Music, Videos, Poetry that Gets Us Through

@deetoo

I just watched that young man watching Rhapsody for the first time.  I love what he said slowly with so much feeling and awe, "This is music." 

@jeanne-mayell

(and for everyone)

OMG!!!!

You need to hear this song.  My 20 year old daughter just played it for me.  It dropped today from the group The 1975, a UK band.  She loves and follows this band.    It is spoken instrumental. piece, not a "typical " song.

THIS is our YOUTH!  They are SO enlightened.

OMG!!!  Unbelievable.  It is about climate change.   I am listening to it again as I type and I am crying.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWcfzAfuFyE

Dear Baltimore,  

  Just a note to remind you, that if the (p)Resident hates you, it is because he has first hated me.           signed,  America

https://youtu.be/jl7JH0Y8HF4

shout out to Deetoo, Cindy, Lisa,  and all of the other beautiful Baltimore babes!  If any of you know other great songs from your city, please lay them on us now!

@unk-p,  What a kind and loving thing to do ... thanks, hon!   It takes away some of the pain I was feeling about his vile comments.  (I'd also spent way too much time using  expletives this past week!)  I lived my first 30 years in Baltimore City -- don't live there now, but I'll always be a Baltimoreon at heart.   The John Waters' movie Hairspray (the original 1988 version) really captures the Baltimore where I grew up.

Here are some songs:

Raining in Baltimore (Counting Crows).  Sad song, but I love it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEnCxGh8kBg

Dancing in the Streets (Martha and the Vandellas) -- not specifically about Baltimore, although as a teen and young adult I'd anxiously wait for Baltimore to be mentioned in the song.  It makes me think of the grittiness and soul of the city:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdvITn5cAVc

Moscow Mitch by Mangy Fetlocks, The Quasi-Intellectual Existentialist Cowboy (a.k.a, Bruce W. Nelson):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK0HKRzVikk&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2JcZlnw3aC-mr6_kQ4V2RO26jWR28461v9e6aIP9gDSplDxncRUNntOhk

@lovendures

Thanks for posting that song. It is beautiful. The speaker sounds like Greta Thunberg, the Swedish child who spoke before the U.N. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWsM9-_zrKo

@jeanne-mayell

Yes, the speaker is Greta.  Such a beautiful soul.

This is a lovely story.  I hope you don't need a Washington Post subscription to access it:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2019/07/23/it-wasnt-his-job-description-metro-police-officer-escorts-mom-her-tantruming-autistic-child-home/

Here is a story about an 8-year old boy helping another little boy with autism.  Stories like that gives me hope for the future.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/8-year-old-boy-consoles-crying-classmate-with-autism-on-the-first-day-of-school/

This one is for a Mr. Mike Pense, of Doonbeg ,Ireland?   https://youtu.be/7TuSrLPMvpk