We Travel Together ~ Passengers On A Spaceship

We travel together,
passengers on a little spaceship,
dependent on its vulnerable supplies of air and soil...
preserved from annihilation only by the care,
the work, and I will say, the love, we give
our fragile craft.
Adlai Stevenson

♥ What Was Given ♥

Music and lyrics by Sandra Hammel

This is a call to love the planet ♡

 ~ It’s not ours

To hurt, hurt, kill, kill

Free to not care.

Why so hard to love what was given?

We could heal what we hurt,

hurt our Mother Nature.

This is our home

That we’re to share with other life.

Life, not death, to share, with creation.

Why so hard to love what was given?

Given to all life’s generations,

not just you,

you

and I.

Will our life, be the death

of what was given

to all creation?

This is a cry to love the planet ♡

 ~ It never was ours

to take, steal, hurt, kill,

destroy beauty.

Dona nobis pacem,

Pa-a-a-a-cem.

Do-na no-bis pacem.

Do-o-o-na, do-o-o-na, do-na nobis pacem.

Why so hard to love what was given?
We're just passing through.

♫ What Was Given ♫ by Sandra Hammel

❤ Music ♫ May 5 ~ July 1, 2016 ❤

❤ Lyrics ♫ October 2, 2017 ❤

I wrote the music first. Finally worked out the words. I wanted to record myself for the purpose of Mimi Lenox's annual Peace effort for November 4.  I recorded this late November 4th and didn't like the few efforts. But, here is one of those. It is not perfect. But neither is this world.  

 

300,000 pieces of space junk

After decades of using space for communication and defense, we’ve left it pretty polluted: there are now an estimated 300,000 pieces of space junk a centimeter or bigger in Earth’s orbit. Some are deactivated, decades-old satellites, but most are shards of metal — the result of rockets that exploded after use, or satellites that collided. Experts are worried that growing levels of space junk could make some orbits difficult or impossible to use, and space agencies are requiring satellite operators to be more careful with their equipment after it's decommissioned. Source

  Be brave.

Live out loud.

Let your light shine.

May Sound Unoriginal, But It's HOW I FEEL

I know this may sound unoriginal, but it is how I feel.  I love justice.  When I see justice denied, I am sick.  When I witness any justice win, no matter how small the act, my heart soars, higher than the height of any bird that takes to its wings.  My heart soars to be with the stars of the sky.  I take this as a human condition...that we all want justice.  Not just for ourselves.  But for each and every human being that breathes in oxygen and breathes out carbon dioxide. 

What if this is not true?  That each human being doesn’t want justice for every other human being?  I do see behaviors that apparently are jealous enough, power-hungry enough, greedy enough, spiteful enough - that the order of the day is to put someone down to lift themselves to some level of self-importance that sustains them one more moment.  

The ultimate measure of a man

is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, 

but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

                                                                           —Martin Luther King, Jr., 1929 - 1968

LEAVING a MARK ~ RELATIONSHIP GIFT

Each person in your life brings something. Many leave a mark that never goes away. It becomes a part of you. Even those that needed to leave your life, for you, for him, for....some reasons that finally made you realize fighting so hard to make it work, was not as life-worthy, as reasons that weighed in and made it known to you, that it had to end. Even though, you know this, it is still hard. And one day at a time, of just taking a step after a step, you get through the thicket of emotional stresses, that come with change. It's most likely a good human characteristic, that it is hard to say good bye, even though, it is the healthy, right thing to choose.  

 

A past one, that had to end, though I hung on trying so very hard to make it work, now, after 15 years of much necessary intertwined life, but not together - it feels so right. To be alone. Without him in my life. So happy I hung in there and made the separation work. But, the marks that are left linger on. And I am so grateful for the parts that became me. What becomes you, needs you to welcome it, accept it. Music is pretty much my life. But he introduced me to music, I didn't have in my experience, yet. Now, it is mine. Though, he is not a part of my daily life. ~ No love, no friendship Can cross the path of our destiny Without leaving some mark on it forever. Francois Mauriac

     

In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins

I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord
And I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh Lord
Can you feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord, oh Lord
Well if you told me you were drowning, I would not lend a hand
I've seen your face before my friend, but I don't know if you know who I am
Well I was there and I saw what you did, I saw it with my own two eyes
So you can wipe off that grin, I know where you've been
It's all been a pack of lies
And I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord
Well I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh Lord
I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord
Well I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh Lord, oh Lord
Well I remember, I remember, don't worry, how could I ever forget
It's the first time, the last time we ever met
But I know the reason why you keep your silence up, oh no you don't fool me
Well the hurt doesn't show, but the pain still grows
It's no stranger to you and me
I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord
Well been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh Lord
I can feel it in the air tonight, oh Lord, oh Lord
Well I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh Lord
I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord
And I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh Lord
I can feel it in the air tonight, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord
Well I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh Lord, oh Lord
I can feel it in the air tonight, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord
Well I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord.

  

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