I can't help not being black.

When Joy was in the Caribbean a few weeks ago, working of course, all the locals had a pop song on all the radio channels about Obama. It was something about how great he is and he was going to paint the white house black!
I would love to hear the song!

On my journeys
through London town today
tube
train
street
YMCA
121s
groups
I am certain that every black person I met and saw looked two inches taller. Walking proud and I love it love it.

So many times Black people have almost had to apologise for their colour - such was the racism and hostility. I have deliberately given many humans of colour opportunities when I have employed people. I targeted adverts into the Black press to ensure that they had the best of chances. Equal opportunities it is called.

WE WILL NOT TORTURE
said Obama today.

So much about Obama, and I am not talking about the colour of his skin, is his philosophy and tone. It fits around my soul like a hand in a rubber glove. I have always shrived in management and leadership to be vulnerable and transparent. I love it love it.

"Principled and focused diplomacy" he said today.
The same philosophy abroad.
hmmmmm I love it love it.

When I retire I am going on a course to learn to type.
Just doing these few words here leaves my fingers tired and unable to keep up with my emotions and passions grrrrrrrrrr I hate it hate it.

Joan was at the Docs today - second time this week.
She now has another dose of antibiotics.
She is feeling better some. But the virus still needs attacking says the medical man.

I am going - my fingers are freezing - and I am not cold!

QUOTE::
"Did you know how beautiful you are"
Me and U2

Hey hey
Richard is back on the blog following the family trip to India - first visit home for three years.

What an experience it will have been
Episode 1 here.

Hippy
Sheilas

It was such a positive day yesterday.
But today the media drives the peg into the heart with back to the negatives.
They have such a massive influence on our lives.
TV, Web, Newspapers and Radio.
If we let them ......................................

Consider the contrast between what is left of Gaza?
Set against the affluence seen at the inauguration yesterday?
No homes to live in
set against a massively rich city.

I delight in the Obama election and Presidency.
The coverage was electric yesterday.
His address was inspiring and I wish him well.
His comments about the wider world gives me hope.
I am hope-full.

The contrast today is a change of emphasis.
The nitpicking begins.
The urge to fill 24 hours a day news
will dig out every crack to reveal a so called chasm.
We all have cracks,
that's how the light gets in.

Gaza aimed bombs have stopped.
The destruction remains.
The media has gone.
Rebuilding not 'action man' enough.
So we follow the action.

I will have faith in the beautiful imperfection man, Barack Obama.
He says he will make mistakes.
Not many tell us that we are beautiful imperfection.
When the media turns days into negatives
I believe we need to stand strong.
We need to realise that the word Politician
has been ridiculed, just like Vicar or Social Worker or Do Gooder.
Obama has inspired humans world wide.
We need inspiring leaders.
We have a role too.
Lives based on principles not media tsunamis.

I love this bit in his speech:

To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward,
based on mutual interest and mutual respect.
To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict,
or blame their society's ills on the West -
- know that your people will judge you on what you can build,
not what you destroy.

We need to reach out to those different than ourselves.
I love Muslims
the one I know
those I don't
they are beautiful humans.

It is easy to love the lovely
around the world
and around us.
We need to also love the unlovely.
We need to hold hands with those we don't want to.

I love this in the Obama speech:

To the people of poor nations,
we pledge to work alongside you to make your farms flourish
and let clean waters flow; to nourish starved bodies and feed hungry minds.
And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty,
we say we can no longer afford indifference to suffering outside our borders;
nor can we consume the world's resources without regard to effect.
For the world has changed, and we must change with it.

We need to hug the world.

We need to reach out to those around us
the world will get hugged in little streets
small communities
workplaces
community centres
homes - even.

I have not got the youth I had.
But I will give my all
living sacrifice -
I believe in this Bible challenge.
O Love that will not let me go ...............

Plea
to
Barack
OBAMA
PLEASE
TAKE
THE
RED
PILL

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GET ON YOUR BOOTS

The future needs a big kiss
Winds blows with a twist
Never seen a moon like this
Can you see it too?

Night is falling everywhere
Rockets at the fun fair
Satan loves a bomb scare
But he won’t scare you

Hey, sexy boots
Get on your boots, yeah

You free me from the dark dream
Candy floss ice cream
All our kids are screaming
But the ghosts aren’t real

Here’s where we gotta be
Love and community
Laughter is eternity
If joy is real

You don’t know how beautiful
You don’t know how beautiful you are
You don’t know, and you don’t get it, do you?
You don’t know how beautiful you are

That’s someone’s stuff they’re blowing up
We’re into growing up
Women of the future
Hold the big revelations

I got a submarine
You got gasoline
I don’t want to talk about wars between nations

Not right now

Hey sexy boots...
Get on your boots, yeah
Not right now
Bossy boots

You don’t know how beautiful
You don’t know how beautiful you are
You don’t know, and you don’t get it, do you?
You don’t know how beautiful you are

Hey sexy boots
I don’t want to talk about the wars between the nations
Sexy boots, yeah

Let me in the sound
Let me in the sound
Let me in the sound, sound
Let me in the sound, sound
Meet me in the sound

You are beautiful U2
Here you will find a video on my piPhone player just above
It is U2 at the inauguration concert for Obama and of course marking the special Martin Luther King Day today.
You can also hear the track 'get on your boots' the new U2 single.
If you keep tuning in here you will see some great video clips and audio track all to do with::
Justice/Faith/Development/Life/Art/Music and some U2 too!
So enjoy ...................

U2 - at Lincoln Memorial

18.01.2009

Get on your boots
do you like it?

'On this spot where we're standing, 46 years ago, Dr King had a dream.
On Tuesday, that dream comes to pass.'

U2 performed 'Pride' and 'City of Blinding LIghts' to an audience of 400,000 in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington.

U2 OBAMA CONCERT from Lincoln Memorial (Washington, 18th January 2009)