Truth & Courage...

 

You know...

 

Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr - all just ordinary people, like me and you...

 

As were all the other "heroes/heroines" of social change...

 

With the same fears, needs, human personalities, struggles...

 

ALL they did, was speak what they felt/thought was the truth and ACTED on it...

 

Stuck to it, stayed true to it, refused to give it up, even though they knew there would be a price to pay for speaking up...

 

 

We all know what is 'the right thing to do" - our gut tells us so, and it and our conscience "niggle" at us when we turn our backs on that...

 

Most of us pretend we can't feel/hear that niggle - we rationalise, justify, excuse our way to ignoring it...

 

  

 

What would the world be like if WE STOP TURNING OUR BACKS ON WHAT WE KNOW TO BE TRUE?...

 

LYRICS:

Try and remember now just what has been done.
Enslavement, displacement of every nation.
And now to one nation, everyone hold their grudge.
Kind of makes me wonder about which side I'm on.
I don't defend white, and I don't defend black.
I defend truth and rights and all of that.
I work on situations where I'm at
Hold my position and never fall of track.

Chorus
Nah give up my faith!
Though Babylon rage,
I and I will strive until
the end of my days.
go against society, Rasta courage.

I never give no good vibes
and I never give up no truth.
Never trade my sanity for living in Babylon crew.
Vanity will never drive this man insane.
This man will walk alongside Jah again.
We see all of the pressure to conform today,
And I may sometimes bend,
but only as not to break.

Cause a life of iniquity for laziness' sake
Is a deal with the devil Rasta just can't make.

Chorus

Looking back now upon all of the evidence
400 years and what those years have
really done, we talk of peace but at the
first sign of war. Bredren and bredren and
sistren ain't sistren no more. Without forgiveness
how will any war cease, while the heathen rage
Rastaman sitting at ease. No one will move a
muscle for some moral justice and with no justice they won't live.

What's the Story, Morning Glory?

 

In the Victorian meaning of flowers, morning glory signifies love, affection or mortality. 

The flowers blossom in the morning and die by afternoon or nightfall, making them representative of the sometimes fleeting nature of affection, and of unrequited love.

But the vine produces new flowers every day during its growth season, representing the renewable nature of love.

Images of morning glory vines can be found on Victorian headstones, symbolizing mortality, mourning, the shortness of life or the hope of resurrection

The star-shaped flower is also symbolic of a single day each year in which the Chinese lovers, Chien Niu and Chih Neu, are allowed to meet. 

According to Chinese lore, Chien Niu was a boy star who was entrusted to take care of water buffalo in the heavenly kingdom. 

A girl star named Chih Neu was put in charge of seamstress duties. 

They fell in love, and the romance caused them to neglect their duties.

In anger, the gods forced the young lovers to be separated on both sides of the Silver River and allowed them to meet only once during the whole year.

Am having a hard job settling to work I promised to complete... 

Feeling antsy... restless...unrequited! (not in love, but in life!)

Easy-peasey writing job, promising plentiful greenbacks, need the moolah, 

Heart's not in it... 

What does that say?

Self sabotage?

Can beggars be choosers?

Can I convince myself that 'the ends justify the means'?

Or is it time to 'walk the talk' some more and say "yes" only to things that make my heart sing?

Follow the path with heart?

 

LYRICS: 

All your dreams are made
When you're chained to (your) mirror with (your) razor blade
Today's the day that all the world will see
Another sunny afternoon
(I'm) walking to the sound of your favorite tune
Tomorrow never knows what it doesn't know too soon

Need a little time to wake up
Need a little time to wake up wake up
Need a little time to wake up
Need a little time to rest your mind
You know you should so I guess you might as well

What's the story morning glory?
Well
(you) need a little time to wake up
Wake up well
What's the story morning glory?
Well
Need a little time to wake up
Wake up

(Cos) all your dreams are made
Now you're chained to the mirror with your razor blade
Today's the day that all the world will see
(It's) another sunny afternoon
Yeah I'm walking to the sound of my favorite tune
Tomorrow doesn't know what it doesn't know too soon

Need a little time to wake up
Need a little time to wake up
Need a little time to wake up
Need a little time to rest your mind
You know you should so I guess that you might as well

What's the story morning glory?
Well
Need a little time to wake up, wake up
Well
What's the story morning glory?
Well

Need a little time to wake up, wake up
Well
What's the story morning glory?
Well
Need a little time to wake up, wake up
Well
What's the story morning glory?
Well? 

 

I just don't want to help perpetuate

the current paradigm any longer...

I need a
spiritually,

environmentally, 

socially, 

economically,

enlightened
PATRON

who will support
my writing
and activism work!!! 

Roll up, roll up
whoever,
wherever,
you are...

The Time Is Now!

 

 

 

Earth Tribe Rhythms...

One of the first CDs I bought when I started on my shamanic journey was Earth Tribe Rhythms, by Brent Lewis...

Here's a sampling of his genius: