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Things have been crazy for the last few months or so. So many flashing things trying to vie for my attention and it has been hard to keep track of most everything -love, hope, dreams. Not that it is easy to do usually.
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Make Some Noise
This wasn’t really part of the plan, but since this track is out there we wanted to let you hear it here first, or maybe second. Enjoy
Mike
Bliss
In December 2008, I was surfing the web and found a program which allowed you to send an email to your “future self”. At the time, it was a ray of hope for me, a way for me to look to the future; a way to even acknowledge there would be one. I had just gone through a heart wrenching, hideous experience that no human should have to deal with and I was at such a low point that I felt like dying would be divine relief.
So I emailed myself.
The email only had one line. It said “it will get better”.
Did it? Yes, I was right. It did get better. But, I think a big part of that was because I expected it to. If I hadn’t, I shudder to think what would have happened.
‘Better’ is such a broad and general term. I still have ugly moments, as is normal as a human. I still find pain in certain aspects of life. I still am just as neurotic, I can be petty and passive-aggressive. But, time and distance from that very dark point in my life has allowed me to realize, with a glad heart, that I was right : It gets better.
I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you can learn to appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so that you can eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so that better things can fall together.
-Marilyn Monroe
with thanks to my good friend Diana G.
“I like it in the city when two worlds collide…You get the people and the government, Everybody taking different sides.
Shows that we ain’t gonna stand shit
Shows that we are united
Shows that we ain’t gonna take it…”
Adele, Hometown Glory
To the Senators and Representatives of the United States House and Senate:
I understand how difficult it must be for you, as human beings, up on that big bad hill. You’ve come through family legacy, you’ve come through hard-won campaigns. You’ve come through blood, sweat, tears and glad-handing. You’re there and you deserve that shit.
It’s so easy, up on that hill, to think to yourself, well, I’ve made it; I deserve to be here, and what I do here is up to me.
God, You’re so wrong.
I digress. What you’re right about is the fact that you are in a place of honor and that however you got there, you’re there because you were better than someone else. But what you fail to remember, what you should never forget; is that you’ve been elected.
The people who elected you might not understand WHY they elected you. They might not understand who you are, personally; they might not know that you’re going through a terrible divorce because you’re in the closet, or that you have a nasty coke habit, or that you really don’t understand legislature and frankly are only there because your daddy put you there (not naming names). The fact remains, however, that it doesn’t matter what you’re going through. The legislative branch of government was created for something far beyond that. The responsibility is in your hands to put aside all of that bullshit and realize that you were put where you are to make the best decisions for THE PEOPLE.
Remember that little speech; the Gettysburg address? “And that government of the people, for the people, by the people shall not perish from this earth.” Will you be the generation of legislators that make it perish?
I understand this is a great responsibility. But, let me speak plainly to you. This time in our country’s history should not be trifled with. This is a time of crisis. People are starving. Children are going without proper food or education. People are severely underemployed (a statistic that does not go into the overall unemployment rate) -millions are struggling to make ends meet with several jobs. Your country is suffering. Don’t waste our time puffing your chests out and arguing over how much tax cuts the rich will get. It won’t make a difference, friends. Overseas jobs don’t have a bearing on tax cuts.
Get real and understand who you’re serving and who put you there. This is not a joke. This is not a dress rehearsal. You might be comfortable when you go home and get into bed at night, but don’t forget: you have 310 million people in your country looking to you to be their guide and assistant in making sure that they and their families don’t starve to death.
Remember the fundamentals, all:
“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.”
Remember the fundamentals. They’re there, we just need to institute them.
With wavering respect,
Diane Bradley
Sometimess you realize how little you knew. Sometimes you realize how little you know. Sometimes you realize life is so complex, there isn’t a one person or a one thing you have to do…it’s not about one at all, in fact. It’s about being happy. Finding your happiness at any point, that’s the point.
Take me to that old familiar place
Take me to memories we won’t erase
Take me to all that we had
Good and the bad
I’ll never forget you
I’ll never let you go
I’ll never forget you
I’ll always remember, I hope you know
Let the record reflect the records we set
Best foot forward with every step
And let’s push towards it, never regress
And let’s remember, if ever we get
Down, the places that we came from ’round
And all the good times on the bad side of town
The upside of bad, flip it upside down
Came from the bottom but we up high now
Believe, and from this view we achieved
We looked back at the rules we received
And how we broke those, dismantled and rewrote those
And the ghost still alive in the photos
Sounds of the summer, day and go wise
Cold wind blowin’ through a city on fire
Moments of the past, came here to find you
Not to relive them, just to remind you
Take to that old familiar place
Take me to memories we won’t erase
Take me to all that we had
Good and the bad
I’ll never forget you
I’ll never let you go
I’ll never forget you
I’ll always remember, I hope you know
And let the evidence show, the future’s so bright
It’s never been more, not like tonight
We walk into the glow, right into the light
The past all around us, the time of our life
The first love kisses, the broke heart disses
This is just like a first-class ticket
Back, to the first written rap
The crumbled-up paper and the pen with no cap
The hand-me-down clothes and the unturned hat
The hookers on the corner and the kids sellin’ crack
The needles in the yard where we used to play catch
Stories from the project we could never go at
Or to, these are shades of my youth
Trials of a child, everything truth
Moments of the past, comin’ back to find us
Not to relive them, just to remind us
Take to that old familiar place
Take me to memories we won’t erase
Take me to all that we had
Good and the bad
I’ll never forget you
I’ll never let you go
I’ll never forget you
I’ll always remember, I hope you know
Everything cherished, remembered in my heart
So you will never perish, you will never part
I tell ‘em all about you, drummin’ in the park
We put you in the ground, but I see you in the stars
Go’n, take a bow, a round of applause
The best that ever, always ready we are
Love always shines, that’s how I’ll find you
In case you forgot, I hope this reminds you
Take to that old familiar place
Take me to memories we won’t erase
Take me to all that we had
Good and the bad
I’ll never forget you
I’ll never let you go
I’ll never forget you
I’ll always remember, I hope you know
