What a great week for encouraging listening.
This weekend, I drove into Memphis to see The Good Shepherd. I listened each way to great ally Caroline Casey do her winter solstice solo, interview Graham Hancock as well as the New Orleans relief team at Common Ground Collective.
For an opportunity to make a difference in New Orleans:
Common Ground Collective
http://www.commongroundrelief.org
Caroline reminds us that leadership is painting a vision of doors on the walls built by the reality police. She invites us to see everyone as our friend. If they are doing harm, we are the friend of their soul and the enemy of their project. To connect into all this richness:
Caroline Casey’s Center for Visionary Activism
http://www.visionaryactivism.com/
Tonight for the first time in many decades of listening to Ella Fitzgerald, I decided to try Ella singing Cole Porter at the gym. As Caroline would say, what a good idea!
There is nothing like great rhyming to great tunes to encourage you on your way to getting back in shape. One of my favorite lines is from “You’re the Top”
“You’re sublime,
You’re a turkey dinner,
You’re the time of the Derby winner”
For the full lyrics:
“You’re the Top”
Words and music by Cole Porter, 1934.
http://www.slate.com/id/2120550/
Be encouraged — as Caroline reminds us, “The wheel is turning, what will we draw from the night?”,