An extinct breed, going
around telling your story,
on tape recorders so you can
be sold like a burger,
9.95.
I'd buy your book, remember
your plight in Europe
in WWII.
If WWIII happens, would you
remember me?
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
My familia
Some people don't know
how to rock
the boat,
myopic at best.
You try walking on the water,
and you can run with the
rest.
how to rock
the boat,
myopic at best.
You try walking on the water,
and you can run with the
rest.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Blinds
We had silver, chrome,
blinds in my first home
on Carriage Lane.
They showed a peek of
grapevines,
some fruit trees,
and a deck.
A lot for a little
girl to avoid.
The only time I went
out there was at
Easter, to catch eggs
before they hatched
into dreams.
blinds in my first home
on Carriage Lane.
They showed a peek of
grapevines,
some fruit trees,
and a deck.
A lot for a little
girl to avoid.
The only time I went
out there was at
Easter, to catch eggs
before they hatched
into dreams.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Burqah
I waited on my knees,
before Allah.
The call me,
the clothes Muslim.
I hear a call to prayer
and I enter in and bow
down.
I eat with them
and they become me,
wanting school,
an earring,
a shoe left
for Muhammad.
before Allah.
The call me,
the clothes Muslim.
I hear a call to prayer
and I enter in and bow
down.
I eat with them
and they become me,
wanting school,
an earring,
a shoe left
for Muhammad.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Paris Review
I want to publish this in the Paris Review.
MontmartRe
Henri de Toulouse-LAutrec.
Born in the Pyrenees of France.
You were the firstborn,
and studied Degas and Manet.
Descendant of aristocracy,
the counts, and cousins were
your parents.
Producing a man small of stature,
prolific in nature,
and nouveau was never the same.
"Le vieux con!"
You were not an old fool,
in my eyes.
By Gisella Perezarce
Copyright 2009
MontmartRe
Henri de Toulouse-LAutrec.
Born in the Pyrenees of France.
You were the firstborn,
and studied Degas and Manet.
Descendant of aristocracy,
the counts, and cousins were
your parents.
Producing a man small of stature,
prolific in nature,
and nouveau was never the same.
"Le vieux con!"
You were not an old fool,
in my eyes.
By Gisella Perezarce
Copyright 2009
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Frogs
My Grandma Laura was known as the
queen of the frogs.
You may notice I use queen a lot but I come
from aristocracy.
She had a society of frogs and her
deathbed consisted of inducting the officers
and crowning them her successors.
Surrounded in her morado room with
yellow roses and paintings of Renoir,
who smiled back at the Queen of the Frogs.
I gave her a couple of frogs and others did as well.
She smiled at her Prince Tom,
who she wrote about frogs to,
when he was a boy.
The alter after her death, had colorful,
tin frogs. For a royal procession
of green ambience that led her to
her court of friends.
In Memorium Grandma Laura one year passing.
queen of the frogs.
You may notice I use queen a lot but I come
from aristocracy.
She had a society of frogs and her
deathbed consisted of inducting the officers
and crowning them her successors.
Surrounded in her morado room with
yellow roses and paintings of Renoir,
who smiled back at the Queen of the Frogs.
I gave her a couple of frogs and others did as well.
She smiled at her Prince Tom,
who she wrote about frogs to,
when he was a boy.
The alter after her death, had colorful,
tin frogs. For a royal procession
of green ambience that led her to
her court of friends.
In Memorium Grandma Laura one year passing.
Vogue
Do you remember the girdles that Madonna
used to wear over her suits in "Vogue?"
I used to wear girdles, too.
Just one, I bought it at a thrift store
as an eighteen year old with a bigger, belly.
Its funny, I have a smaller one now and it is
fifteen years later.
Smaller belly, not girdle.
I don't need to wear Spandex under my dresses.
I occasionaly wear tights if the dress is tight
or too short.
That is the beauty of age.
The ability to be free.
used to wear over her suits in "Vogue?"
I used to wear girdles, too.
Just one, I bought it at a thrift store
as an eighteen year old with a bigger, belly.
Its funny, I have a smaller one now and it is
fifteen years later.
Smaller belly, not girdle.
I don't need to wear Spandex under my dresses.
I occasionaly wear tights if the dress is tight
or too short.
That is the beauty of age.
The ability to be free.
Gypsy Queen
I was followed by a lot of gypsies for awhile.
I didn't know what to do about it.
The climax was at the Greyhound,
the King was there I found,
and maybe wanted to make me their queen.
Healthcare, cottage industries,
legitimacy in the world swirled
around that possibility.
I got off the bus of like fifty
gypsies of three generations,
and met a man on a street who
confirmed my aspiration.
I said I was family but
without commitment,
they went a way, away.
Now, Madonna is standing up
for the Roma and the woman at
the gym I was mean to
is sufficed in having an
advocate again.
I didn't know what to do about it.
The climax was at the Greyhound,
the King was there I found,
and maybe wanted to make me their queen.
Healthcare, cottage industries,
legitimacy in the world swirled
around that possibility.
I got off the bus of like fifty
gypsies of three generations,
and met a man on a street who
confirmed my aspiration.
I said I was family but
without commitment,
they went a way, away.
Now, Madonna is standing up
for the Roma and the woman at
the gym I was mean to
is sufficed in having an
advocate again.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
A Promotion of the Millenium Development Goals
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Jobs
"Millennium Development Goals-MDG (18 jobs): At the UN Millennium Summit, world leaders put development at the heart of the global agenda with the MDG, setting clear targets for reducing poverty, disease, hunger, illiteracy, environmental degradation & discrimination against women by 2015. On the ground in virtually every developing country, UNDP uses its global network to help the UN system & our partners raise awareness & track progress, while we connect countries to the knowledge & resources they need to achieve these goals
Democratic Governance (66): More countries than ever before are working to build democratic governance. Their challenge is to develop institutions & processes that are more responsive to the needs of ordinary citizens, including the poor. UNDP brings people together within nations & around the world, building partnerships & sharing ways to promote participation, accountability & effectiveness at all levels. We help countries strengthen their electoral & legislative systems, improve access to justice & public administration, & develop a greater capacity to deliver basic services to those most in need
Poverty Reduction (18): Through the MDG, the world is addressing the many dimensions of human development, including the halving by 2015 of the proportion of people living in extreme poverty. Developing countries are working to create their own national poverty eradication strategies based on local needs & priorities. UNDP advocates for these nationally-owned solutions & helps ensure their effectiveness. We sponsor innovative pilot projects; connect countries to global best practices & resources; promote the role of women in development; & bring governments, civil society & outside funders together to coordinate their efforts
Environment & Energy (20): Energy & environment are essential for sustainable development. The poor are disproportionately affected by environmental degradation & lack of access to clean affordable energy services. These issues are also global as climate change, loss of biodiversity & ozone layer depletion cannot be addressed by countries acting alone. UNDP helps countries strengthen their capacity to address these challenges at global, national & community levels, seeking out & sharing best practices, providing innovative policy advice & linking partners through pilot projects that help poor people build sustainable livelihoods
Crisis Prevention & Recovery (22): Many countries are increasingly vulnerable to violent conflicts or natural disasters that can erase decades of development & further entrench poverty & inequality. Through its global network, UNDP seeks out & shares innovative approaches to crisis prevention, early warning & conflict resolution. o wherever the next crisis occurs, UNDP will be there to help bridge the gap between emergency relief & long-term development
HIV/AIDS (3): To prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS & reduce its impact, developing countries need to mobilize all levels of government & civil society. UNDP advocates for placing HIV/AIDS at the centre of national planning & budgets; helps build national capacity to manage initiatives that include people & institutions not usually involved with public heath; & promotes decentralized responses that support community-level action. Because HIV/AIDS is a world-wide problem, UNDP supports these national efforts by offering knowledge, resources & best practices from around the world
Women’s Empowerment (6): Women's empowerment & gender equality are one of the MDG & central to all other development efforts. UNDP works to promote achievement of these goals in all parts of its work, & also administers UNIFEM
Management (59): UNDP's managers, on the ground in 166 countries, share & learn from each other, & draw on best practices from both the public & private sectors, so that we can provide effective management & operational support to achieve development results"
http://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_jobs.cfm
Posted originally by Dr. Ana Isabel of Paraguay
"Millennium Development Goals-MDG (18 jobs): At the UN Millennium Summit, world leaders put development at the heart of the global agenda with the MDG, setting clear targets for reducing poverty, disease, hunger, illiteracy, environmental degradation & discrimination against women by 2015. On the ground in virtually every developing country, UNDP uses its global network to help the UN system & our partners raise awareness & track progress, while we connect countries to the knowledge & resources they need to achieve these goals
Democratic Governance (66): More countries than ever before are working to build democratic governance. Their challenge is to develop institutions & processes that are more responsive to the needs of ordinary citizens, including the poor. UNDP brings people together within nations & around the world, building partnerships & sharing ways to promote participation, accountability & effectiveness at all levels. We help countries strengthen their electoral & legislative systems, improve access to justice & public administration, & develop a greater capacity to deliver basic services to those most in need
Poverty Reduction (18): Through the MDG, the world is addressing the many dimensions of human development, including the halving by 2015 of the proportion of people living in extreme poverty. Developing countries are working to create their own national poverty eradication strategies based on local needs & priorities. UNDP advocates for these nationally-owned solutions & helps ensure their effectiveness. We sponsor innovative pilot projects; connect countries to global best practices & resources; promote the role of women in development; & bring governments, civil society & outside funders together to coordinate their efforts
Environment & Energy (20): Energy & environment are essential for sustainable development. The poor are disproportionately affected by environmental degradation & lack of access to clean affordable energy services. These issues are also global as climate change, loss of biodiversity & ozone layer depletion cannot be addressed by countries acting alone. UNDP helps countries strengthen their capacity to address these challenges at global, national & community levels, seeking out & sharing best practices, providing innovative policy advice & linking partners through pilot projects that help poor people build sustainable livelihoods
Crisis Prevention & Recovery (22): Many countries are increasingly vulnerable to violent conflicts or natural disasters that can erase decades of development & further entrench poverty & inequality. Through its global network, UNDP seeks out & shares innovative approaches to crisis prevention, early warning & conflict resolution. o wherever the next crisis occurs, UNDP will be there to help bridge the gap between emergency relief & long-term development
HIV/AIDS (3): To prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS & reduce its impact, developing countries need to mobilize all levels of government & civil society. UNDP advocates for placing HIV/AIDS at the centre of national planning & budgets; helps build national capacity to manage initiatives that include people & institutions not usually involved with public heath; & promotes decentralized responses that support community-level action. Because HIV/AIDS is a world-wide problem, UNDP supports these national efforts by offering knowledge, resources & best practices from around the world
Women’s Empowerment (6): Women's empowerment & gender equality are one of the MDG & central to all other development efforts. UNDP works to promote achievement of these goals in all parts of its work, & also administers UNIFEM
Management (59): UNDP's managers, on the ground in 166 countries, share & learn from each other, & draw on best practices from both the public & private sectors, so that we can provide effective management & operational support to achieve development results"
http://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_jobs.cfm
Posted originally by Dr. Ana Isabel of Paraguay
Saturday, September 26, 2009
1001 Arabian Knights
I was young when my mom
used to read to me about the Arabian Knights,
a Mexican fighting the Polaris
with no end in sight.
She read about Pinatas and lutes,
Raphael, Degas and taught me
how to play the flute.
I never learned about crossing
the border-
I crossed the schoolyard
to dance and sing-
"Girls in white dresses"...
"These are a few of my favorite things."
Copyright 2009
Gisella Perezarce
used to read to me about the Arabian Knights,
a Mexican fighting the Polaris
with no end in sight.
She read about Pinatas and lutes,
Raphael, Degas and taught me
how to play the flute.
I never learned about crossing
the border-
I crossed the schoolyard
to dance and sing-
"Girls in white dresses"...
"These are a few of my favorite things."
Copyright 2009
Gisella Perezarce
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Pie Jesu
This is taken from the Sarah Brightman website:
Sarah Brightman & Paul Miles-Kingston - Pie Jesu
Sarah
Pie Jesu, pie Jesu, pie Jesu, pie Jesu
Qui tollis peccata mundi
Dona eis requiem, dona eis requiem
Paul
Pie Jesu, pie Jesu, pie Jesu, pie Jesu
both
Qui tollis peccata mundi
Dona eis requiem, dona eis requiem
choir
Agnus Dei, Agnus Dei, Agnus Dei, Agnus Dei
both
Qui tollis peccata mundi
Dona eis requiem, dona eis requiem
choir
Dona eis requiem
both
Sempiternam
choir
Dona eis requiem
both
Sempiternam
Sarah
Requiem
Paul
Sempiternam
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Show: Requiem, 1985
This is the original recording from "Requiem" (1985). I find it interesting to hear how much Sarah's voice has changed in the last ten years. [from the CD-booklet]
Sung with the Winchester Cathedral Choir
Source of the song and different versions by Sarah
From: Surrender, The unexpected songs (1995)
and The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection (1997).
Also on: Sings the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber (1992)
and on: Classics - European release (2006).
At the concert in Edinburgh I saw, and on the video of the same concert in the Royal Albert Hall (September 1997, both), Sarah sang this song with Adam Clarke.
And at the concert as well as on the video of the La Luna tour (2000/2001), Sarah sang Pie Jesu solo.
A solo version appears on: Classics (2001), which basically has the same lyrics.
Source of the lyrics: thanks to Lauren, with the correction that 'dona' is spelled with one 'n' [which comes, wrote Lanny, from "donare", meaning "give, grant, ..."] and 'tollis' is with double 'l' [thanks to Fernando A. Batista de Almeida, who added that it is "from Latin verb: tollo, tollis, tollere, sustuli, sublatum means To Take away"].
Some info on the background and origin of the song
Bjorn Handeland wrote me that this song, and in fact Andrew Lloyd Webber's entire "Requiem", is dedicated to the victims of the conflict in Northern Ireland. Mark DeCain, however, wrote me that in the liner notes on the CD to 'Requiem" it states that the work was composed by Webber in sorrow over the loss of his father.
At the concert in Edinburgh I saw, and on the video of the same concert in the Royal Albert Hall (September 1997, both), Sarah dedicated the song to all those who lost loved ones.
And at the concert as well as on the video of the La Luna tour (2000/2001), Sarah said it dedicated to all those who lost their lives due to political conflicts.
Sam Bendahan wrote me that "Pie Jesu" is part of a "Requiem Mass" written by Tommaso da Celano (circa 1200-1270). It has been put to music many times, the most famous version of which is by Gabriel Fauré and the most recent by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Translation into English
Lauren also gave me an English translation of the Latin (with a correction thanks to Walter H. Padilla RamÃrez); see also the translation of "In Paradisum" for some remarks.
