Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance

"There will come a time when everybody
Who is lonely will be free...
To sing & dance & love

There will come a time when every evil
That we know will be an evil...
That we can rise above

Who cares if hair is long or short
Or sprayed or partly grayed...
We know that hair ain't where it's at
(there will come a time when you won't
Even be ashamed if you are fat!)
Wah wah-wah wah
There will come a time when everybody
Who is lonely will be free...
To sing & dance & love (dance and love)
There will come a time when every evil
That we know will be an evil...
That we can rise above (rise above)
Who cares if you're so poor you can't afford
To buy a pair of mod a go-go stretch-elastic pants...
There will come a time when you can even
Take your clothes off when you dance"
Frank Zappa

Robert King - Angola (Series: Alcatraz)

PASSION!!!! Isabel Allende

Beyond Immortality

When Leonard Bernstein describes Beethoven's

  "Ode to Joy" he offers it as a 

"A Universality of Thought, of Human Brotherhood, Freedom and Love..." but how does Beethoven move beyond what  Shakespeare describes as Life? How does Beethoven remove the rope of what Mr. Shakespeare calls a "Mortal Coil?"

"Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,"

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And, by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep
To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub,
 

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil..."

"For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of disprized love, the law's delay,
and yet Mr. Shakespeare offers...

"Must give us pause. There's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life."

"Just like every night has it's dawn
Just like every cowboy sings his sad, sad song
Every rose has it's thorn"

 

That's the MAGIC that Beethoven shares with us. 

He gives us "Hope" and "Innocence" 

gives us back our "Grace" and 

our "Trust"  because when you really "HEAR" 

the "Ode to Joy" what Leonard Bernstein says rings true...Beethoven's

9th symphony has a "Purity and Directness" that reminds us 

of what The Honor of being Human really means!

Homer said it best...

  “The Gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.”— The Illiad

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"of the people, by the people, for the people..." For obvious reasons I can't send this to all of my best friends...it would or could appear I'm electing to overthrow the government...but isn't it my duty? Hasn't it also been written "We hold these truths to be self evident..." yes, I'm sure these ring strong with you as well. Of course I take liberties...I paraphrase, delete, omit, include what I want to share...I have always loved these words...I hope we choose to keep them strong, healthy,vibrant and ALIVE! IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Declaration of INDEPENDENCE! We got CONSTITUTION too! We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America

http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/

Innocence Project

This is a cause I have wanted to help with for a very long time. Therefore, I would also like to encourage you. Donate money if you can. Remember those lost and forgotten. Remember that it is just as easy to become forgotten as it is to remember. I can't say it better so I won't.