@tesseract Thank you so much for sharing your story and the wonderful clips from “Sister Act 2.” I’m smiling with tears running down my face.
@freya I cry (with joy) every time I watch the kids in the original and I've seen it a kazillian times over the ten years since Larry passed.
I also cried watching the reunion. The entire View episode was amazing. The things Whoopi did for these kids as they began their careers was eye-opening. Their love and respect for her came through with a power punch vibration. Spirit abounding. Her emotion at the end was powerful in a different way from the joy she exudes in the original. The film was acting, I know, but maybe, just a little not-acting as well and actually FEELING what "Sister Mary Clarence" was feeling. The reunion was layers upon layers of what I think of as "giving and receiving" are one motion. "Teaching and learning" are one motion. You can't do one without the other and the "one motion" was vibrant both in the original, and in the reunion. ❤️
https://youtu.be/p4dhIB4Ei6c?si=V0Sqga8Pb8aov2WA
Things Can Only Get Better
Song by D:Ream
You can walk my path, you can wear my shoes
Learn to talk like me and be an angel too
But maybe you ain't never gonna feel this way
You ain't never gonna know me, but I know you
I'm singing it now, things can only get better
Only get better
If we see it through
That means me and I mean you too
So teach me now that things can only get better
Only get, they only get, take it on from here
You know, I know that things can only get better
I sometimes lose myself in me
I lose track of time
And I can't see the woods for the trees
You set 'em alight
Burn the bridges as you've gone, I'm too weak to fight ya
I've got my personal hell to deal with
And then you say
"Walk my path, wear my shoes
Talk like that, I'll be an angel"
And things can only get better
Can only get better now I found you
(Things can only get, can only get)
Things can only get better
Can only get better now I found you and you and you
You have shown me prejudice and greed
And you've shown me how
I must learn to deal with this disease
I look at things now
In a different light than I did before
And I've found the cause and I think that you can be my cure
So teach me to walk your path, wear your shoes
Talk like that, I'll be an angel
And things can only get better
Can only get better now I found you
(Things can only get, can only get)
Things can only get better
Can only get better now I found you
Things can only get
Things can only get better
Can only get better now I found you
(Things can only get, can only get)
And you and you and you baby
Things can only get better
They can only get better now I found you
@tesseract Wise as always, tesseract. I'm aware that "teaching is learning." If more understood that simple fact the world would be an immensely better place. Glad you joined the Forum!
After I posted from my phone this morning in the Elections thread, I was scrolling through Instagram, which I use for music clips, mostly, and this popped up:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C62nF2vhi09/?igsh=aWoybXhoazkwbW1y
Loved it from the start and then Groban popped up in it! (HA! coincidence??? 😉 I think not!) wearing his FIND YOUR LIGHT (Groban's Foundation) t-shirt with one of the groups he funded. Then I went and found the YouTube of the entire production (2018?) from Playing4Change,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g4UWvcZn5U
Oh, and I have that t-shirt! 😀 I've been dancing, as I did chores, to the Everyday People YouTube all morning. & dancing is not as easy now as it once was, 🤣 but the body just would not sit still, so dance I did.
This YouTube is such a wonderful example of the Energy I now feel because of (and with) Kamala and the election.
@ana (Iridium) from your post on the election thread: I have to say that TRANSFIXED is the word I have looked for, for years, to describe my reaction at that first sight of Obama, of Mayor/Sec Pete, and how I felt the first note I heard from Josh's voice on Charlotte Church's CD as they sang The Prayer. Thanks for reminding me of it for these extraordinary, Lighted, moments.
Apparently I c/p an incorrect link to Find Your Light.org in the link in my post above.
Hopefully this one works https://fylf.org/ in case any folks here are interested in exploring the Foundation. They do great work keeping music, and the joy of learning, available for students across the country. ❤️
Cover of Leonard Cohen's Suzanne. Recorded in 1979 when I was 16. Please Enjoy :)