Latin English
Pie Jesu
Qui tollis peccata mundi
Dona eis requiem
Agnus Dei
Dona eis requiem sempiternam
Merciful Jesus
Who takes away the sins of the world
Grant them rest
Lamb of God
Grant them everlasting rest
Fernando's translation reads:
Pie Jesu, qui tollis peccata mundi
Dona eis requiem.
Merciful Jesus, you take away the sins of the world
(eternal) rest grant unto them.
Sarah herself gave another translation at the Royal Albert Hall concert mentioned above:
Sweet Jesus, who takes away the sins
of the world, grant us peace
An exact translation of a song such as this is clearly difficult to give: it is the feeling that counts most. The lyrics and translation into English given in the CD-booklet of Voice of an Angel (1998) from Charlotte Church, for example, are:
Latin lyrics English translation
Pie Jesu, Pie Jesu,
Pie Jesu, Pie Jesu,
Qui tollis peccata mundi;
Dona eis requiem,
Dona eis requiem.
Agnus Dei, Agnus Dei,
Agnus Dei, Agnus Dei,
Qui tollis peccata mundi;
Dona eis requiem,
Dona eis requiem.
Sempiternam, sempiternam requiem.
Lord, have mercy,
Lord, have mercy,
You who take away the sins of the world;
Grant them peace,
Grant them peace.
Lamb of God, Lamb of God,
Lamb of God, Lamb of God,
You who take away the sins of the world;
Grant them peace,
Grant them peace.
Peace everlasting, everlasting.
The last line is actually "Everlasting, everlasting peace" of course. By the way, the translation of "requiem" as "peace" is, religiously speaking, not really correct: it is better to use "rest", as in the first translation.
Sarah Brightman & Paul Miles-Kingston - Pie Jesu
Sarah
Pie Jesu, pie Jesu, pie Jesu, pie Jesu
Qui tollis peccata mundi
Dona eis requiem, dona eis requiem
Paul
Pie Jesu, pie Jesu, pie Jesu, pie Jesu
both
Qui tollis peccata mundi
Dona eis requiem, dona eis requiem
choir
Agnus Dei, Agnus Dei, Agnus Dei, Agnus Dei
both
Qui tollis peccata mundi
Dona eis requiem, dona eis requiem
choir
Dona eis requiem
both
Sempiternam
choir
Dona eis requiem
both
Sempiternam
Sarah
Requiem
Paul
Sempiternam
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Show: Requiem, 1985
This is the original recording from "Requiem" (1985). I find it interesting to hear how much Sarah's voice has changed in the last ten years. [from the CD-booklet]
Sung with the Winchester Cathedral Choir
Source of the song and different versions by Sarah
From: Surrender, The unexpected songs (1995)
and The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection (1997).
Also on: Sings the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber (1992)
and on: Classics - European release (2006).
At the concert in Edinburgh I saw, and on the video of the same concert in the Royal Albert Hall (September 1997, both), Sarah sang this song with Adam Clarke.
And at the concert as well as on the video of the La Luna tour (2000/2001), Sarah sang Pie Jesu solo.
A solo version appears on: Classics (2001), which basically has the same lyrics.
Source of the lyrics: thanks to Lauren, with the correction that 'dona' is spelled with one 'n' [which comes, wrote Lanny, from "donare", meaning "give, grant, ..."] and 'tollis' is with double 'l' [thanks to Fernando A. Batista de Almeida, who added that it is "from Latin verb: tollo, tollis, tollere, sustuli, sublatum means To Take away"].
Some info on the background and origin of the song
Bjorn Handeland wrote me that this song, and in fact Andrew Lloyd Webber's entire "Requiem", is dedicated to the victims of the conflict in Northern Ireland. Mark DeCain, however, wrote me that in the liner notes on the CD to 'Requiem" it states that the work was composed by Webber in sorrow over the loss of his father.
At the concert in Edinburgh I saw, and on the video of the same concert in the Royal Albert Hall (September 1997, both), Sarah dedicated the song to all those who lost loved ones.
And at the concert as well as on the video of the La Luna tour (2000/2001), Sarah said it dedicated to all those who lost their lives due to political conflicts.
Sam Bendahan wrote me that "Pie Jesu" is part of a "Requiem Mass" written by Tommaso da Celano (circa 1200-1270). It has been put to music many times, the most famous version of which is by Gabriel Fauré and the most recent by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Translation into English
Lauren also gave me an English translation of the Latin (with a correction thanks to Walter H. Padilla RamÃrez); see also the translation of "In Paradisum" for some remarks.
Latin English
Pie Jesu
Qui tollis peccata mundi
Dona eis requiem
Agnus Dei
Dona eis requiem sempiternam
Merciful Jesus
Who takes away the sins of the world
Grant them rest
Lamb of God
Grant them everlasting rest
Fernando's translation reads:
Pie Jesu, qui tollis peccata mundi
Dona eis requiem.
Merciful Jesus, you take away the sins of the world
(eternal) rest grant unto them.
Sarah herself gave another translation at the Royal Albert Hall concert mentioned above:
Sweet Jesus, who takes away the sins
of the world, grant us peace
An exact translation of a song such as this is clearly difficult to give: it is the feeling that counts most. The lyrics and translation into English given in the CD-booklet of Voice of an Angel (1998) from Charlotte Church, for example, are:
Latin lyrics English translation
Pie Jesu, Pie Jesu,
Pie Jesu, Pie Jesu,
Qui tollis peccata mundi;
Dona eis requiem,
Dona eis requiem.
Agnus Dei, Agnus Dei,
Agnus Dei, Agnus Dei,
Qui tollis peccata mundi;
Dona eis requiem,
Dona eis requiem.
Sempiternam, sempiternam requiem.
Lord, have mercy,
Lord, have mercy,
You who take away the sins of the world;
Grant them peace,
Grant them peace.
Lamb of God, Lamb of God,
Lamb of God, Lamb of God,
You who take away the sins of the world;
Grant them peace,
Grant them peace.
Peace everlasting, everlasting.
The last line is actually "Everlasting, everlasting peace" of course. By the way, the translation of "requiem" as "peace" is, religiously speaking, not really correct: it is better to use "rest", as in the first translation.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
The Streisand lyrics in my mind today
Don't Rain On My Parade (Released 1990)
At the end of the baltimore run, fanny's train is leaving to go on to to chicago,
While nick must catch the train for new york and then head to europe. nick tells
Fanny he loves her and she suggests he marry her, but he wants to have a fortune
Before he does. on the spur of the moment, fanny decides to leave the tour and
Follow nick to new york. eddie who has arrived to visit tries to talk her out
Of it. ziegfeld tries as well, but fanny is intent on following nick; she has
Success in show business and now she wants a personal life as well. eddie tries
To advise her one more time, don't, and she replies:
Don't tell me not to live,
Just sit and putter,
Life's candy and the sun's
A ball of butter.
Don't bring around a cloud
To rain on my parade.
Don't tell me not to fly--
I've simply got to.
If someone takes a spill,
It's me and not you.
Who told you you're allowed
To rain on my parade!
I'll march my band out,
I'll beat my drum,
And if I'm fanned out,
Your turn at bat, sir.
At least I didn't fake it.
Hat, sir, I guess I didn't make it!
