Warwick Avenue
Posted by Pamela Leavey on August 26, 2010
Melody Gardot: Your Heart Is As Black As Night
Posted by Pamela Leavey on August 1, 2010
Melody Gardot is one of my favorite new singers. Here she is performing “Your Heart Is As Black As Night”:
Not only is Gardot a fabulous singer and entertainer, but her story of using music as therapy after a tragic accident in which she suffered serious head and spinal injuries is amazing.
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Posted by Pamela Leavey on July 16, 2010
John Trudell and Bad Dog perform See The Woman:
There’s more John Trudell and Bad Dog here on YouTube.
Tina Turner: Better Be Good To Me (Live) 1990
Posted by Pamela Leavey on April 7, 2010
Tina Turner performs “Better Be Good To Me” live, 1990:
Quote of the Day: Being Related
Posted by Pamela Leavey on March 19, 2010
“Without relationship, there is no existence: to be is to be related…. Most of us do not seem to realize this-that the world is my relationship with others, whether one or many. My problem is that of relationship. What I am, that I project; and obviously, if I do not understand myself, the whole of relationship is one of confusion in ever-widening circles. So, relationship becomes of extraordinary importance, not with the so-called mass, the crowd, but in the world of my family and friends, however small that may be-my relationship with my wife, my children, my neighbor. In a world of vast organizations, vast mobilizations of people, mass movements, we are afraid to act on a small scale; we are afraid to be little people clearing up our own patch. We say to ourselves, “What can I personally do? I must join a mass movement in order to reform.” On the contrary, real revolution takes place not through mass movements but through the inward revaluation of relationship-that alone is real reformation, a radical, continuous revolution. We are afraid to begin on a small scale. Because the problem is so vast, we think we must meet it with large numbers of people, with a great organization, with mass movements. Surely, we must begin to tackle the problem on a small scale, and the small scale is the “me” and the “you.” When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love. Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action which produces further confusion, further misery. We fill our hearts with blueprints for world reform and do not look to that one resolving factor which is love.” ~~ J. Krishnamurti, ”The Book of Life.”
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Posted by Pamela Leavey on March 18, 2010
“Surely, only in relationship the process of what I am unfolds, does it not? Relationship is a mirror in which I see myself as I am; but as most of us do not like what we are, we begin to discipline, either positively or negatively, what we perceive in the mirror of relationship. That is, I discover something in relationship, in the action of relationship, and I do not like it. So, I begin to modify what I do not like, what I perceive as being unpleasant. I want to change it-which means I already have a pattern of what I should be. The moment there is a pattern of what I should be, there is no comprehension of what I am. The moment I have a picture of what I want to be, or what I should be, or what I ought not to be-a standard according to which I want to change myself-then, surely, there is no comprehension of what I am at the moment of relationship.I think it is really important to understand this, for I think this is where most of us go astray. We do not want to know what we actually are at a given moment in relationship. If we are concerned merely with self-improvement, there is no comprehension of ourselves, of what is.” ~~ J. Krishnamurti, “The Book of Life.”
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