Lovevolution

I unexpectedly found myself driving the streets of the city the other day on a couple of quick errands, always a joy during the traffic chaos that this tiny city offers up...especially around the bridge. Since I have mostly mastered my road rage, reducing it to venomous stares, universal shrugs of WTF and an occasional extended finger. This new found inner peace allows me to pay slightly more attention to what I am hearing on the radio, so when I'm not air drumming or singing my heart out I listen to the CBC most often.

And this day I was listening to the "Q" while navigating around and I caught the tail end of an interview that the host was doing with D'bi Young Anitafrika. I've never heard of her but Mr Google tells me she is an actor, playwright and dub poet. In the short time I was listening I was moved by her passion and her message. The message I think is more important than ever in light of the coming chaos and uncertainty that will goes like hand in glove with the ascendancy of one Mr Drumph.

In a week where he won the election and phrases like the House Committee on Un-American Activities are bandied about, Leonard Cohen passed away and the annual Remembrance Day ceremony took centre stage...maybe pulling back and truly thinking about the ways of the world is in order. Maybe we react too much instead of being proactive. I'm as guilty as the next person when it comes to throwing the mud at something I don't like, hell it's a pastime for a lot us. I seem to always come back to the idea that it starts with a change of direction....opening the clenched fist in an embrace of understanding and acceptance. She talked of a lovevolution...a revolution of love, using mentoring as a vehicle of spreading positive ideals...check out the segment and feel her passion D'bi Young Anitafrika on "Q"  You get high marks in my book when you are connected to Stephen Lewis and his foundation.

It's never going to be easy but now, especially now, we need to come together...throw off the fear and hate and use the message of hope and love as our starting point. While the darkness seems to be overwhelming, take solace in the words of Leonard Cohen...

There is a crack in everything.

That's how the light gets in

Peace and love my friends