Dream thought #118: Billie Holiday

 

The difficult I'll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.

- Billie Holiday 

Dream Thought #116: Everybody's got to be different

 

"Everyone's got to be different. You can't copy anybody and end up with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. And without feeling, whatever you do amounts to nothing."

- Billie Holiday

Dream Thought #69: Do it your own way

I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know. - Billie Holiday.

Strange Fruit

When I saw Lesley McSpadden cry in anguish over the grand jury's decision, I felt her pain deeply. For the Grace of The Divine, that could be me. Mike Brown could have been my son. 

Though lynching from trees may be more rare today, black people and other people of color are still being lynched in other ways. I acknowledge the ugliness of racism. I refuse to give into its bitter embrace.

 "Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger; anger leads to hate; hate leads to suffering." - Yoda.

Here is Lady Day singing