I heard Trump say "we'll own it just move out the Palestinians" and my heart erupted. Quickly I called on yoga breath techniques learned long ago, but as a journalist I couldn't stop following news, and this morning I could feel it was damaging my heart.
A sound came into my memory,
Pink singing Babe I'm Gonna Leave You like Led Zeppelin at the Fire Aid concert
last week. I tracked it down on YouTube and by the time she was halfway in, my
heart was beating fast in perfect rhythm like a healthy athlete. As she sang, tears
poured out as I thought about every person in the world seeing what Trump is
doing and realizing, you can never trust the USA again.
WATCH IT HERE
Since I was a teenager protesting
against our Vietnam war, I've had this passion for my country. I ended up working
at NASA and in the Naval Air Reserves because of that passion. But to be honest,
I left both places beginning to think, wow you really can't trust our
government….
I didn't even know who Pink
was except for pictures I'd see of her when she first appeared in the 2000s and
she seemed to be part of that cross gender thing that the kids were doing that
I didn't think was permanent. I've watched friends and family dive into every
New Thing since the 1950s, having grown up in L.A. I've see every New Thing, they usually last until the next New Thing and by my forties and
fifties, I'd stopped jumping on bandwagons. Now I see it was not just a New Thing.
I had no idea Pink was this
good. She's pure love and passion.
I watched her performance
this morning and the rush of relief she brought out all over my body and mind
was beyond therapy, it's pure art. Love on a guitar string.
I once told a sick old man
that even if you're stuck in a wheelchair not able to be physical, you can
still go outside and hear the wind, you can leave the problems of the world to
everyone else, you can still listen to music, even if you get so bad all you
can do is listen to music, it's still worth it to go on living.
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