But whether I'm the rose
Of sheer perfection,
Or freckle on the nose
Of life's complexion,
The cinder or the shiny apple of it's eye,
I gotta fly once,
I gotta try once,
Only can die once, right, sir?
Ooh, love is juicy,
Juicy, and you see
I gotta have my bite, sir!
Get ready for me, love,
'cause I'm a comer,
I simply gotta march,
My heart's a drummer.
Don't bring around a cloud
To rain on my parade!
I'm gonna live and live now,
Get what I want--i know how,
One roll for the whole shebang,
One throw, that bell will go clang,
Eye on the target--and wham--
One shot, one gun shot, and bam--
Hey, mister arnstein, here I am!
I'll march my band out,
I will beat my drum,
And if I'm fanned out,
Your turn at bat, sir,
At least I didn't fake it.
Hat, sir, I guess I didn't make it.
Get ready for me, love,
'cause I'm a comer,
I simply gotta march,
My heart's a drummer.
Nobody, no, nobody
Is gonna rain on my parade!
At the end of the baltimore run, fanny's train is leaving to go on to to chicago,
While nick must catch the train for new york and then head to europe. nick tells
Fanny he loves her and she suggests he marry her, but he wants to have a fortune
Before he does. on the spur of the moment, fanny decides to leave the tour and
Follow nick to new york. eddie who has arrived to visit tries to talk her out
Of it. ziegfeld tries as well, but fanny is intent on following nick; she has
Success in show business and now she wants a personal life as well. eddie tries
To advise her one more time, don't, and she replies:
Don't tell me not to live,
Just sit and putter,
Life's candy and the sun's
A ball of butter.
Don't bring around a cloud
To rain on my parade.
Don't tell me not to fly--
I've simply got to.
If someone takes a spill,
It's me and not you.
Who told you you're allowed
To rain on my parade!
I'll march my band out,
I'll beat my drum,
And if I'm fanned out,
Your turn at bat, sir.
At least I didn't fake it.
Hat, sir, I guess I didn't make it!
But whether I'm the rose
Of sheer perfection,
Or freckle on the nose
Of life's complexion,
The cinder or the shiny apple of it's eye,
I gotta fly once,
I gotta try once,
Only can die once, right, sir?
Ooh, love is juicy,
Juicy, and you see
I gotta have my bite, sir!
Get ready for me, love,
'cause I'm a comer,
I simply gotta march,
My heart's a drummer.
Don't bring around a cloud
To rain on my parade!
I'm gonna live and live now,
Get what I want--i know how,
One roll for the whole shebang,
One throw, that bell will go clang,
Eye on the target--and wham--
One shot, one gun shot, and bam--
Hey, mister arnstein, here I am!
I'll march my band out,
I will beat my drum,
And if I'm fanned out,
Your turn at bat, sir,
At least I didn't fake it.
Hat, sir, I guess I didn't make it.
Get ready for me, love,
'cause I'm a comer,
I simply gotta march,
My heart's a drummer.
Nobody, no, nobody
Is gonna rain on my parade!
Pieta
St. Patrick's was great. Really good. I love it when a sermon is about suffering for Jesus and not the Lord blessing me for a new car and house....which most churches were for awhile.
My two comments written during Mass:
"My friends cause me more sorrow than my enemies. Selah."
The other one sounds very Angelina Jolie, (pre-Brad)...
"I would like to write a
'Jesus loves Matthias'
with a heart around it
on the ceramic Pieta?
Would that be bad?"
My two comments written during Mass:
"My friends cause me more sorrow than my enemies. Selah."
The other one sounds very Angelina Jolie, (pre-Brad)...
"I would like to write a
'Jesus loves Matthias'
with a heart around it
on the ceramic Pieta?
Would that be bad?"
Monday, September 14, 2009
Peace on Earth
The holidays are approaching and the Halloween stores will soon be Christmas stores before Thanksgiving.
I recall a favorite song sung in elementary school,
"Let there be peace on earth."
Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me.
Let there be peace on earth, the peace that was meant to be.
With God as our father, brothers all are we.
Let me walk with my brother, in perfect harmony."
May Chanukkah and Christmas be well celebrated
as God is giving us life.
L'Chaim. The Twelve Days of Christmas song and
the Candy Cane are Christian themed.
I recall a favorite song sung in elementary school,
"Let there be peace on earth."
Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me.
Let there be peace on earth, the peace that was meant to be.
With God as our father, brothers all are we.
Let me walk with my brother, in perfect harmony."
May Chanukkah and Christmas be well celebrated
as God is giving us life.
L'Chaim. The Twelve Days of Christmas song and
the Candy Cane are Christian themed.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Hashem loves you!
A poem sent from a friend of Israel:
Along life’s road, I’ve noticed this
The grandest sights we often miss
We fail to see the lovely things
And miss the joy that seeing brings.
The flowers that bloom along the way
The setting sun at close of day
The mountains, valleys, streams and trees
We seem to miss the sight of these.
Hashem left it all to us,
To help ourselves to happiness
And yet we grumble and complain
Of too much drought or too much rain
Of too much heat or too much cold
All through our lives, until we’re old.
We kick and growl and fret and fuss
And all is wrong that is given to us.
The way to live, it seems to me
Is just to try our best to see
The pleasant side of everything
Instead of grumbling, try to sing
A song of praise and thankfulness
For all that’s ours of happiness
And pay Hashem a compliment
For all the blessings, He has sent you!
Tizku Leshanim Tovot Uneimot,
Binyamin Jadidi
Along life’s road, I’ve noticed this
The grandest sights we often miss
We fail to see the lovely things
And miss the joy that seeing brings.
The flowers that bloom along the way
The setting sun at close of day
The mountains, valleys, streams and trees
We seem to miss the sight of these.
Hashem left it all to us,
To help ourselves to happiness
And yet we grumble and complain
Of too much drought or too much rain
Of too much heat or too much cold
All through our lives, until we’re old.
We kick and growl and fret and fuss
And all is wrong that is given to us.
The way to live, it seems to me
Is just to try our best to see
The pleasant side of everything
Instead of grumbling, try to sing
A song of praise and thankfulness
For all that’s ours of happiness
And pay Hashem a compliment
For all the blessings, He has sent you!
Tizku Leshanim Tovot Uneimot,
Binyamin Jadidi
Girl Scout Cookies
Dear Parents,
If you are no longer living in the early 1980's, do not send your little girl out into the big, bad world armed with just a girl scout sash ( in my case a brownie one) and a sheet for ordering a gazillion cookies.
My mom sent me from house to house as she stayed in the car OR WAYYYYYY back at the bottom of many lonely staircases in my Del Rey Woods neighborhood.
I saw the multi-colored, pastel, cookie order sheet as my brownie mandated agenda and duty to fulfill.
I sold a lot.
Now I just help the world, one cookie at a time.
If you are no longer living in the early 1980's, do not send your little girl out into the big, bad world armed with just a girl scout sash ( in my case a brownie one) and a sheet for ordering a gazillion cookies.
My mom sent me from house to house as she stayed in the car OR WAYYYYYY back at the bottom of many lonely staircases in my Del Rey Woods neighborhood.
I saw the multi-colored, pastel, cookie order sheet as my brownie mandated agenda and duty to fulfill.
I sold a lot.
Now I just help the world, one cookie at a time.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Elvis
Elvis-
I remember sitting in my friend's, Emily Harmon's house out by the vineyards of Sonoma County. We got kicked out of the city limits at a party once and had to tredge through fields of grapes at night.
"Veronica" by Elvis Costello brings me back to independence.
I hear it in grocery stores and elevators and it makes me what I am.
Gwen Stefani running in her wedding dress keeps blurring through my mind.
I wrote this based on amazingly true events.
ICEE
Slurpees on a summer day, icees
of lemonade to run, to play,
Sprinklers in my underwear-
running around in the golden air.
A tribute to John Updike.
Running-(Runi)
She runs the fastest.
From Nigerian Kings and Princes,
and from Scottish men with ale.
From crack on the street, in Pie a la mode,
and from people who put her in jail.
She runs the fastest.
I remember sitting in my friend's, Emily Harmon's house out by the vineyards of Sonoma County. We got kicked out of the city limits at a party once and had to tredge through fields of grapes at night.
"Veronica" by Elvis Costello brings me back to independence.
I hear it in grocery stores and elevators and it makes me what I am.
Gwen Stefani running in her wedding dress keeps blurring through my mind.
I wrote this based on amazingly true events.
ICEE
Slurpees on a summer day, icees
of lemonade to run, to play,
Sprinklers in my underwear-
running around in the golden air.
A tribute to John Updike.
Running-(Runi)
She runs the fastest.
From Nigerian Kings and Princes,
and from Scottish men with ale.
From crack on the street, in Pie a la mode,
and from people who put her in jail.
She runs the fastest.
Courtney Love is my hero!
I was imprisoned, strip searched, tortured, put in captivity for thirteen days in jail, and met some friends who sang a few songs.
A place to cry.
Sometimes putting pieces together creates a map of alchemy in our hearts.
Ingredients of people's hearts and minds make me what I am, transparent before God.
A place to cry.
Sometimes putting pieces together creates a map of alchemy in our hearts.
Ingredients of people's hearts and minds make me what I am, transparent before God.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Sad
Sad.
I was not having "better days" until I was kicked out of a mosque.
I was having the best while teaching Arabic translation of the Koran with some girls.
The stupid Christians knew no diplomacy and will get it closed again.
I am not happy.
So sad....really darn sad.
Like if my tears were blue, purple then black, I would be a model crying ink that spatters
blots on the page...maybe like a Japanese cherry blossom tree.
I seem to like cherry blossom trees. My sister wanted to go to the cherry blossom festival in D.C. May still work out in the future.
Tears of ink speak of a lot of sad things this year.
I was not having "better days" until I was kicked out of a mosque.
I was having the best while teaching Arabic translation of the Koran with some girls.
The stupid Christians knew no diplomacy and will get it closed again.
I am not happy.
So sad....really darn sad.
Like if my tears were blue, purple then black, I would be a model crying ink that spatters
blots on the page...maybe like a Japanese cherry blossom tree.
I seem to like cherry blossom trees. My sister wanted to go to the cherry blossom festival in D.C. May still work out in the future.
Tears of ink speak of a lot of sad things this year.
Stern
Harold had a wife who was great and so did Fred.
I am a great wife who will have a husband who is my equal not my superior.
I am equal to any man.
I am a great wife who will have a husband who is my equal not my superior.
I am equal to any man.
Fleurs
Merci beaucoup!
Thanks for the people who have given me some time in the sun.
I have been in the shade for decades.
Some advice for other flowers or bees:
If I am in a vase, cut by suffering and choices of good.
I want to be planted where I can bloom continuously.
I want to have another flower strong and weak,
to mature with,
or to meet Jesus with face to face as best friends.
Thanks for the people who have given me some time in the sun.
I have been in the shade for decades.
Some advice for other flowers or bees:
If I am in a vase, cut by suffering and choices of good.
I want to be planted where I can bloom continuously.
I want to have another flower strong and weak,
to mature with,
or to meet Jesus with face to face as best friends.
Harts and Sterns were both kidnapped.
The Retail Tradition
Early Jewish immigrants staked their claims downtown
By Cecily Barnes
A sign by the railroad tracks is all that remains of the once mighty Hart's retailing empire. Photo by Christopher Gardner.
'Those who were more prosperous stayed in San Francisco because, to expand their businesses, they needed access to the ports," recalls San Jose Jewish historian Steve Kinsey. "The Jews that came here came for different reasons. It was a totally different environment that didn't lend itself to contribution. You wouldn't have found the kind of culture here that was in San Francisco. We just didn't have those types of things."
Instead of building museums, libraries, schools and opera houses, San Jose's earliest Jews constructed a simple and sturdy business community. Market and Santa Clara Street became lined with Jewish merchants, all of whom knew each another from business and the temple.
Hyman Rich, Bickur Cholim's first rabbi, ran a clothing shop with his friend Max Blumenthal. Up the way on Market Street, the tailor shop was owned by Hyman's brother, Jacob Rich, and his friend, Hyman Levy. Down two streets on the corner of Santa Clara and San Pedro, Lazard Lion ran his general merchandise store. Lion later acquired the San Jose Glove Factory, opened a carpet shop across from the Music Hall building on Knox Block and directed the Commercial and Savings Bank on First and Santa Clara. He, too, had a relative working up the street, his half-brother Leopold Hart, who owned a drugstore that later became Hart's Department Store. Mayer and Jacob Levy set up the Levy Brothers on First and Santa Clara streets. Jacob Atlas started Atlas Auto Wreckers, the South Bay's first automobile dismantling business. The Fox family started the recyclery, Markovits and Fox. Marcus Stern ran his saddle shop downtown. Out of all these businesses, only Stern's, Markovitz and Fox and Atlas Auto Wrecking remain.
Photo by Dan Pulcrano.
Hart's Department Store left downtown for the Westgate shopping center in the late 1960s. "Retail went where the customers were," 77-year-old Alex Hart Jr. says. It was later bought out by a regional chain and closed in 1982. Hart remains convinced that had Macy's selected downtown over Valley Fair, downtown "would have remained a wonderful, viable, important shopping district." He debunks rumors that merchants didn't want competition and attributes the loss of Macy's to the store's failure to reach agreement with a landowner over the amount of rental payments on a lease.
Directly across from Millers Outpost in the Oakridge Mall, Stern's luggage shop looks like any other chain retail establishment except that in the cluttered back office, framed photos of Marcus, Fred, Harold and Howard trace the store's legacy back to 1854. Clayton Stern, whose picture hasn't been mounted yet, will take control of the store when his mother, Gloria, retires. He will be the fifth-generation Stern to run what is the oldest family business in Silicon Valley.
Marcus Stern moved to San Jose in 1852 and founded his business two years later. When his son Fred took over the leather shop, it was with little passion--Fred was more enamored with politics and Judaism. Besides being extremely active with Bickur Cholim, Fred Stern served on the City Council and county Board of Supervisors, says his great-granddaughter-in-law, Gloria Stern. Fred's son Harold, however, was all business. Quiet and focused, he had a distaste for both politics and religion. He would chastise his father for being too involved with politics, and when he inherited the business, a ledger of unpaid debts came with it.
"People would come into the store, and Fred would just write down their name and tell them to pay later. But he wouldn't always know who they were, so he would write things like, 'the man in the gray hat,' " says Gloria Stern, who married Harold's son, Howard. "When he died, there were all sorts of debts, and they didn't know who to collect them from."
When Gloria's husband took over the business, he could juggle both the shop and an interest in community service and politics. Gloria and Howard's son Clay, Gloria tells, is solid business--just like his Grandpa Harold.
