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"We're living in a time where everything is changing... where there's no use in belittling your rival or putting your head in the sand and saying 'I don't want to know.' It's much better to know." In Eleanor Roosevelt's book You Learn By Living (1960) she tackles the subject of hope and effort and belief and the power of faith. "Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, `It can't be done.'" Eleanor Roosevelt is widely regarded as one of the finest ambassadors the USA has ever put forth. Her words and wisdom resonate to this day.

A heartfelt Wynonna Judd sharing and performing a country classic in connection to the higher source that carries us through times that test our faith and trust.... "When the quiet stillness of the night comes, you ask yourself... is this what it's all about?" : Wynonna sings I Can Only Imagine: "not preachin... just teachin"

:Dinah Washington sings All of Me at the Newport Jazz Festival 1958:

Today we march on. :Boyz in da Hood Waiting for Music Class: A new song begins. Into a higher conversation. Awake and aware.

There's been a lot of talk about Abraham Lincoln and his presidency circuluating. In the air. The reasons are obvious. He was statesman. He was a leader standing on the cusp of an uncertain future. He presided after a war that pitted brother against brother. He attempted to tide the rift of a long fought battle and seemingly insurmountable differences of opinion. He delivered the United States into a new era. On this election day. I post the last paragraph of Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address, delivered March 4, 1861... "We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." Lincoln's First Inaugural Address (Top T...

:Central Park's - Poet's Walk: Enjoy! WHAT TO REMEMBER WHEN WAKING In that first hardly noticed moment to which you wake, coming back to this life from the other more secret, moveable and frighteningly honest world where everything began, there is a small opening into the new day which closes the moment you begin your plans. What you can plan is too small for you to live. What you can live wholeheartedly will make plans enough for the vitality hidden in your sleep. To be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others. To remember the other world in this world is to live in your true inheritance. You are not a troubled guest on this earth, you are not an accident amidst other accidents you were invited from another and greater night than the one from which you have just emerged. Now, looking through the slanting light of the morning window toward the mountain presence of everything that can be, what urgency calls you to your one love? What shape wa...