Since 2007 I have found Playing for Change — an organization that brings people from around the world together to make music together, their different instruments and instruments blending together beautifully — a glorious beacon of joy, hope, and goodness. So, I’d like to use them to deliver a broadside against the sheer meanness of today and the year that has led to it.
“About ten years ago my town suffered a terrible terrorist atrocity. There has been a divide in our country which has unsettled the nation for such a long time…and I decided soon after this atrocity that I would try and bring people closer together. “
Love, rescue me.
Come forth and speak to me.
Raise me up, and don’t
let me fall…
No man is my enemy
My own hands imprison me.
I say — “Love, rescue me.”
The group singing above was organized in response to an explosion in Northern Ireland which killed over thirty people, two of them unborn babies, and wounded hundreds more.
A few more songs of defiant joy and love abundant:
excellent! unity beats division…
Good luck with the election today!