On March 23 8:30 PM people in cities all over the world will do something as a symbol of hope. They will turn off their lights in their homes for an hour. Leaders of cities around the world will switch off power to monuments and buildings. Companies will turn off power to entire skyscrapers. Will you?
Life philosophy according to Tam… We are all, everyone of us spinning on this little orb, people who live, experience joy, have pain, grieve, celebrate, and love. We are all the same… want the same things (happiness, our kids to be safe, to live the best lives we can, to laugh, to love)… not matter where we live. Borders and boundaries are just physical structures. Ethnicity is just genetic. Religion is faith. Sexual orientation is meaningless. Spirit, the human spirit, is boundless. People everywhere go to work, love their kids, deal with tragedy, pet their dogs or cats or birds or rabbits, want a place to call home, live with their own flaws, and want to be with the people they care about as much as they can. Everyone, everywhere, wants a good life. We are all living every day the best we know how. We are all, everywhere, one. Period. The end.
Stop this day and night with me, and you shall possess the origin of all poems; You shall possess the good of the earth and sun—(there are millions of suns left;) You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books; You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me: You shall listen to all sides, and filter them from yourself. ~Walt Whitman
Words From Neil
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself. ~ Neil Gaiman
Frightened Rabbit, Goldfrapp, Crash Kings, Bruno Mars, Badly Drawn Boy, The Airborne Toxic Event, Bright Eyes, The Avett Brothers, James, Rob Thomas, The Devlins, Bell X1, Pink, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Van Morrison, Cher (the older stuff), The Swell Season, Ben Harper, Matt Nathanson, Ryan Adams, Sara Bareillis, Pink Martini, Ella Fitzgerald, Dixie Chicks, Billie Holiday, Blue October, Patty Griffin, Jon McLaughlin, Alexi Murdoch, Landon Pigg, Marc Broussard, Brett Dennen, Brandi Carlile, Sonia Dada, James Morrison, Antigone Rising, Gomez, Scissor Sisters, Melissa Etheridge, Paolo Nutini, Indigo Girls, Ray LaMontagne, Amos Lee, Uh Huh Her, Missy Higgins, Anouk, Duffy, The Frames, Arcade Fire, The Beatles, David Gray