"Sometimes we still have people come in and say, 'Oh we remember your store on First Street,' or tell us they knew Harold," Gloria says. "But it happens less and less now. Most of the time they don't leave their name. Sometimes they'll just talk to one of the girls out front, who don't know much about the history."
I joined the temple again and restored my family line. The Sterns are back in San Francisco.
. The Retail Tradition . Pioneer Meyer Bloom >
From the March 12-18, 1998 issue of Metro, Silicon Valley's Weekly Newspaper.
Early Jewish immigrants staked their claims downtown
By Cecily Barnes
A sign by the railroad tracks is all that remains of the once mighty Hart's retailing empire. Photo by Christopher Gardner.
'Those who were more prosperous stayed in San Francisco because, to expand their businesses, they needed access to the ports," recalls San Jose Jewish historian Steve Kinsey. "The Jews that came here came for different reasons. It was a totally different environment that didn't lend itself to contribution. You wouldn't have found the kind of culture here that was in San Francisco. We just didn't have those types of things."
Instead of building museums, libraries, schools and opera houses, San Jose's earliest Jews constructed a simple and sturdy business community. Market and Santa Clara Street became lined with Jewish merchants, all of whom knew each another from business and the temple.
Hyman Rich, Bickur Cholim's first rabbi, ran a clothing shop with his friend Max Blumenthal. Up the way on Market Street, the tailor shop was owned by Hyman's brother, Jacob Rich, and his friend, Hyman Levy. Down two streets on the corner of Santa Clara and San Pedro, Lazard Lion ran his general merchandise store. Lion later acquired the San Jose Glove Factory, opened a carpet shop across from the Music Hall building on Knox Block and directed the Commercial and Savings Bank on First and Santa Clara. He, too, had a relative working up the street, his half-brother Leopold Hart, who owned a drugstore that later became Hart's Department Store. Mayer and Jacob Levy set up the Levy Brothers on First and Santa Clara streets. Jacob Atlas started Atlas Auto Wreckers, the South Bay's first automobile dismantling business. The Fox family started the recyclery, Markovits and Fox. Marcus Stern ran his saddle shop downtown. Out of all these businesses, only Stern's, Markovitz and Fox and Atlas Auto Wrecking remain.
Photo by Dan Pulcrano.
Hart's Department Store left downtown for the Westgate shopping center in the late 1960s. "Retail went where the customers were," 77-year-old Alex Hart Jr. says. It was later bought out by a regional chain and closed in 1982. Hart remains convinced that had Macy's selected downtown over Valley Fair, downtown "would have remained a wonderful, viable, important shopping district." He debunks rumors that merchants didn't want competition and attributes the loss of Macy's to the store's failure to reach agreement with a landowner over the amount of rental payments on a lease.
Directly across from Millers Outpost in the Oakridge Mall, Stern's luggage shop looks like any other chain retail establishment except that in the cluttered back office, framed photos of Marcus, Fred, Harold and Howard trace the store's legacy back to 1854. Clayton Stern, whose picture hasn't been mounted yet, will take control of the store when his mother, Gloria, retires. He will be the fifth-generation Stern to run what is the oldest family business in Silicon Valley.
Marcus Stern moved to San Jose in 1852 and founded his business two years later. When his son Fred took over the leather shop, it was with little passion--Fred was more enamored with politics and Judaism. Besides being extremely active with Bickur Cholim, Fred Stern served on the City Council and county Board of Supervisors, says his great-granddaughter-in-law, Gloria Stern. Fred's son Harold, however, was all business. Quiet and focused, he had a distaste for both politics and religion. He would chastise his father for being too involved with politics, and when he inherited the business, a ledger of unpaid debts came with it.
"People would come into the store, and Fred would just write down their name and tell them to pay later. But he wouldn't always know who they were, so he would write things like, 'the man in the gray hat,' " says Gloria Stern, who married Harold's son, Howard. "When he died, there were all sorts of debts, and they didn't know who to collect them from."
When Gloria's husband took over the business, he could juggle both the shop and an interest in community service and politics. Gloria and Howard's son Clay, Gloria tells, is solid business--just like his Grandpa Harold.
"Sometimes we still have people come in and say, 'Oh we remember your store on First Street,' or tell us they knew Harold," Gloria says. "But it happens less and less now. Most of the time they don't leave their name. Sometimes they'll just talk to one of the girls out front, who don't know much about the history."
I joined the temple again and restored my family line. The Sterns are back in San Francisco.
. The Retail Tradition . Pioneer Meyer Bloom >
From the March 12-18, 1998 issue of Metro, Silicon Valley's Weekly Newspaper.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
I met you and are lives were rebuilt for two
I wanted to sing at The Met alone.
Now I want to rest in the hand of a friend of my own.
Now I want to rest in the hand of a friend of my own.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Caitlin Berrigan
I cried so hard when I found Caitlin Berrigan.
I saw her when she was 14 years old. She was so sweet, innocent and beautiful.
I was her Jr. high camp counselor at Railroad camp.
I slept in a barn with her best friend, Meredith and another girl who was a foster child.
I took the week off from work at a developmentally disabled, deaf adult group home that
I was the main couselor at.
I begged the owner for the week off and prayed the whole week for these girls.
I gave them Bibles, jewelry, and promise books.
I knew it was my privelege to share Christ with them.
I know they all are geniuses.
I know the girl who was a foster child never wrote me, maybe she felt like she had too many
problems.
I feel like that, now.
I asked Caitlin and Meredith to write me and they did. I didn't write Caitlin back and I think I wrote Meredith. If the other girl wrote, I am sorry I neve wrtoe her back. My mail was disorganized and it sometimes takes me a literal decade to get back to people.
Caitlin's brilliant and ingenious, website:
MIT VISUAL ARTS PROGRAM work and research caitlin berrigan
(E) Tisch School of the Arts Photography & Imaging Faculty & Staff Show, New York, NY ... 55th annual Berlinale International Film Festival, Berlin, Germany ... Caitlin Berrigan. “The Smelling Committee,” Glowlab, September/October 2006 ...web.mit.edu/.../workandresearch/workgrad/work_berrigan_exhibit.html - Cached - Similar -
Please support her art as it is a cutting edge career we need to have in our world.
I saw her when she was 14 years old. She was so sweet, innocent and beautiful.
I was her Jr. high camp counselor at Railroad camp.
I slept in a barn with her best friend, Meredith and another girl who was a foster child.
I took the week off from work at a developmentally disabled, deaf adult group home that
I was the main couselor at.
I begged the owner for the week off and prayed the whole week for these girls.
I gave them Bibles, jewelry, and promise books.
I knew it was my privelege to share Christ with them.
I know they all are geniuses.
I know the girl who was a foster child never wrote me, maybe she felt like she had too many
problems.
I feel like that, now.
I asked Caitlin and Meredith to write me and they did. I didn't write Caitlin back and I think I wrote Meredith. If the other girl wrote, I am sorry I neve wrtoe her back. My mail was disorganized and it sometimes takes me a literal decade to get back to people.
Caitlin's brilliant and ingenious, website:
MIT VISUAL ARTS PROGRAM work and research caitlin berrigan
(E) Tisch School of the Arts Photography & Imaging Faculty & Staff Show, New York, NY ... 55th annual Berlinale International Film Festival, Berlin, Germany ... Caitlin Berrigan. “The Smelling Committee,” Glowlab, September/October 2006 ...web.mit.edu/.../workandresearch/workgrad/work_berrigan_exhibit.html - Cached - Similar -
Please support her art as it is a cutting edge career we need to have in our world.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Green Day
Gabe an editor in my hometown, invited Green Day to my high school.
