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Every Drop Counts Chicago

In the wake of recent tragic events in Haiti. I have been working tirelessly with a group of other incredible individuals to organize a huge benefit concert here in Chicago. In the midst of trying to create this event over the course of a few days we have been incorporated and are now working to provide water to Haiti by fundraising as much money as possible over the next couple of weeks. It came to me that there was no way I could simply watch the horrifying news in the comfort of my home and not help in some way, shape, or form. I am asking all of my blog followers and friends to please follow our Every Drop Counts blog. Please donate to our efforts. Haiti can not survive this great devastation without our coming together... If you are in the Chicago area, please come out and support our Benefit Concert on January 31st, 2010.

Sade's NEW MUSIC VIDEO!!

I am certain that many Sade fans across the world have been waiting for the release of her first debut music video as much as they are awaiting her new album release. Sade could have just stared at the camera for the whole video and I would have been pleased. I am truly a fan of her music and persona. She is gorgeously talented and miraculously full of soul and depth. Her voice is a rather peculiar instrument that confronts the spirit of sound and vibration. I am always moved by her music and she has been the soundtrack to my life. My mother was always a huge Sade fan and so I learned of my love for music through her having been raised with Sade songs playing in the background of my childhood. Often times people think of her somber tone as a downer but for so many reasons it allowed me to channel the voice of a soul, to understand the complexity of emotion in our existence, and to be grateful for true poetry. I am delighted and honored to be sharing her music with you all. I truly hope one day I can collaborate with this woman. Perhaps that is me dreaming exponentially but I rather to dream above anything at all. It sustains my hope and passion. For those of you that recall a couple of months ago, I posted a song that Charles Hamilton and I did together called "Rosado" using the infamous Sade-sound. Look it up. But for now I'd like to share with you all the link to Sade's new music video for her song, SOLDIER OF LOVE. Watch video here!!

my new anthem.

i absolutely love this woman and her voice. i am sooo excited about her new upcoming album. she is my favorite. never fails to make incredible music.

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A LITANY FOR SURVIVAL

For those of us who live at the shoreline
standing upon the constant edges of decision
crucial and alone
for those of us who cannot indulge
the passing dreams of choice
who love in doorways coming and going
in the hours between dawns
looking inward and outward
at once before and after
seeking a now that can breed
futures
like bread in our children's mouths
so their dreams will not reflect
the death of ours:

For those of us
who were imprinted with fear
like a faint line in the center of our foreheads
learning to be afraid with our mother's milk
for by this weapon
this illusion of some safety to be found
the heavy-footed hoped to silence us
For all of us
this instant and this triumph
We were never meant to survive.

And when the sun rises we are afraid
it might not remain
when the sun sets we are afraid
it might not rise in the morning
when our stomachs are full we are afraid
of indigestion
when our stomachs are empty we are afraid
we may never eat again
when we are loved we are afraid
love will vanish
when we are alone we are afraid
love will never return
and when we speak we are afraid
our words will not be heard
nor welcomed
but when we are silent
we are still afraid

So it is better to speak
remembering
we were never meant to survive

- Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn

her voice is butterfly and moonshine