Circle of Light is on today, Friday, at 8 am PT/11 am ET. Also it is on next Monday, but I am doing another short vacay Wed and Friday, so will not be there, next Wed August 21 and Friday August 23.
During Circle we send healing to perpetrators of violence (after sending it to everyone in the world). And I often see in my mind, Putin's soldiers. I feel angels directing them to be with their families and get back to their live and I often think of this song, The General, in which a general calls his men together before battle, and says, "I've seen the others, and I've seen their mothers, and this fight is not worth fighting."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0O5fz-6vq8&list=TLPQMTkwODIwMjTHmgaKwibGow&index=2
I had never heard The General before your post. Thanks for sharing it @Jeanne-Mayell. What quiet but powerful song message.
@lovendures dispatch was a college group that without advertising or ever using a record company, they went viral. I have listened to all their songs a hundred times. The music industry was shocked when, seemingly out of nowhere, having never heard of them, they announced a concert at the Boston Hatch Shell and drew 110,000 people. One music reporter called them "The biggest band you have never heard of."
Another one that is WONDERFUL is about the lead singer/writer Chad's Umstad's time abroad experience in Zimbabwe. He wrote about the indigenous man he met during this year.
It's a beautiful song. "Elias" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM_NViIq_7g&list=PLN-5_AmwijMd7c75tLmldbfGMGHQSTeHQ&index=12
There is so much love in this song! I cry every time I listen to it.
Dispatch published their whole album for free.
From the Internet: Elias is a man from Zimbabwe who Chad Urmston, a member of Dispatch, met while visiting the country in 1994. Elias, along with his wife and two sons, Honest and Manuel, live in Sector 17, one of Zimbabwe's most heavily HIV/AIDS infected areas. Chad wrote the song about them after he left Zimbabwe. He promised to write letters to Elias, but import/export laws prevented the letters form getting to the family. Soon after he got word that Elias, Manuel and Honest are alive and well. Zimbabwe is one of the world's most heavily HIV/AIDS-infected countries in the world.
I bet @ghandigirl would like Dispatch. And @unk-p.
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The first three verses are in sung in Shona, a language spoken in Zimbabwe. The first part deals with friendship and means that when you're feeling bereft of hope, don't be afraid to lean on your friends to get you through. The second part is a typical greeting in Zimbabwe. "Coz e wah he" means "Are you strong?" The reply to this is, "I am strong if you are strong." And then the greater replies with, "I am strong."
I had never heard The General before your post. Thanks for sharing it @Jeanne-Mayell. What quiet but powerful song message.
I remember first hearing it in 2006, when we had to give individual presentations in a communications course where we each played a song for our classmates and then gave a speech analyzing the song's lyrics (I chose "First Date" by Blink182)
One of my classmates chose Dispatch's "The General" for his speech.
At the time, all I could think about when I heard "the others" was The Others from ABC's Lost (being a huge fan).
Reminder: No circle of Light tonight at 7 PM or Friday at 11 AM Eastern time. I will be back Monday morning at 10 AM Eastern time. I hope to see you then!
Friday Circles are now 10 am ET, just like Mondays.
So now Mon and Friday Circles are both at 10 am ET (7 am PT) and Wednesday Circles are still 7 pm ET.
Circle of Light schedule for Labor Day Week: Labor Day we are on. (10 am ET, 7 am PT)
Wednesday Sept 4 - NO CIRCLE (I am away)
FRIDAY SEPT 6- CIRCLE IS ON at 10 am ET (10 am ET is the new Friday time)
Circle is now Monday and Fridays at 10 am ET and Wednesdays at 7 pm ET.
Reminder: no Circle of Light today at 7 PM Eastern/4 PM Pacific
I will be back In two days for our Friday Circle of Light, which is now going to be at 10 AM Eastern 7 AM Pacific.
NEXT WEEK: There will be no Circle of Light all week as I will be away.
Circle of Light is ON tomorrow FRIDAY September 6 at 10 AM Eastern Time. Note the new Friday time is 10 am (no longer 11 am ET). 7 am PT.