Gabe was a Zine editor and used to show me them as we walked to the bus stop.
He accompanied me on guitar as we sang, Joan Baez and I thought I was off key because
we didn't use a chord sheet and just jammed.
I didn't know how to use a monitor and couldn't hear myself.
I loved "Heaven Help Us All" and sang it often.
I danced on stage in a short skirt twice with Gabe.
First listening to Primus,Violent Femmes? at the Phoenix with Erik Tokle who drove too fast in a sportscar and there was some
front row toking involved.
I never did drugs, just hope.
Green Day gave me hope.
They sang at a twang star high school for cholos, special ed, severely disabled
children and some drama students, that afternoon. Their video shows me dancing.
I hope they release the video.
I just never saw it.
I love you, Herr Meline.
I love my MtV.
In less than a month, Green Day's 2004 punk opus American Idiot will come to life onstage as a bona fide musical at California's Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Idiot's creative team includes Michael Mayer, the Tony award-winning director of Spring Awakening (music by Duncan Sheik), and Tom Kitt, the Tony award-winning composer of this year's rock musical Next to Normal. The show's cast features several Spring Awakening alums as well as former and present cast members of Rent, Hair and the Queen-based musical We Will Rock You — along with a few performers with solo music careers.
Check out the actors' resumes and samples of their performances — and read how Mayer and Billie Joe Armstrong bonded to create this production — as Rolling Stone goes behind Green Day's ambitious stage show.
Gabe was a Zine editor and used to show me them as we walked to the bus stop.
He accompanied me on guitar as we sang, Joan Baez and I thought I was off key because
we didn't use a chord sheet and just jammed.
I didn't know how to use a monitor and couldn't hear myself.
I loved "Heaven Help Us All" and sang it often.
I danced on stage in a short skirt twice with Gabe.
First listening to Primus,Violent Femmes? at the Phoenix with Erik Tokle who drove too fast in a sportscar and there was some
front row toking involved.
I never did drugs, just hope.
Green Day gave me hope.
They sang at a twang star high school for cholos, special ed, severely disabled
children and some drama students, that afternoon. Their video shows me dancing.
I hope they release the video.
I just never saw it.
I love you, Herr Meline.
I love my MtV.
In less than a month, Green Day's 2004 punk opus American Idiot will come to life onstage as a bona fide musical at California's Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Idiot's creative team includes Michael Mayer, the Tony award-winning director of Spring Awakening (music by Duncan Sheik), and Tom Kitt, the Tony award-winning composer of this year's rock musical Next to Normal. The show's cast features several Spring Awakening alums as well as former and present cast members of Rent, Hair and the Queen-based musical We Will Rock You — along with a few performers with solo music careers.
Check out the actors' resumes and samples of their performances — and read how Mayer and Billie Joe Armstrong bonded to create this production — as Rolling Stone goes behind Green Day's ambitious stage show.
Art
Paying artists helps us not join army wars.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- While hundreds of thousands of disability claims lay backlogged at the Department of Veterans Affairs, thousands of technology employees at the department received $24 million in bonuses, a new report says.
Lawmakers want to know why some IT workers in the VA Department have received millions in bonuses.
A report issued by the VA's Office of Inspector General said the department issued millions of dollars in awards over a two-year period in 2007 and 2008.
"The frequent and large dollar amount awards given to employees were unusual and often absurd," the report stated.
The reports also called the payments "not fiscally responsible."
Four high-level employees received about $60,000, $73,000, $58,000, and $59,000, respectively, according to the report, without sufficient justification. Another employee received a $4,500 performance award within the first 90 days of her employment from a manager who said that she did not even remember her.
The annual average award per employee was about $2,500 for both years, according to the report. About 4,700 awards and bonuses were issued in 2007, and about 5,000 in 2008.
The inspector general said one recently retired official, Jennifer S. Duncan, improperly approved numerous bonuses and "acted as if she was given a blank checkbook to write unlimited monetary awards."
During the two years in question, Duncan received over $60,000 in bonuses, according to the report.
In addition, the report concluded that the Office of Information and Technology managers were fiscally irresponsible when authorizing nearly $140,000 in improper academic degree funding, some of which went to Duncan's family and friends. The inspector general recommended the money be repaid.
The VA said it is pursuing a thorough review of the situation and it "does not condone misconduct by its employees and will take the appropriate corrective actions for those who violate VA policy," according to a statement provided to CNN.
Duncan could not be reached for comment.
Lawmakers in Washington have taken notice.
"I am extremely troubled by the Inspector General's findings," said Richard Burr, R-NC, the ranking Republican on the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee. "I believe Congress should use its oversight authority to further investigate these matters," he said in an e-mail to CNN.
President Obama has told Congress it is a priority to reduce the number of backlogged claims at the VA, where claims are coming in at a faster rate than they can be processed.
According to a Government Accountability Office report, the VA processed 60 percent more claims from 1999 to 2008 than it did a decade earlier, but the number of claims still pending jumped 65 percent.
Friday, August 21, 2009
Friend
A friend is like a brother and site filled with tears
on the altar of pure love.
Sweet dreams to babies and mothers.
Dulces to suenos of Colombia,
may Juanes and Shakira sleep blessed.
They are so important to the world
as some of our best.
I would buy you an ice cream or chocolate cake,
Horchata, on a blistery day,
friendship-
to warm up your
heartache.
on the altar of pure love.
Sweet dreams to babies and mothers.
Dulces to suenos of Colombia,
may Juanes and Shakira sleep blessed.
They are so important to the world
as some of our best.
I would buy you an ice cream or chocolate cake,
Horchata, on a blistery day,
friendship-
to warm up your
heartache.
"Barack"
Blessed be Barack.
The Lord says you are blessed.
Stand for Israel and stand up for the U.S.
You are not Lincoln, Washington was
threatened and lived.
God had a surprise.
A family man having a hard time.
Other great presidents had a hard time
being, blue.
Too much pressure on you.
You cleaned up after a Bush
and became trees,
olive branches are needed
and doves for liberty.
Stand tall as a tree of strength,
God has binded himself to you
so we can remain.
The Lord says you are blessed.
Stand for Israel and stand up for the U.S.
You are not Lincoln, Washington was
threatened and lived.
God had a surprise.
A family man having a hard time.
Other great presidents had a hard time
being, blue.
Too much pressure on you.
You cleaned up after a Bush
and became trees,
olive branches are needed
and doves for liberty.
Stand tall as a tree of strength,
God has binded himself to you
so we can remain.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
I am neither greek nor hebrew. I am all.
I am a man. I am a woman.
I am rich. I am poor.
I am humble. I am dignified.
I am less. I am more.
I need money. I need love.
I want to give. I want to earn.
I want justice. I need law.
I need forgiveness and courage.
I am rich. I am poor.
I am humble. I am dignified.
I am less. I am more.
I need money. I need love.
I want to give. I want to earn.
I want justice. I need law.
I need forgiveness and courage.
King's and Queens
Sovereigns are important right now.
In a world of little education, less class and culture,
the dreams and strategies for past times are being renewed.
The one world takeover by the EU.
The one world takeover by the NAFTA agreement,
where we can have water from five different countries that is polluted
and not know where it came from in one bottle,
is not okay.
