A shorter post, this time, to bridge what has come before & what is yet to come….
Those of you that have been reading along this week will know that part of the impetus for moving this blog, as part of a bigger project, from The Stage of Percolating Ideas into The Tangible, was awakening on Monday to the startling, sorrowful realization that The Trump Inauguration was indeed imminent.
I do not exaggerate when I say that for me this has resulted in a state of mourning, so when I set out on a walk that day to clear my head, I chose to dress in black, just as I had on the day after the election, except for this pendant in shades of vibrant purple & electric blue. This necklace, purchased in the company of dear friends– fellow U2 fans– who were visiting Seattle this summer, reminds me that astonishing connections across space & time are possible, reminds me that there are so many wonderful folks who I’ve come to know through the power that music has to bring people together, reminds me that we are all so very connected on this one planet that we all share.
One planet, where we are all reliant on clean air & water, where we hold hopes for a vibrant livable future for ourselves, for our children, for all of the children of the world, no matter where they happen to have been born.
The next post will elaborate on these ideas, but for now I’ll close with a couple of songs that speak to the reality I see, that we *are* all one, that we are in so very many ways so very interdependent, and that many of us DO wish to Carry Each Other. (I’d forgotten until recently that U2 actually played at President Obama’s inauguration in 2009– not a perfect presidency to be sure, but it’s pretty heart-wrenching to have seen his messages of HOPE and “Si si puede/ yes we can” replaced by the hate-filled diatribes of Trump.)
Plus another for good measure, a joyous tune introduced to me by My Sweet Fella during our courtship, celebrating how we the inhabitants of this planet are indeed ONE…. ❤ ❤
The Letters of Love 