International Women’s Day 2012: Watch Us Stand Strong

Posted by Pamela Leavey on March 8, 2012

Today is International Women’s Day:

I wrote Watch Us Stand Strong in 1994. I’ve shared it here before but felt today was a good day to share it again:

Watch Us Stand Strong

Long have we walked
Through the valley of our sadness,
Searching for a way
To end all the madness.
Long have we toiled,
Silent and unnoticed,
Suppressing our knowledge
And our gift to heal the world.
We are large by number,
We are small through the ages,
There are few that have spoken,
Few that dare to read
Our pages.
We are mothers,
We are daughters,
We are sisters,
We are friends;
We contain the lifeblood,
And the passion
Of all the universe
In our souls.
We are women,
Full of knowledge,
And beauty;
The Queens of our planet.
We are home now,
Watch us stand strong,
It is time to heal
Our world.

Check here for 10 Ways to Celebrate International Women’s Day. I spent a good part of International Women’s Day outside in my yard enjoying to 70 degree day here on the river. A little time communing with the Great Mother Goddess is always balm to the soul.

Springsteen’s New Single: We Take Care Of Our Own (Video with Lyrics)

Posted by Pamela Leavey on January 19, 2012

** Cross posted from The Democratic Daily…

Bruce Springsteen’s new single “We Take Care Of Our Own,” off his upcoming CD, Wrecking Ball was released today.

ABC News notes, “judging from the names of the other tracks listed on the singers website — “This Depression,” “Easy Money,” and “Death to My Hometown” — Springsteen is once again wading in political waters and returning his focus to working-class issues.”

“We Take Care Of Our Own” is a hard hitting rocker, in true Springsteen / E Street Band style. As longtime readers here know, I am a big Springsteen fan and I have to say this new single simply blew me away musically and lyrically.

Watch the video debut here: Continue reading “Springsteen’s New Single: We Take Care Of Our Own (Video with Lyrics)” »

British Soul Singer Amy Winehouse, Dies at 27

Posted by Pamela Leavey on July 23, 2011

The so very troubled and talented Amy Winehouse is dead, at 27.

Amy Winehouse “found worldwide fame with a sassy, hip-hop-inflected take on retro soul, yet became a tabloid fixture as her problems with drugs and alcohol led to a strikingly public career collapse.” She was found dead today in her London apartment, the police said.

Although the cause of death is at this point “unknown,” the news of Winehouse’s death stunned me and made me feel a sense heartbreak that she had most likely lost her battle with drugs and alcohol. Continue reading “British Soul Singer Amy Winehouse, Dies at 27” »

If

Posted by Pamela Leavey on February 10, 2010

If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. — Kahlil Gibran

One Day

Posted by Pamela Leavey on October 20, 2009

One day soon I hope I’ll find more time to post here… until then:

Daily Inspiration: Thought, Word And Deed

Posted by Pamela Leavey on May 21, 2009

“The tools of creation are: thought, word and deed.” – Neale Donald Walsch – Conversations With God, Book 1