked home in the snow....followed someone's else's prints in the snow...thought how nice it was to have fresh prints to follow...nice to have someone to Follow...and realized it was not about the Snow...it was about the Bush Regime ending...how I count the days and hours...I want to Follow Someone Else..I am ready...much hard work to do...but am very very ready...am tired of walking alone and waiting....No More Waiting...
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lullabye I sang to my son....a long time ago...Duran Duran "Ordinary World"...funny how the song means more now...all I want is an Ordinary World again...not wake up more worried than I went to sleep...worried the King has done Something More Stupid...

Saturday Music..." 10,000 MIles...I 'll Fly Away"....

When I would drive to see my patients I would play this song all the time..."Fare Thee Well"....it is more of a blessing song... a prayer for those you care about....wishing them peace...wishing them well....

Witnessing Change...

Friday Music:::Honoring all of us, Witnessing History as we WAIT for Change......I picked the song today with that spirit in mind...( and taking a break from the Goodbye for the Feeble King)....Sarah McLachlan " Witness"...the lyrics are pretty amazing...,,,

"Make me a witness.....take me out.....out of darkness...out of doubt ,
I won't weigh you down....with good intention.....won't make fire out of clay....or other inventions,
Will we burn in heaven ?....like we do down here....will the Change come?....while we're waiting...
Everyone is waiting"

Only Hope.....

"Only Hope" by Switchfoot....beautiful sunsets....and sunrises....

A Respite Offered.......

Sometimes in my mind....I need to go Somewhere Else....and One Day I will get off the NO Fly List...and I have long list of places I hunger to explore.....Beautiful Gardens in Bali....peaceful tranquil.....It's funny but growing up I used to go with my Aunt Elizabeth and watch Travelogues that the AAA used to have, except the members would create slideshows to music....it's funny how much they remind me of Youtube...oh how my wonderful Auntie Elizabeth all 4ft 11inchs of her would have loved the Internet and Youtube....

More Bali...East Bali...

More....see how beautiful these children are...and how different it is...

The Market....such gentle people....beautiful art and crafted goods...