Thoughts: RFK – “We must admit…”
Well, thanks…
As people say in Canada, this is the week of American Thanksgiving (instead of October’s version), but any day, it’s as good time as any to give thanks, and feel the warm glow of gratitude.
I hope you have a good week, no matter where you are.
And I just wanted to let you know it makes me feel warm to have you checking out this blog (or on the Facebook page), the way you do. I’m glad for the comments & the emails & the notes & the feedback you give me, and most of all, I’m glad we get to do this together.
I hope you find & feel & allow light & love to surround you…
In warmth & light,
Brother Ian
Poetry of music: Born at the Right Time, with Paul Simon
https://youtu.be/qMpoNxV02k0
Thoughts: The Peace of Wild Things, with Wendell Berry
The Peace of Wild Things
by Wendell Berry
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Whales: Vroom! Luna hangs with the boat & makes motor noises….
Did you see The Whale? This is Luna (the killer whale in the story) in a minute vid, imitating a boat motor…..
Poetry of music: Save the Earth, with a few of our friends…
Can one song change the world? Paul McCartney, Jon Bon Jovi, Fergie, and others are finding out.
You’ve probably never hung out on the moon.
But if you were to, that aerial view of Earth would surely get you thinking. It puts everything into perspective.
You’d probably be thinking: Huh, the Earth kind of looks like a little marble from here. Or, whoa, that little blue marble is home to everyone I’ve ever known — and everyone I haven’t.
When you take time to zoom out to see the bigger picture of the world, you realize that we all have one important thing in common: our home.
It’s that thinking that has some of the world’s most popular musicians coming together to sing about the home we all share and one major problem it’s facing: climate change.
Ahead of the Paris Climate Change Conference in December, superstars from Paul McCartney to Colbie Caillat to Sean Paul to Fergie are calling on our world leaders to protect our Earth. You can join them.
Give “Love Song to the Earth” a listen, and download it here. You may just help change the world. As the campaign says:
“Every time the song is purchased, streamed, or shared, the royalties go directly towards the efforts of Friends of the Earth to keep fossil fuels in the ground and lower carbon emissions, and to the work of the U.N. Foundation to inspire international action on climate change.”
A song that earns royalties for the Earth?! That’s gotta be a first.
It’s too easy to get caught up talking about our differences. What if we started talking about our biggest similarity instead?
We may just be able to help reverse climate change. Together!
Posted, with thanks to Upworthy
About Brother Ian
Over the centuries, Brother Ian has been collecting stories & information & discourses for the purpose of elevating the human condition as needed, dissecting it when necessary, and building the case for hope.
In the spirit of noting that organized crime, organized baseball, organized labour, and organized religion tend to engender controversy & occasional discord, I promise to be neither organized or critical of those who are.