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if you are sad or angry try skipping! you might just feel better! If can't skip then march with your

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i am a mystery.........mostly to myself. i am still figuring me out. BUT recently i have found that i enjoy kicking the fluffy dandelion seeds so that their joy may be spread all over the world. It has come to me that it is one of my life's purpose to be like the wind and spread the seeds of dandelions to fields all over.

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Monday, January 14, 2008MLK on JazzOn the Importance of Jazz Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Opening Address to the 1964 Berlin Jazz FestivalGod has wrought many things out of oppression. He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to create—and from this capacity has flowed the sweet songs of sorrow and joy that have allowed man to cope with his environment and many different situations.Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph.This is triumphant music.Modern jazz has continued in this tradition, singing the songs of a more complicated urban existence. When life itself offers no order and meaning, the musician creates an order and meaning from the sounds of the earth which flow through his instrument.It is no wonder that so much of the search for identity among American Negroes was championed by Jazz musicians. Long before the modern essayists and scholars wrote of racial identity as a problem for a multiracial world, musicians were returning to their roots to affirm that which was stirring within their souls.Much of the power of our Freedom Movement in the United States has come from this music. It has strengthened us with its sweet rhythms when courage began to fail. It has calmed us with its rich harmonies when spirits were down.And now, Jazz is exported to the world. For in the particular struggle of the Negro in America there is something akin to the universal struggle of modern man. Everybody has the Blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs for faith.In music, especially this broad category called Jazz, there is a stepping stone towards all of these. Farting Preacher
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no ordinary moments

woo hoooo! life is good! i am on such a high now! this past MGDC tour to berlin and of course ravello was an amazing transformative experience. i learned so much from all of the people i met in thes...
Posted by on Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:31:00 GMT

the workshop

The workshop Sacred Animals/Sacred Dance did not happen this time.  it was not the right time.  i believe that there will be a right time!  My friends David and Greta Carson, who organi...
Posted by on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:37:00 GMT

Sacred Animals/Sacred Dance workshop

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Posted by on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:25:00 GMT

look at my new photos!

i have new photos up- take a look.  see ya!
Posted by on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 15:30:00 GMT

fall

just pondering about fall...  i am walking onto my deck to my back yard and stop a moment to look at the maple tree in my yard.  it is shedding its leaves. all but a few remain.  t...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 15:24:00 GMT

nacho libre!!!!

hi ya'll- you got to see nacho libre!  it was so funny!  well, i am a jack black fan.  it was funny, touching, and had a good story line!  i couldn't stop smiling and laughing!&nbs...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Jul 2006 13:32:00 GMT

just getting it out

well, this week has been nothing but one syncronistic whirl!  everything that i have needed has come to me in some way. or it has always been there. all about transformation, acceptance, letting ...
Posted by on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 20:08:00 GMT

love

hi ya'll i love life!  just thought i'd say that since so many things we hear about in the news is negative - i guess we need that negative stuff too; to have balance.  everything is as it s...
Posted by on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:50:00 GMT

Visit Carrie Ellmore's Website

Here's my new website.  It is a work in progress. http://www.carrieellmore.com
Posted by on Sun, 05 Mar 2006 22:20:00 GMT