Privatization is needed again.
Also, we need our queens educated.
Every person needs a home and a college degree.
Every child needs healthcare, not the state,
but private run.
Every person needs dignity and food.
The world needs to share, conserve water, and love.
In a world of little education, less class and culture,
the dreams and strategies for past times are being renewed.
The one world takeover by the EU.
The one world takeover by the NAFTA agreement,
where we can have water from five different countries that is polluted
and not know where it came from in one bottle,
is not okay.
Privatization is needed again.
Also, we need our queens educated.
Every person needs a home and a college degree.
Every child needs healthcare, not the state,
but private run.
Every person needs dignity and food.
The world needs to share, conserve water, and love.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Cannes and Arab works in the U.S.
The Arab Film Festival will take place between October 15th to October 24th 2009 in San Francisco, San Jose, Berkeley, and Los Angeles.
I am a promoter of art, film, and culture with my company, Irreconcilable Differences in San Francisco.
All this was is a reponse to a film festival and support for a part of community that is persecuted currently since 9/11.
Do not be afraid to assemble or speak Arabic.
I learned some Arabic at college and people were investigated by Homeland Security if they spoke Arabic.
Wa-salaam or wa-saalam.
Welcome.
Second ammendment, right to assemble. If people assemble they are not hurt.
Third ammendment, right to free speech.
People need to stand up for me and each other against tyranny.
The supreme court needs to overturn the gay ammendment to not have a choice
of marriage. It is a states right issue.
Gavin Newsome went into hiding and couldn't stand up for my city because of Lou Engle.
The Supreme Court and Ruth Ginsburgh need our support to stand up against the President.
I am a promoter of art, film, and culture with my company, Irreconcilable Differences in San Francisco.
All this was is a reponse to a film festival and support for a part of community that is persecuted currently since 9/11.
Do not be afraid to assemble or speak Arabic.
I learned some Arabic at college and people were investigated by Homeland Security if they spoke Arabic.
Wa-salaam or wa-saalam.
Welcome.
Second ammendment, right to assemble. If people assemble they are not hurt.
Third ammendment, right to free speech.
People need to stand up for me and each other against tyranny.
The supreme court needs to overturn the gay ammendment to not have a choice
of marriage. It is a states right issue.
Gavin Newsome went into hiding and couldn't stand up for my city because of Lou Engle.
The Supreme Court and Ruth Ginsburgh need our support to stand up against the President.
Kristallnacht
Jews, guys with dresses and gangs, are being pushed out from the corrupted, very money supported life of the city.
We can stand up for what is right.
God wants us to share in clothes, books, in food. Let's get together and be a great community.
We are stronger than them by our numbers.
We do not need to be afraid.
Stand up for your neighbors and for yourselves and your family.
Secrets of the Lord's return are near.
Stand up and be not ashamed of who you are, your religion, or sexual preference.
Dance. Sing. Act.
We can stand up for what is right.
God wants us to share in clothes, books, in food. Let's get together and be a great community.
We are stronger than them by our numbers.
We do not need to be afraid.
Stand up for your neighbors and for yourselves and your family.
Secrets of the Lord's return are near.
Stand up and be not ashamed of who you are, your religion, or sexual preference.
Dance. Sing. Act.
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Truth
The Jews built this city and have been shut out all year.
They are the best musicians and so are being persecuted.
Arabs have Rumi, Jews have David.
David is equivalent of David.
There is none other.
Bless Israel.
L'Shalom
They are the best musicians and so are being persecuted.
Arabs have Rumi, Jews have David.
David is equivalent of David.
There is none other.
Bless Israel.
L'Shalom
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Teach the art of aristocracy
My grandma was termed an aristocrat.
She taught me how to misbehave.
I say, "Teach the children well" was a song.
Because no child left behind,
left a generation unemployed,
lying in the dust,
with no graduation,
diploma.
Do you want to teach?
The children are waiting to listen.
The value of our economy is nothing
more than the value of our education.
Let them eat books!
She taught me how to misbehave.
I say, "Teach the children well" was a song.
Because no child left behind,
left a generation unemployed,
lying in the dust,
with no graduation,
diploma.
Do you want to teach?
The children are waiting to listen.
The value of our economy is nothing
more than the value of our education.
Let them eat books!
Wolfgang
Mozart is like rap,
he flowed in styles of
lyrical expression.
He stayed in form
but led to a rise,
a horizon.
His art was his soul,
poured out on a page,
hour after hour
of writing notes
with a metal pin
on parchment,
ink dots with lines
that show a mind
of a genius.
he flowed in styles of
lyrical expression.
He stayed in form
but led to a rise,
a horizon.
His art was his soul,
poured out on a page,
hour after hour
of writing notes
with a metal pin
on parchment,
ink dots with lines
that show a mind
of a genius.
Wolfgang
Mozart is like rap.
His music was thoughts freeflow
of type, and expression.
Words and notes
of his indiscretion.
Maybe his lasting affairs with Constanza
led him to marriage with music.
They were more than wed,
they were lovers.
His music was thoughts freeflow
of type, and expression.
Words and notes
of his indiscretion.
Maybe his lasting affairs with Constanza
led him to marriage with music.
They were more than wed,
they were lovers.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Midway
I used to sing Joni Mitchell from the record, "Clouds" when I felt lost love.
Here is the first verse,
I met you on the midway
I met you on a midway at a fair last year
And you stood out like a ruby in a black man's ear
You were playing on the horses, you were playing on the guitar strings
You were playing like a devil wearing wings, wearing wings
You looked so grand wearing wings
Do you tape them to your shoulders just to sing
Can you fly
I heard you can! Can you fly
Like an eagle doin' your hunting from the sky
Here is the first verse,
I met you on the midway
I met you on a midway at a fair last year
And you stood out like a ruby in a black man's ear
You were playing on the horses, you were playing on the guitar strings
You were playing like a devil wearing wings, wearing wings
You looked so grand wearing wings
Do you tape them to your shoulders just to sing
Can you fly
I heard you can! Can you fly
Like an eagle doin' your hunting from the sky
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
I am coming home
I sat at a bar today and talked to a great DJ, jazz musician who needs to finish college.
I told him about my friend, Brendan McCarthy, who is classically trained and is too good for the Christian music scene. He's urban and also cutting edge in ways yet expressed.
O how the mighty have fallen for cheap dates, drinks, and cowboy boots.
I wrote a poem at the bar.
My whole year
has become a night.
I woke up
this morning and
said
I like
being
awake.
www.brendanmccarthymusic.com
I told him about my friend, Brendan McCarthy, who is classically trained and is too good for the Christian music scene. He's urban and also cutting edge in ways yet expressed.
O how the mighty have fallen for cheap dates, drinks, and cowboy boots.
I wrote a poem at the bar.
My whole year
has become a night.
I woke up
this morning and
said
I like
being
awake.
www.brendanmccarthymusic.com
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Chagall
My mother was an artist. She was a great painter whole life long, a great singer of opera invited to La Scala in Milan, and a cermacist who molded me into glory.
I bought a Chagall, an original lithograph, now I have to finish paying for it. That is what college is for to afford luxuries like art and studying opera.
I sang tonight and filled the downstairs and dining room. I never sing full voice and surprised even myself.
I bought a Chagall, an original lithograph, now I have to finish paying for it. That is what college is for to afford luxuries like art and studying opera.
I sang tonight and filled the downstairs and dining room. I never sing full voice and surprised even myself.
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