The Art of Living

I got such a inspirational bath last evening with Yonni... I had heard people talking about Yonni and how great he was but never ever looked for anything that the artist did. I was watching TV. last evening but a storm blocked my signal for watching TV. on the Satellite so I changed to Cable and happened across PBS doing their fund raising but as I switched onto the channel I noticed a musician with an orchestra behind him that was pretty impressively large with an incredible light show going on behind him. I watched with a smile on my face and then the violin played so veraciously that I found myself grinning and moving to the beat and then a flutist stood and I heard such incredible sounds filling each and every molecule of my being with laughter and feelings of intense jubilation. I found my self applauding and yelling bravo and more until the folks from PBS came on asking for money. I love PBS on the television and NPR on the radio and believe in giving to these great organizations especially because of the good things that they bring to our lives that other wise we wouldn't have contact with. You sure can't expect the TV. that we spend 85 dollars a month to watch to have great programming like the show I saw last night.

Anyway there he was in living color Yonni, the man himself and he spoke of his band and how they were musicians and artists from around the world of every race, religion, and culture with different beliefs all working together to make his music a reality and what a reality it is. Yonni just blew me away musically and then such a simple statement he stated gave me a new outlook on life that I think has changed my life for the better and might do the same for you once I expound on it for you. He said, "I haven't lost the child in myself". He was speaking of the child that is in all of us that once we grow up we loose as that is the one true thing we don't want to carry around with us because we want the world to take us seriously but with the attitude of a child people look down on you but that is the one thing we need to hold dear to our soul as our lives get soured by people letting us down and getting in our way and all the crap that beats us down till we are sick of living.

I heard him say he still has the child in himself and I now will use that as my montra when things begin to get me down. If we can remember this one thing in life, not to loose the child in ourselves than our lives are successes. When we can dream anything is possible and to think as a child is to believe all things are possible. Once the child is gone and we are where we are in life that is it for us and there isn't any hope left but with that child in us we can again be free to believe in Santa and Dragons and the man in the moon just for starters.

I think the minute I began to take myself serious was the day I lost my child and last night was so eye opening to me because I am not afraid of being silly anymore and I am not going to worry one bit for the rest of my life. I will live it till it spits me out but for all of you out there that have tasted defeat and sickness and emptiness you are the ones I want this message of fun and life to become part of you too.

I love you all and wish the world all the best. If we can all just get over ourselves and become a community of men and women not being afraid to do what is right for each and every one of us and quite with the greed and need to have what everyone else has that is when we can start having a fun life.

Peace Out

La Roo