Here comes the sun and I say.., its alright … George Harrison
.. and the sunflowers …
Flower power , power flower of love … Stevie Wonder …
in a glorious celebration of musiculturarts .. and the rumors and conditions of peace …
Stop de war … increase de peace … violence only leave us in silence, me a tell dem … Shabba Ranks
If you have been patient enough to bear with this blog column … thank you .. walk in beauty, and axé …
Earthy context …. cataclysmic environmental disaster bubbling in the Gulf, and the World Cup … what respective spectacles of the moment …
watching (muted) USA England at the moment .. cannot figure out what fan-generated sound-maker is making that amazing/distressing droning sound … its less “annoying” via Univision … just clipped a NYT /Clive Mason (distant relation?) photo of Siphiwe Tshambala delivering a ninja-like balazo, to make it 1-0 for RSA over Mejico … a hard fought game … again … amidst a global backdrop of epic pairs of opposites ….
South Africa spent nearly 6 billion to host a ball game .. THE ball game … while nearly 1 in 10 South Africans are afflicted with HIV/AIDS … and we are busy producing /buying/using petroleum-using vehicles as if oil and nature/time will never “run out” … to the tune of BILLIONS in private profit taking in direct inverse proportion to perilous environmental degradation ….
Life is like a dream and you are the dreamer … Lucid Living / Timothy Freke
I have spent this year laboring deeper, and longer as a public school teacher… and worldOneradio producer … its all ONE thing for me now .. I am honestly not quite sure, after 12 full time years, if I, mi organismo, can endure the public school system … swelling class sizes, institutional corporatisms, educational status quo, posing that we are all about reform, blazing trails … daily I have been immersed with keen, social action-aspiring and thoughtful (and too-often, apathetic, unsupported) youth, many of whom I admired and got to hug at graduation yesterday … and then battled in air hockey at Grad Night last night … ( Lisa Schultz! looking forward to a an overdue rematch) writing protests appeals to Clear Channel/ Cox etc… where else to be? …
Look up Hannah … Look up ! Charlie Chaplin
It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood … if you are in, or can make your
way to the neighborhood , won’t you be our neighbor ( here on the SF East Bay Rim) ? …
It was a good day in LA ….. throwin up a peace sign …. WAR ..
please see the website for full details www.worldoneradio.org … and if you can be here with us July 3,4 … e komo mai …
I am particularly pleased to have this opportunity to gather these artists in this 12th annual festival circle …. folkies, blue grassers, gamelan, jazz, reggae, berber, hip hop and latino-tropicalistas …visual, and creative artists and carnavaleros .. youth and elders … Fletcher Oakes’ and Heidi Rand’s floral mandalas, Lulu’s and Orange Crush’s soaring flags, Corey tipping his high hat while Michael Roman’s rides the symbols …Marc Canepa’s metal arts totems …
The City of El Cerrito has been stellar, and committed to an enduring vision and community celebration, despite a harrowing budget climate … and we have overcome many obstacles and hurdles already …. It couldn’t happen without a lotta help from our friends and like-minded community-enlightened-enterprising sponsors ..
Gracias a la vida … que nos ha dado tanto … Mercedes Sosa …
Festival season is here in North America … music festivals abound in the Cities .. to help folks shake their beauty and the blues … healings of sorts , certainly …. camping festivals in the country and Sierras … Pow Wows in the heartlands and plains …. to wit … the first annual, and inaugural Richmond Community is June 26th this month … which will affirm more than spaghetti straps and cold beer …. ( with all due respect to cut offs, crop tops and flip-flops) …
Whether its red white and blue and/or red, gold, and green or all the colors and tastes in between …
One love, one heart, let’s get together and feel alright … Robert Nesta
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has… Margaret Mead
What’s on your radar this summer, on or off the beaten path?
Vips … absolutely enraptured here this week with Emerson Quartet renderings of Bach and Mozart, the soundtrack to Soloist, mixed and assorted Ibiza-centric / Pacha vibez ( Kiko Navarro), Alice Coultrane ( Universal Consciousness) , Pharoah Sanders ( Jewles of Thought) Best of Brazilica and African Beats ( each a triple disc compilation), and Bhood( Bollyhood sic: Bolly wood+ Hip Hop ) … Chico Trujillo ( Barbes records) is spinning right now in our salon, eliciting peals from my gorgeous and beloved wife, down the hall … on so on and so on, and scoobie .. yo0bie knowin the rest = : ) ~
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